• JayDee
    962·
    10 个月前

    You’ve misread the passive language here. ‘no prints were recovered’ can mean that they tried to find prints and couldn’t, or that they never even bothered to try getting prints off the gun.

    • Supervivens@lemmy.world
      484·
      10 个月前

      It could also mean no print were recovered other than his obviously which they may have just not bothered to mention

      • TheYojimbo@lemmy.world
        181·
        10 个月前

        Yeah that’s the obvious answer here, his finger was on the gun so his prints were there too…

    • Microw@lemm.ee
      301·
      10 个月前

      Also, people need to understand that not everything you touch will 100% have your fingerprints.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      10 个月前

      I’ll admit, this irks me in mystery shows. Those don’t seem like something you’d reliably get.

      “Sir, just as you predicted, we found the kitchen knife in the third drainage grate of the northern side of the city sewage system, wrapped loosely in five layers of cheesecloth, wadded with human waste. And, we’ve performed a DNA and fingerprint analysis on the handle. The prints perfectly match your suspect, sir!”