• JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
    771·
    16 hours ago

    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.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      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!”

    • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      52·
      6 hours ago

      i didn’t, i noted that the presence of prints on the notebook implies an effort to obtain fingerprints on things. the gun description is particularly good for collecting prints, and i know all sorts of random things could explain that otherwise… i do find it curious, however

    • Microw@lemm.ee
      25·
      14 hours ago

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

    • Supervivens@lemmy.world
      373·
      15 hours ago

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