• JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
      972·
      2 months 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.

      • Supervivens@lemmy.world
        484·
        2 months ago

        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·
          2 months ago

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

      • Microw@lemm.ee
        301·
        2 months ago

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

      • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        2 months 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!”

    • bignate31@lemmy.world
      203·
      2 months ago

      Let me get this straight. You think somebody else wiped down the fingerprints on the gun, shot him, and then stuck his finger on the trigger without thinking about creating any fingerprints? Does seem like someone half-assed the wrong step of that operation…

    • parody@lemmings.world
      174·
      2 months ago

      like by threatening his family

      Exactly. Boeing investors/management maybe didn’t kill anybody. They simply asked him if he loved $familyMember1 ($age, $location, $bestFriend), $familyMember2 ($age, $location…)…