So, last night

[james_davis_nicoll]

The constable took away with him a beer can left by my door-kicker. Apparently they can do DNA testing on quite trivial cases (which if true I had no idea) and if the guy who left the can is in the system, they can show he was on my porch and go chat with him. Not 100% useful because it doesn't link them to my door but apparently there's some history of people spontaneously incriminating themselves in conversations.

I just actually looked at the door instead of the door jam. I bet the absolutely perfect bootprint on the door could link the owner of the boot to the door.

[update]

The forensic guy said it was an exceptionally clean, crisp boot print.

Comments

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Did they look for fingerprints on the paint gun? Although I suppose there might be too many sets of fingerprints.

(I've never had a break-in. These days, when the weather lets me out, I'm only out about six or eight hours a week. But even before I got sick, I never had a b&e.)

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Wasn't necessary as the guy left a swath of chaos that left a trail of eye witnesses and ended with his savage beating at the hands of the cops.