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Comment author: komponisto 15 December 2009 04:54:23AM *  1 point [-]

What kind of X would suffice for you to let your detectives keep investigating?

Two examples that come to mind immediately:

-Similarly incriminating DNA from someone else in addition to the prime suspect.

-Information acquired from the prime suspect himself that points to accomplices.

Comment author: pete22 15 December 2009 05:10:23AM 0 points [-]

That's setting the bar pretty high. What about witnesses who claim to have seen two men running from the scene, or heard multiple voices at the time of the murder?

Comment author: Questor 16 December 2009 02:16:55AM 1 point [-]

those would be the witnesses that appeared months later and whose testimony is doubtful. The running feet and scream women's story cannot be true... a reenactment later showed them to be impossible and they were actually not sure if it was Halloween the night before when there would have been a lot more rowdy students around... And the eyewitness was also discredited.