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Old Criminal History
The site of the homicide is vicious and bloody. No evidence is found except fingerprints left on the victim.
Later Detective Lance Jones tells his partner Carl that AFIS found a match to the bloody fingerprints left at the crime scene. The homicide is so violently over the top that Carl is sure the perpetrator has to be a young healthy muscular male.
Carl is surprised when Lance tells him the suspect is an older male.
“Did you say the suspect is sixty-four years old?” asks Carl.
“Well, he was in 1942 the last time he was arrested,” Lance replies.
From Guest Contributor Denny E. Marshall
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