Chapter 839 - 780 Trust
Jiang Yuan took a figurine that was not lost in the home burglary case and first observed its form and structure.
It was a Saint Seiya figurine; as for which Saint Seiya, that was beyond him due to his age. The key point was that there were no Saint Seiya figurines on the list of stolen items from the burglaries. So, this figurine was related to a different case.
More specifically, the figurine might carry the fingerprints of another thief.
Of course, thieves nowadays certainly wear gloves when stealing items, but once they steal something and begin the dealing process, they hardly ever wear gloves.
Especially for items that have already made it into the receivers’ pockets, everyone tends to consider them their own property and nobody cares about fingerprints.
On the other hand, once the figurine gets back into the home of the receiver of stolen goods, proving its origin becomes a troublesome matter. Whether it’s professional receivers or those who moonlight as receivers on second-hand trading platforms, they tend to spruce up an item before selling it, cleaning it here, washing it there, or even putting it in a box, which is all possible.
By that time, catching people through the stolen goods is less efficient than doing so through WeChat contacts.
Moreover, lifting fingerprints from irregularly shaped objects like action figures poses certain difficulties.
Firstly, its curvature is significant, which complicates taking a complete photograph, and secondly, applying fingerprint powder doesn’t result in even coverage, and the imprint left by a suspect’s fingers might not even be complete. Naturally, the quality of such fingerprints would be somewhat inferior.
Of course, these are all issues for criminal investigators below Level 1 expertise in fingerprint analysis; for Jiang Yuan, slightly altered fingerprints merely added to the intrigue.