#Several new evidence suggestions

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wintry laurel
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Blood:Here are a few things that could definitely add to the investigation. Silhouettes from blood splatters can reveal the killer's general body shape, it wouldn't have to be super detailed, just a few squares of blood on the wall/floor that our detective can piece together. Blood residue on weapons and clothes would make cameras more useful, and it would help identify the murder weapon, so you don't have to guess which of the 8 knives did the killer use. If you have the weapon used to kill the victim, it shouldn't be too hard to tell that it's the right one. Blood should also make people who have interacted with it leave distinct fingerprints and footprints. This would give us a good idea of the route the killer took, to help find fingerprints, or a likely method of entrance .

Timeline: This is super important for murder investigations. We should be able to ask people where they were at the time of the murder. Sometimes they should lie, either because they were doing something shady or because they murdered someone. This will help us figure out if someone is suspicious, because we can catch them lying.

Witnesses: Recently I had a case where a woman was murdered with a knife in front of her partner. When asked if the partner saw anything strange they responded with "I saw someone with glasses, they looked kinda angry, at 9 AM". They should at least be able to describe them better, with their outfit, height, skin color, hair color.

Psychology: killers should have their own motives. Sometimes revenge, sometimes money, sometimes they are just crazy. Currently, every killer acts basically the same, with a bit of flavor text thrown in. The stalker doesn't fawn over their victim. The corporate hitman doesn't tie you up in red tape. The psycho doesn't have a cruncher filled with pages of schizo text.

Currently, I feel like we reach dead ends way too often and end up just having to brute force check every person in the building for fingerprints and stuff like that.

kindred radish
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I should hope they add more evidence and tracking down... especially when they make NPC behavior more complex where you could have NPCs visit eachother for non murder related things (This adding more fingerprints to the mix). Making tracking down the killer make you use more of your skills.

Also would be amazing if you could actually put in more than just prints as 'evidence that they were at the murder location'
Things like camera footage, witness testimonies, ect. Multiple pieces of evidence together that show they were there.

winged snow
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One of the first cases I ever did I had a lot of bloody footprints at the scene so I was hoping I'd find bloody shoes at the killer's house and was a little disappointed that shoes can't have a "bloody" aspect in the evidence menu it's size only

kindred radish
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I swear I found bloody boots in a house... though they were just called boots but the souls of the boots were actually stained red

winged snow
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If there were more forensics options it would be cool to test blood at the crime scene and match it to blood on killer clothes or shoes to place him at the crime scene

lilac axle
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Some of this stuff has been brought up in other suggestions but I still agree with you. Psychology I think has something planned for this year's roadmap? I'm not entirely sure and there's not many details yet. However I like your theming about it. For timeline and witnesses, I think that just expanding the way the player can ask questions would help. I've mentioned a keyword/fill-in-the-blank system before, so you could ask "Where were [you] at [time]?" or "Did you see [person] between [x] and [y]?" And for murder weapons, absolutely, needs to be a way to place them at the scene so you're not guessing. At least there's no penalty for getting it wrong, but having to guess which knife in the drawer killed the victim is annoying.

short fjord
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I would suggest some ballistic, or forensic aspect, to make sure that's the exact weapon and maybe DNR or simply bloody clothes to have something more placing suspects at the scene