Build a Suspect Profile

[glass rapids]

It would be cool if you could build a partial profile of a suspect yourself (input things like height, weight, age etc) and question people about it, just like the partial profiles you get from missions. This would help with cases like Lipstick Killers when the victim writes down information about their stalker without it going into your crime board. Where in The World Is Carmen Sandiago did a similar thing, it was part of your mission goal to get the entire profile correct.

[hollow terrace]

I don't mind this as an optional thing. But I like the automatic profile system as it is. You find info, it's automatically added to the profile. It's something I wish more detective games had.

[viscid pilot]

What if both the default automatic and the new manual system existed at the same time? Would greatly help in tricky cases in which you may have the killer's full name, useless fingerprint, but they are homeless and cannot be found in the database/directory.

[past arch]

Make any non-autofilled field editable?

That'd work nicely for details you're able to infer but the game can't make the connection, like when you find someone's code note written in their initials.