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Forum Name: more and more JBR
Topic ID: 2141
Message ID: 20
#20, RE: And Yet Another Pubic Hair Case
Posted by Mikie on Feb-17-04 at 03:28 PM
In response to message #19
LAST EDITED ON Feb-17-04 AT 05:08 PM (EST)
 
Douglas says: "Unfortunately, you often need more than one case to determine what the signature is. You don't know if there's a pattern by looking at a single case."

Perhaps "pattern" is just as good a word as "signature", although pattern gives no suggestion that it is linked to one suspect.

Like Rainsong suggests, 25 people can be found in an area with duct tape on their mouths and Rainsong doesn't think it is a signature; (maybe the definition of signature is not clear enough for any two people to agree about it completely); but it is obviously a "pattern". One can only think of it as a signature if one knows for certain that the duct tape was applied edit (by only) one person.

So the pubic hair is, in my opinion, a "signature", and that is strictly my own opinion and not Rainsong's nor Don Bradley's. I don't think anyone can say it is or is not a signature unless they know for certain how it got there. But on the other hand they can say whatever they want whether it makes sense or not.