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taking it with him—leaving no visible trace it ever had been there.This time, in his haste, it looked like he forgot to do that. Detective Farley could now go back to the other crime scenes with a trace evidence specialist who worked in the lab with Makayla. Although the bandages wouldn’t be over the peepholes at other crime scenes, they might find traces of the adhesive itself on the doors, which would suggest a pattern. Band-Aid adhesive wasn’t a common thing to find on peepholes, after all. Weeks later, Makayla’s theory proved correct. The adhesive turned up at other crime scenes, and a tiny piece of DNA was found on one door. Later, when a suspect was arrested, the DNA matched. Science—and good detective work—came through to solve the crime.

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