Bobby's Fingerprints

[Sarah]

I always used to be fascinated by how Bobby dusted off his fingerprints from various weapons, bugs and other equipment he came into contact with when he was up to something he shouldn't have been.

Does this actually work, or did it only free him of any wrongdoing as there was no DNA testing back then???

He made it look so easy.

 

[Richard Channing]

I think Bobby watched too much TV.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

I think Bobby watched too much TV.

Yeah far too much Petrocelli and Perry Mason!

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

Yeah far too much Petrocelli and Perry Mason!

Bobby watched some much Petrocelli and Donna watched so much Man From Atlantis that when they ran into each other in The Outsiders, they mistakenly thought they’d been in college together!

 

[DallasFanForever]

Does this actually work, or did it only free him of any wrongdoing as there was no DNA testing back then???

It does work. And in the pre-DNA era it was enough to get away with a crime. Even if it didn’t erase ur fingerprints completely it would at the very least smudge them and make them harder to identify.

But I always found it funny how in the the case of the guilty ones they would wipe down the gun but never open it up and wipe down the bullets. Common sense would say if you’re the one that loaded the gun and there’s still a bullet left in it then you’d want to erase the prints off of that too.

 

[tommie]

It does work. And in the pre-DNA era it was enough to get away with a crime. Even if it didn’t erase ur fingerprints completely it would at the very least smudge them and make them harder to identify.

But I always found it funny how in the the case of the guilty ones they would wipe down the gun but never open it up and wipe down the bullets. Common sense would say if you’re the one that loaded the gun and there’s still a bullet left in it then you’d want to erase the prints off of that too.

I'd assume that a bullet is too small to leave an identifiable finger print on.

Honestly, it's harder to lift finger prints than it is depicted on various shows - I know interior of a car is actually not great for lifting prints from which is why they usually don't even bother. It's all very much dependent on the surface being clear enough + the fact that we don't always leave prints, even more rarely identifiable ones. One smudge and it might be obscured enough to not be viable for identification.

 

[Billy Wall]

I think Bobby watched too much TV.

Bobby did make a Barnaby Jones joke once. Lol