[100 Challenge] DanJi’s reading note_33

The empty chair
Jeffery Deaver
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 13 NOV, 2008

A detective who had been a senior to the NYPD came to mind. He had preached to his juniors, "Who said, 'Fish out of water?'" To which the young cop Lime replied, "It means out of action. I'm confused." The older half-white cop snapped back to Lime, "Hmm, what if the fish gets out of the water? I'm not confused. I'm dying. The biggest threat to investigators is their ignorance of their surroundings. Remember that." Tom began pulling up the van and getting off his wheelchair. Lime blew Storm Arro's straw controller, rolling toward the steep ramp of the county office, which must have reluctantly added to the building after the Disabled Persons Act went into effect.
"Nothing else?" When a criminal kills a person and kidnaps a person, there's always enough evidence to film who did something to whom and what each character has been doing in the past 24 hours. There seemed to be two enemy soldiers: an insect boy, and the incompetence of law enforcement. Lime made eye contact with Sax, and Sax felt the same way
Lime carefully observed. As a law scientist, he knew the importance of soil. The soil was attached to his clothes, and like the breadcrumbs of "Hansel and Gretel", it left a footprint each time the criminal left and went in and out of the house, linking the criminal with the crime scene as if they were tied together. There are about 1,100 colors of soil, and if the sample from the crime scene is the same color as the soil in the criminal's backyard, it is highly likely that the criminal was at the crime scene. Similarities in their constituents also serve as a link. The great French criminologist Rocard advocated a law of identification named after him, which argued that in all crime scenes, substances were always exchanged between criminals and victims or crime scenes. Lime knew from experience that soil was the second most frequently exchanged substance after blood in homicides or assaults.
But the problem with soil as evidence is that it is too common. For soil to have any meaning legally and scientifically, it must be proved that the soil that may have fallen from the criminal is different from the original soil at the crime scene. The first step in soil analysis is to compare the soil that was originally at the scene with the soil that was thought to have come from the criminal. When Lime explained this to Ben, he picked up a bag of soil that Sax had written down the date and time of collection and which he had written "Sample-Blackwaterlanding." Some records were not in Sax's handwriting. "Secretary J. Cone Collection." Lime noticed a young deputy, who was asked to do by Sax, running out of excitement to get the dirt. Ben spilled the dirt on top of his third subscription card.