Bloody butcher

[NoStinkingBadgers]

I'm confused. Why if there is blood all over the ground and I find spent bullet shells by the blood, when I examine the body it says the victim died of poisoning? Then the fingerprints I find are "BB", which seems to stand for bloody butcher and makes me think that possibly I will have to connect it with an actual fingerprint which would probably be categorized by some other random letter according to when I found it.

[HeartClock]

Just a theory, but it's possible the victim was shot at first, but then poisoned? Or the blood and used shells are from a previous murder that happened at the same place?

Also, "BB" doesn't stand for "Bloody Butcher". A fingerprint is labelled as a letter or two based on when you found it the first time. It works alphabetically. So "BB" means it's the 54th unique fingerprint you've found since the start of your playthrough. The fact it matches the killer's alias is coincidental.

[Boner Salad]

In the victims apartment, there should be a syringe somewhere on the ground, or on the counter, with yellow/green goo around it. This is the method killers poison their victims in Shadows of Doubt.

The BB is purely coincidence. Fingerprint labels are assigned alphabetically.

[NoStinkingBadgers]

I ended up "solving" the one five (maybe more) cases later simply by getting there while the security door was still down and seeing the perp walk out as soon as it went up. All that canvassing was for nothing since there were no direct social connections between the first victim and the perp. I think the perp's partner might be a one too, but I don't have his prints on anything. Basically, the only evidence that mattered for me was identity, weapon, and the print on the weapon. So at least that much I had gathered from one of the earlier cases that carried forward ("cases" being times there were victims - I had to leave it in one case file since I hadn't solved it).

[HeartClock]

Originally posted by NoStinkingBadgers:

I ended up "solving" the one five (maybe more) cases later simply by getting there while the security door was still down and seeing the perp walk out as soon as it went up. All that canvassing was for nothing since there were no direct social connections between the first victim and the perp. I think the perp's partner might be a one too, but I don't have his prints on anything. Basically, the only evidence that mattered for me was identity, weapon, and the print on the weapon. So at least that much I had gathered from one of the earlier cases that carried forward ("cases" being times there were victims - I had to leave it in one case file since I hadn't solved it).

If the killer had no social connection with the first victim (i.e. not a friend/acquaintance nor a coworker), then it's possible you have missed some clues at the crime scene. The killer usually leaves some, so that the case is still solvable without the player having to catch them red-handed, or checking every single fingerprint in the entire city just to find a match.

By the way, you can also read the newspapers to see what clues you may have missed.