how to find a person with only fingerprints?

[RileyX]

whats everyones strategy to find a person with only having the fingerprints?

[naruKo]

Originally posted by Zalugar:

Same as above, broke into every business and licked all the employee files. I also just randomly ask people I don't know their name and prints. Steal it if they refuse too much. Can also check scan each individual mailbox.

But if all you have is a fingerprint, there's probably a better method to do it. Like often the perp is a coworker or lives in the same building (although my most recent murder had absolutely no connection anywhere).

Best bet is checking the black market sales records if it's a gun, or pawn shops sales records if it's not a gun. Stole a gun from a killer, let him kill again, and it turned out he bought the same exact model from the same guy in order to kill again.

where can i find black market ？

[Punchmeat]

If you know where they live start scanning doors for their print

[Saint Maurice]

Side jobs that only give you fingerprints to go off of, right click the fingerprints and select "pin all connections". This will bring up all evidence cards. The game seems to bug out when you first open the briefcase (for me this was the situation) and not give you everything in the briefcase or something, pin all connections on the few evidence cards that do show up will populate the screen with the rest of them.

[Kyle]

the connections show up in the profile of the unknown citizen, it just doesn't spawn their cards cuz it's already there in one neat profile

always 3 clues, just have to look through the pages

[Axe]

The job i got is about a psycho killing some unemployed woman in a basement apartmetns. No camera footage, no phone book, no coworkers. The only clue is a fingerprint on a paper knife and blackmarket guy from the same basement saying that he have seen some fat dude at about the same time as murder happened. Blackmaket guy fingerprints are not the one i found on a knife, so i'm stuck here

[C.L.A.Y.]

Originally posted by RileyX:

whats everyones strategy to find a person with only having the fingerprints?

There's one way that I like to do it. There was a Murder and I didn't find out what the murder weapon was. But I found a Fingerprint on a Card, Fingerprint G.
So I checked out the Workplace of the dead person. It was an office building, so I scanned every table and found the fingerprint. Then, I just looked on the desk to see what name there was, typed it into the computer, and got a full Work Paper of the Murder/Person, where she lives, Number, etc.

Visited her Home, found even more Fingerprints and well, it was the right murder

[RileyX]

Originally posted by Hacker Boy:

Originally posted by RileyX:

whats everyones strategy to find a person with only having the fingerprints?

There's one way that I like to do it. There was a Murder and I didn't find out what the murder weapon was. But I found a Fingerprint on a Card, Fingerprint G.
So I checked out the Workplace of the dead person. It was an office building, so I scanned every table and found the fingerprint. Then, I just looked on the desk to see what name there was, typed it into the computer, and got a full Work Paper of the Murder/Person, where she lives, Number, etc.

Visited her Home, found even more Fingerprints and well, it was the right murder

well thats easy, but I mean for those side missions where you only been given the fingerprint and no card of any additional info. so youre in the city with a fingerprint... thats it ^^ if youre not creating a city-wide database of fingerprints then its gonna be a long search.

[C.L.A.Y.]

Originally posted by RileyX:

Originally posted by Hacker Boy:

There's one way that I like to do it. There was a Murder and I didn't find out what the murder weapon was. But I found a Fingerprint on a Card, Fingerprint G.
So I checked out the Workplace of the dead person. It was an office building, so I scanned every table and found the fingerprint. Then, I just looked on the desk to see what name there was, typed it into the computer, and got a full Work Paper of the Murder/Person, where she lives, Number, etc.

Visited her Home, found even more Fingerprints and well, it was the right murder

well thats easy, but I mean for those side missions where you only been given the fingerprint and no card of any additional info. so youre in the city with a fingerprint... thats it ^^ if youre not creating a city-wide database of fingerprints then its gonna be a long search.

Thats a thing? Woah, didnt know that. Thats gonna be difficult then

[Sky Wizard]

typically fingerprints are for confirming you got the right guy. I mean you could scan every apartment door in the city until you find one with the right fingerprint, but I have better ways of spending my time. Such as counting how many hairs I have on my arm.

[Spuz]

I've never ran into this scenario, myself. I've always found that knocking on doors of neighbours to the murder victims would give me enough information that I could get a photo from security cameras. Once you have the photo, you go back to ask the neighbours if they know that person. If they don't, you can start asking around town to people if they know the person, and you're bound to find someone who does or get leads as to where they might be.

That aside, if you're looking to brute-force it, you can always just get all citizen fingerprints from the government computer.

When all else fails, just keep the case on your back burner, and eventually you might just come across the fingerprint you're looking for while solving other cases.

[FatalException]

You should never have "only a fingerprint". Though you might not be able to find anything else. For murders you can just ask around. Chances are the victim frequented a place the murderer frequents as well. In the worst case, you can just wait for the next body to drop...

For side jobs, the key usually is investigating the person who hired you in the first place. Even with the dead drop suitcases you should have at least a phone number and maybe prints on the suitcase to trace.
The target is always someone the client came into contact with so they are usually found either in their adress book, or at the clients or their parterns workplaces.

It's always worth it to pay any client meeting you in person for their name, because this streamlines the process of finding their home address.

[Isabelle]

Originally posted by Corinthas:

Yeah just started a post where like the majority of the jobs are just not feasible based n the RNG starting info.

a fingerprint is 100% identifiable information

[Cy@n1de]

I'm getting cases that cannot be solved, they have literally nothing to start. Kidnapping, every single one, there is no way to solve it without paying, or cheating by loading old save, and coming to the place, and maybe placing bug on victim to find him/her. No fingerprints, no camera recordings, no nothing! Dammit.
Also - imma so tired to look for fingerprints everywhere, they are the only way to find killer, and for that i have to break into all workplaces, looking in police computers by names. Everything else are not working. Today i had case where killer erased all cctv footage, no calls from him cause now i'm on 1 prestige lvl. The only working clue - fingerprints, i managed to get there before police, before they ruine crime scene with their fingers, but still - without photo, unemployed victim, neibors don't want to talk, and no connections, just fingers and 14 sized footsteps, it's almost nothing. So yeah, found him anfter second murder, but were unable to arrest him. Damn i hate cases like this one!!