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UNIDENTIFIED FINGERPRINT FOUND AT SCENE OF CRIME |
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The original fingerprint examination of 5 Buffs Lane revealed forty-five sets of impressions.
Thirty-four sets of fingerprints were identified as belonging to people with legitimate access to the house.
John's fingerprints were not found, but ten of the impressions contained insufficient detail for positive identification.
The remaining fingerprint has never been identified. It was found on the inside of the bedroom window frame below the transom window with the tip pointing downwards.
In the opinion of the police fingerprint expert a person standing in the bedroom placed it there.
When Mrs. Bolshaw's body was found the transom window, which was in the ground floor bedroom, was open.
Mrs. Bolshaw was very security conscious, and the window had to have been opened some time after she returned home from work on the 8th October. The position of the fingerprint indicates that the person it belonged to had pushed the bar of the window in order to open it. Who, then, does this fingerprint belong to and why has that person never come forward or been identified?
