Remember how I showed you that awesome cop-shaped air freshener that arrived in the mail this week? Well, today I went to write a post on WTD and noticed… IT’S GONE!
 
I was about to start combing the apartment. I mean, sometimes I misplace things. I could have lost it, right? But something caught my eye.
 
There was a glass next to my computer.
 
I did not leave that glass there.
 
Something was definitely rotten in the state of Illinois, and I was determined to find out what. This was no ordinary case of absent-mindedness—this was theft, through and through.
 
Watch the video below to learn how I caught the culprit.
 

 
Dusting for prints in the real crime world is a much more involved process than what I went through to find my missing cop air freshener. Take a look at these sites to see what the real cops do.
 
In the Digital Whorled
How the FBI classifies prints
The FBI Fingerprint Training Manual
The Fingerprint Society
 
Special thanks to forensic investigator Herb Keeller and Amy Campbell from the CPD for advising on this video.