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| rdfs:comment | - Sometimes the absence of a thing is a vital clue. For example, the absence of fingerprints on an often-used item makes it clear that the item was cleaned. A tool missing from a set could well be the murder weapon. Can lead to a Conviction by Contradiction situation if poorly handled. Compare I Never Said It Was Poison, where someone incriminates themselves by mentioning details which were withheld from the public. Examples of Absence of Evidence include:
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| abstract | - Sometimes the absence of a thing is a vital clue. For example, the absence of fingerprints on an often-used item makes it clear that the item was cleaned. A tool missing from a set could well be the murder weapon. This is a real life area of detective work and, in fact, one of the harder ones. The lack of something is easy to miss. However you have to be careful. The lack of gunshot residue on a person's clothes for example does not mean that there was not a gun fired, it means that there is no residue from a gunshot. Lack of such residue on the glove that an eye witness saw the alleged firer use and then dump that is immediately picked up by the police might show that the event was staged however (as such evidence should have the residue and there is no way it might have been removed.). Can lead to a Conviction by Contradiction situation if poorly handled. Compare I Never Said It Was Poison, where someone incriminates themselves by mentioning details which were withheld from the public. Examples of Absence of Evidence include:
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