David Eldrige's Killing

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Have you ever been wrong about something? Have you ever been mad or jealous when someone put all the pieces together and you didn't? Here's a chance to be right about something. David Eldrige killed Mr. Arms. He had all the keys and codes to make it into the restaurant. He also left his finger and footprints everywhere. There is no doubt that David Eldrige killed Mr. Arms. The restaurant door was opened with a key and the safe was unlocked. The police officer on the scene said that the restaurant was entered with a key and showed no signs of anything being broken into. Mr. Eldrige had been working there for many years, it makes sense that he was the only other person with a key. But he was also the only other person with the code to the safe, which was open and the recipe was gone. Mr. Eldrige was also in the restaurant at the time of the murder so could have easily entered the restaurant, killed Mr. Arms, and stolen the recipe from the safe. Now as I said before, the safe contains a …show more content…

Eldridge left fingerprints and footprints everywhere. When the body was found, there was a puddle of blood and grease around the body. Mr. Eldridge’s footprints were not found in the blood, but in the grease, the reason for that is simple. When the murder was fresh, the pool of blood couldn’t possibly be there, or at least not as big as it was at the time the body was found. So, Mr. Eldridge’s footprints were not in the blood puddle because there was no blood puddle for him to step in. Would you hang around a body you just murdered? I don't believe you would wait around long enough for there to be a puddle of blood to step into. But his footprints were in the grease around the body, which was there before the murder. Another place that Mr. Eldridge’s prints were, was the murder weapon, which was a metal spatula. Mr. Eldridge borrowed a metal spatula a while ago and never returned it. Mr. Eldridge left his fingerprints for us to find, making it obvious that he was the

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