[cool_chick]

I was watching one of those crime solving shows last night. This girl was murdered in 1973, before DNA, when the best "list" was a phonebook. They tried to track a gun purchased in 1965 in Phoenix, but no luck.

They kept going back to this case through the years. DNA became available, the samples were preserved well so they were able to extract the DNA, they had databases of people now. They decided to look for the gun purchaser in the state of the murder (Michigan, before all they had were phonebooks, not so easy to look at every phonebook in the state.....)

Anyhoo, over 30 years later, they found the guy who purchased it. Was easier because they had an age range now. Happy that he was still alive. They asked him what happened to the gun. He couldn't remember. Months and months of him thinking, "what happened to that gun?" All the potential names came up dead. Then months later, he came up with another possibility, it turned up to be the murderer.

Long story, sorry, but I kept thinking....OMG, what if someone came up to me 30 years later to ask me what happened to some gun I bought 30 years later......it's funny....someone coming to your door after all that time to ask you if you can remember that kind of stuff.......

When my dad had his stroke in 1990, some time later, my mother sold one of his guns. I still can't remember who we sold it to...Wayne something.......