• ephrin@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Depends how long they’ve been dead. After a while it’s pretty impossible to tell one corpse from another, it would be easy to fake the identity of the witness.

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      2 months ago

      I hope someone is writing this novel already, but there’s definitely some gold in a story featuring witness tampering and faking DNA signatures for recently deceased witnesses to take the stand.

      I’m out of Dresden Files novels, so this would definitely scratch my urban fantasy/magipunk itch.