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Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes

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How to Tell if a Gun Was Fired From a Cartridge Cartridge

The only real piece at the scene of physical evidence, one is a cartridge of the gun. It doesn't sound like they retrieved bullets. Are you sure these are spent cartridge cases versus hole rounds? Well, they call them cartridge cases. And maybe they're wrong because it was a revolver. Okay. So that's interesting. That's why you're here. Yeah, so I would say if he had a revolver and you have unfired rounds that have dropped out, it's possible maybe he had something like that in his pocket as extra rounds. Mm-hmm. If it's a round that has not been fired, there's a greater likelihood of being able to get fingerprints

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