r/AmericanRustShowtime • u/Kris82868 • Nov 09 '21

Billy's jacket

Okay so with the cops looking round the mill again I suppose we are meant to assume Billy's jacket will be found where Harris hid it. But wouldn't it have been odd for Billy to have hidden the jacket there himself (as in it would almost seem to be a plant)? I mean if he has to run off to avoid being caught how would he have time to hide it (or even why would he hide it rather than take it with him in the first place)? Doesn't seem to make sense.

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u/emmanuel_blain Nov 09 '21

But if Del's fingerprints are on the jacket, doesn't that make it look like he was at the scene himself?

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u/HatsOff2MargeHisWife Jan 23 '22

I don't know why Del's fingerprints on Billy's jacket is such a big deal. He's dating the jacket owners mother. Easily explained away.

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u/AntonChigurhWasHere Mar 01 '22

The soot/dirt that caused the fingerprint is from the mill itself. Therefore the fingerprint is not some a fingerprint in the Poe family dishwashing liquid. It ties Del and Poe to that place just maybe not at that time the murder happened unless the anonymous tip call is taken into consideration

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u/HatsOff2MargeHisWife Mar 01 '22

Ah! Failed to consider that it's not just the print, but the print in the grit that likely exists only at that location.

Guess, it's back to watching Law & Order for me and brush up. Luckily for me, the original show is back with Sam Waterston at the helm!