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Author: lakingsif

Nov 6th 2017 at 1:59:57 PM

Change title to Physically Could Not Do It; change content to:

The detectives are checking every suspect, leaving no stone unturned. One stone they turn acts suspicious and has no alibi.

But wait, he couldn't have done it. He's not physically capable.

Maybe he is completely disabled, maybe he is otherwise incapacitated or injured so as to be unable to perform such activity as the crime featured, or perhaps he simply was in recovery from a previous injury at the time. Either way, he's probably innocent.

Of course, it's possible he had someone else do the dirty work for him. It's also possible he is [[ObfuscatingDisability only pretending to be disabled]].

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* In ''Literature/AlexCross'' novel ''Cross the Line'', Cross and Sampson question former Navy Seal Nick Condon about a number of motorcycle drive by shootings, targeting unsafe drivers. He tells them that a quick look at his medical history will prove he can not shoot a pistol from a motorcycle, and shows them his wrist braces and the scars beneath them. His chaplain clarifies that Condon injured his wrists resulting in his discharge, he is an excellent rifle shot but couldn't hold a pistol.

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* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'':
** In the season one episode "Flight Risk", Holmes and Watson investigate a plane crash. After determining one of the victims was dead before even boarding the plane, they look into a man who was seen in a photo arguing with the victim outside of the hanger, who Watson notes has an insulin pump. When they speak to this man, they determine by the way he fumbles around with his pill bottle that he is not capable of beating a man to death.
** In the season two episode "Dead Clade Walking", Holmes and Watson investigate a death related to a fossil that would prove the theory that dinosaurs survived the K-T meteor impace. Holmes rounds up skeptics of this theory, and asks them for DNA samples. A match turns out to be a wheelchair bound man named Andrew Donnelly. Gregson is skeptical how this is possible, and the man is further exonerated by his lawyer providing an air tight alibi. Bell is able to collect a sample of the only man who refused. Turns out the real killer is the museum curator Holmes and Watson talked to earlier, who co-authored a book with Donnelly, and they both had used the tool that was the murder weapon.
** In the season two episode "The Many Mouths of Aaron Colville" Holmes and Watson look into a number of bite related deaths, with teeth marks that match that of a killer who died in prison. After determining that this is because the killer's teeth were a model for the dentures, they investigate the dental assistant named Divac, a sex offender taking chemical castration. Watson determines his innocence by noting that a mirror was shattered at the crime scene and the blood was not the victims. If this had happened to Divac his bones, brittle from the treatment, would have shattered.
** In the season four episode "Ready or Not" Holmes and Watson look into a missing doctor named Vincent, who they determine was a survivalist renting space in a doomsday bunker, run by a former Marine named Ronnie Wright. When they visit the bunker, Holmes determines that the bunker is an ill prepared fraud, and finds a bloodstain belonging to Vincent. Ronnie Wright admits to disposing of the body, but claims he couldn't have killed him, because a bad rotator cuff prevents him from swinging a weapon overhead. He admits that he was injured while on his high school swim team, and that he was [[PhonyVeteran unable to enlist in the marines]].