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To follow a trail of footprints until they confess.
means To examine something carefully and systematically to discover facts, causes, or the truth behind it.
from From Latin investigare, to track or trace out, built on vestigium, footprint — literally to follow the prints.
Same rootVestige shares investigate's footprint ancestor.
Hunter's wordRomans used it for tracking prey.
Detective fuelThe job is reading footprints nobody else noticed.