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a polite name for refusing to believe the obvious explanation everyone else accepted.
means A formal, systematic effort to discover the facts about something — typically a crime, accident, or mystery — by gathering and examining evidence.
from From Latin investigare, "to track, trace out, search after," built from in- ("in, upon") plus vestigare ("to follow a trail"), which comes from vestigium — a footprint or track. So at its root, investigation is literally following footprints: the hunter reading the ground long before the detective read the room.
word originLatin vestigare, to track footprints
cold casesDNA databases solve crimes decades after the trail froze
slow burnmost breakthroughs come from tedium, not eureka moments
first detectivesFrance hired ex-criminals to catch criminals
the gapabsence of evidence becomes its own clue