Pretty sad. Maybe they can get prints off of them but probably hundreds of prints there if indeed prints are still readable this long out in the environment. Probably not high prioirty for the law anyway...Maybe the bad guys left something else for indentfication.
Reminds me of story from a number of years back. SD's big rifle deer seasons are in the middle of Nov. through early Dec. We have to tag the animal with a sticky tag with name and address onto the leg. They don't unpeel. When you get done butching you just throw that lower part of the leg away that has the tag. This one guy hung his deer in the garage (field dressed off course but unskinned) and was going to get around to cutting the critter up. Well, he never did. Come spring, he wasn't too inclined (although if it had gotten cold quick and froze and then he skinned it out right after it thawed and cut the air/freeze burned areas away--not much if the hide is still on--it probably would have been fine to eat). But he didn't do this. Instead, he decided to ditch it somewhere out in the country byt probably not too far out of town. The grand thinker never cut off his tag (with his name and address on it) from the deer leg. The state came knocking with a ticket of "wanton watse'-- a nice little fine
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