Question

containing a blood - spattered jacket. the jacket was similar to one owned by beamish, but police couldnt devise a strong enough case to link him to the murder. then they discovered 27 white hairs clinging to the jacket.
close examination revealed that the hairs were from a cat. the hair, along with lingering suspicions about beamish, helped investigators make an important connection. beamish had been living with his parents, who owned a white cat named snowball. police wanted to compare snowball’s dna with dna from the hairs on the jacket. however, no canadian labs did dna testing on cats.
a lab in maryland agreed to test snowball’s blood and hair. the tests showed that the hair on the jacket was definitely snowball’s. with this evidence, a jury convicted beamish of murder. for the first time, animal dna evidence had put a criminal behind bars.
which of the following questions was not answered in the text?
a. what was the cat’s name? \tc. how was beamish related to the murdered woman?
b. where did this crime take place? \td. who discovered the body?

Explanation:

• Option a: The text mentions the cat's name is Snowball.
• Option b: The text mentions the crime took place in a location where a blood - spattered jacket was found (implied in the context of the police investigation, and later a lab in Maryland is mentioned, but the main crime location context is there).
• Option c: The text does not mention how Beamish was related to the murdered woman.
• Option d: The text does not mention who discovered the body.

Answer:

c. How was Beamish related to the murdered woman?
d. Who discovered the body?