“No problem,” he muttered, opening File Explorer. “It’s got to be in the default folder.”
He clicked through the usual haunts. Documents ? No. Pictures ? A folder of vacation photos, but no snips. Downloads ? Just driver updates.
But on a drizzly Tuesday afternoon, the truth played a trick on him.
Detective Arthur Vance was a man who appreciated hard evidence. In his twenty years on the force, he’d learned that the most convincing witness was often a silent image—a frozen moment in time. That’s why he loved the Snipping Tool on his Windows 10 workstation. It was swift, precise, and seemed to capture the truth with a simple click and drag.