Chapter 4Though some officers preferred to do things on their own, it quickly became apparent that PAT had a lot to offer when it came to our particular case. For one thing, after reviewing the file footage, PAT quickly solved the mystery of why each of the eyewitnesses had provided a different description to the sketch artist. To the casual eye, the perpetrators may have looked to be the same person, but a detailed analysis of video footage enabled PAT to estimate height and weight. She confirmed that each of the four robberies, despite having similar M.O.s, had indeed been perpetrated by a different person. But why? That was the question we chewed on as we sat in the conference room, studying the white board where we’d posted the images and jotted down conjectures and known facts. Fion

