The car is held for examination for two more days, and then is returned to the owner. All personnel involved now have their work cut out for them, doing reams of paperwork to complete the case. Reports, court briefs, evidence lists, lab submission reports, and crime scene logs all have to be completed for examination by the Prosecuting Attorney's office. Dried evidence has to be properly labeled and stored, and evidence going to the crime lab has to be packaged and delivered, ensuring that the continuity of the evidence is never broken. The whereabouts of the evidence must be tracked at all times.
Some evidence is examined in house, before being stored.
The next day the Prosecutor decides that there is sufficient preliminary evidence to charge the suspect with murder. The additional shell missing leads to a re-examination of the crime scene for the extra slug, but it is never found. They are unable to lift fingerprints off of the gun using their laser, but do match the blood from the suspect's pants to the victim, using DNA coding. The owner of the car gives a statement that the suspect was in possession of the car at the time of the murder, and had spoken frequently about how he should kill his estranged wife. The origin of the gun itself remains a mystery, as no records of it are ever found.