This is becoming more and more cartoonish as it goes, but maybe that'll be a good thing... If the author couldn't think of something actually scary, we might at least get something wacky
“Without evidence we can’t help” logically I get that but other than breaking in and illegally acquiring materials/fingerprints idk why police expect a normal citizen to do that work since investigating is part of a policeman’s job too unless they can only do something if one gets a lot of complaints or so
But you’d think an ear being ripped off would also be a long term hospital stay