7. Robber Leaves Birth Certificate
Leaving behind a phone number is bad; modern CSI teams can find criminals from just a strand of hair, so you can imagine that they take a coffee break when the crook does the work for them. Not every officer can be as lucky as a few in Boston who tracked a criminal who left behind not only his birth certificate, but a letter addressed to him from his mother.
The criminal, in this case, was a purse snatcher and he got away—temporarily—with $40. The victim put up a fight though, and the opportunistic man dropped a bag of his own. The birth certificate inside identified him as Zachary Tentoni. When police contacted him, he claimed to be someone else but to no avail.
