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* Done several times on ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and its spinoffs:
** In ''Series/CSIMiami'', the team discovered a missing child's location by traces of a plant found ''only'' in a specific area of the Everglades.
** On ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' a suspect was caught due to sand from a specific island in the Pacific which the suspect had imported to donate to a prestigious pre-school in order to increase the chances of his son getting in.
** Subversion: ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' played a long game with this trope in the fourth season. In the season's first few episodes, a lot of cases were solved using {{GPS Evidence}}. However, in "One Wedding And A Funeral," Stella finds tree bark at a crime scene. She locates the only furniture store in New York that uses wood from that tree, and lo and behold there's someone with a record who works there. But wait! He didn't do anything! The tree bark was actually a clue left by Mac's stalker, intended to lead him to the Tribune Tower in Chicago.
** And of course the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' season five finale, "Grave Danger," when Grissom, Entomologist Extraordinaire, determines Nick's location from the ants in his box since fire ants can only be found in wet fertile soil, which in the Nevada desert means plant nurseries; combining it with the known radius of how far Nick could have gone and the fact the kidnapper's relatives own one, they're able to pin down the spot to send the search and rescue.
** ''Series/{{CSI}}'' used this in a remarkably literal sense in the episode "Fracked." GPS data from a car and cell phone played important parts in the investigation of the title case.
** In ''Series/CSIMiami'', the team discovered a missing child's location by traces of a plant found ''only'' in a specific area of the Everglades.
** On ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' a suspect was caught due to sand from a specific island in the Pacific which the suspect had imported to donate to a prestigious pre-school in order to increase the chances of his son getting in.
** Subversion: ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' played a long game with this trope in the fourth season. In the season's first few episodes, a lot of cases were solved using {{GPS Evidence}}. However, in "One Wedding And A Funeral," Stella finds tree bark at a crime scene. She locates the only furniture store in New York that uses wood from that tree, and lo and behold there's someone with a record who works there. But wait! He didn't do anything! The tree bark was actually a clue left by Mac's stalker, intended to lead him to the Tribune Tower in Chicago.
** And of course the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' season five finale, "Grave Danger," when Grissom, Entomologist Extraordinaire, determines Nick's location from the ants in his box since fire ants can only be found in wet fertile soil, which in the Nevada desert means plant nurseries; combining it with the known radius of how far Nick could have gone and the fact the kidnapper's relatives own one, they're able to pin down the spot to send the search and rescue.
** ''Series/{{CSI}}'' used this in a remarkably literal sense in the episode "Fracked." GPS data from a car and cell phone played important parts in the investigation of the title case.
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* Done several times on ''Series/{{CSI}}'' ''Franchise/CSIVerse'':
** ''Series/{{CSI}}'':
*** The season five finale, "Grave Danger," when Grissom, Entomologist Extraordinaire, determines Nick's location from the ants in his box since fire ants can only be found in wet fertile soil, which in the Nevada desert means plant nurseries; combining it with the known radius of how far Nick could have gone andits spinoffs:
the fact the kidnapper's relatives own one, they're able to pin down the spot to send the search and rescue.
*** "Fracked" uses this in a remarkably literal sense. GPS data from a car and cell phone play important parts in the investigation of the title case.
** ''Series/CSIMiami'': In''Series/CSIMiami'', one episode, the team discovered discovers a missing child's location by traces of a plant found ''only'' in a specific area of the Everglades.
**On ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' a ''Series/{{CSINY}}'':
*** "[[Recap/CSINYS02E05 Dancing with the Fishes]]": One suspectwas is caught due to sand from a specific Hawaiian island in the Pacific which the suspect had imported to donate to a prestigious pre-school in order to increase the chances of his son getting in.
** Subversion: ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' played a long game with this trope *** Subverted in the fourth season. In the season's first few episodes, a lot of cases were solved using {{GPS Evidence}}. However, in "One "[[Recap/CSINYS04E09 One Wedding And A Funeral," and a Funeral]]" where Stella finds tree bark at a crime scene. She locates the only furniture store in New York that uses wood from that tree, and lo and behold there's someone with a record who works there. But wait! He didn't do anything! The tree bark was actually a clue left by Mac's stalker, intended to lead him to the Tribune Tower in Chicago.
** And of course the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' season five finale, "Grave Danger," when Grissom, Entomologist Extraordinaire, determines Nick's location from the ants in his box since fire ants can only be found in wet fertile soil, which in the Nevada desert means plant nurseries; combining it with the known radius of how far Nick could have gone and the fact the kidnapper's relatives own one, they're able to pin down the spot to send the search and rescue.
** ''Series/{{CSI}}'' used this in a remarkably literal sense in the episode "Fracked." GPS data from a car and cell phone played important parts in the investigation of the title case.Chicago.
** ''Series/{{CSI}}'':
*** The season five finale, "Grave Danger," when Grissom, Entomologist Extraordinaire, determines Nick's location from the ants in his box since fire ants can only be found in wet fertile soil, which in the Nevada desert means plant nurseries; combining it with the known radius of how far Nick could have gone and
*** "Fracked" uses this in a remarkably literal sense. GPS data from a car and cell phone play important parts in the investigation of the title case.
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*** "[[Recap/CSINYS02E05 Dancing with the Fishes]]": One suspect
** And of course the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' season five finale, "Grave Danger," when Grissom, Entomologist Extraordinaire, determines Nick's location from the ants in his box since fire ants can only be found in wet fertile soil, which in the Nevada desert means plant nurseries; combining it with the known radius of how far Nick could have gone and the fact the kidnapper's relatives own one, they're able to pin down the spot to send the search and rescue.
** ''Series/{{CSI}}'' used this in a remarkably literal sense in the episode "Fracked." GPS data from a car and cell phone played important parts in the investigation of the title case.
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* Spoofed in ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'' in the chapter depicting the eponymous heroes' first meeting in 1929. Superboy uses his microscopic vision to analyze a crate for clues while Robin (Bruce Wayne) says that they can track the sender using Superboy's findings. At this point, Lois Lane names the crate's exact point of origin... by reading it off the shipping label.
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* Spoofed in ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'' in the chapter depicting the eponymous heroes' first meeting in 1929. Superboy uses his microscopic vision to analyze a crate for clues while Robin (Bruce Wayne) says that they can track the sender using Superboy's findings. At this point, Lois Lane names the crate's exact point of origin... [[SherlockCanRead by reading it off the shipping label.label]].
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* ''{{Series/Arrow}}'' just ''loves'' this trope. Apparently it's super popular for villains in Starling/Star City to hide in abandoned factories that used to be dedicated to manufacturing an exclusive chemical formula that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world.
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* ''{{Series/Arrow}}'' ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' just ''loves'' this trope. Apparently Apparently, it's super popular for villains in Starling/Star City to hide in abandoned factories that used to be dedicated to manufacturing an exclusive chemical formula that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world.
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** In the earlier days of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fandom, a troll started a coordinated bullying campaign against the author of ''Blog/AskPrincessMolestia'', and later fans of the show in general for "[[NoTrueScotsman not being 'proper' fans like she was]]". When said campaign went too far, and one of its followers attempted to have a naturalized citizen ''deported'' in response to his wife criticizing said campaign[[note]][[https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/hmshr6/my_little_pony_battle_of_the_sexes_or_how_to/ this really happened]]; said person won a $50,000 settlement from the person who made the bogus call to ICE[[/note]], 4Chan retaliated by doxxing the troll who started it by using photos on her blog to narrow down the city she was in and then comparing selfies she took in her backyard to images taken from Google Satellite to ''geolocate her home address and post it online''.
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** In the earlier days of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fandom, a troll {{troll}} started a coordinated bullying campaign against the author of ''Blog/AskPrincessMolestia'', and later fans of the show in general for "[[NoTrueScotsman not being 'proper' fans like she was]]". When said campaign went too far, and one of its followers attempted to have a naturalized citizen ''deported'' in response to his wife criticizing said campaign[[note]][[https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/hmshr6/my_little_pony_battle_of_the_sexes_or_how_to/ this really happened]]; said person won a $50,000 settlement from the person who made the bogus call to ICE[[/note]], 4Chan retaliated by doxxing the troll who started it by using photos on her blog to narrow down the city she was in and then comparing selfies she took in her backyard to images taken from Google Satellite to ''geolocate her home address and post it online''.
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** On another occasion, 4chan users managed to pin down the coordinates of a terrorist training camp in southern Aleppo, UsefulNotes/{{Syria}} [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/4dfwdg/4chan_users_coordinate_an_airstrike_on_syrian/ and coordinated with a Russian journalist to successfully arrange an airstrike on the location]] using a combination of Google Maps and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard footage from one of their own recruitment videos]].
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** On another occasion, 4chan users managed to pin down the coordinates of a terrorist training camp in southern Aleppo, UsefulNotes/{{Syria}} and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/4dfwdg/4chan_users_coordinate_an_airstrike_on_syrian/ and coordinated with a Russian journalist to successfully arrange an airstrike on the location]] using a combination of Google Maps and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard footage from one of their own recruitment videos]].
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* ''Franchise/StarWars Episode II: Film/AttackOfTheClones'' has a perfectly sensible example, as pinpointing which planet a rare weapon came from is quite a lot easier than most of the examples here.
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* ''Franchise/StarWars Episode II: Film/AttackOfTheClones'' has a perfectly sensible example, as pinpointing which planet a rare weapon came from is quite a lot easier than most of the examples here.
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* ''Franchise/StarWars Episode II: Film/AttackOfTheClones'' has a perfectly sensible example, as pinpointing which planet a rare weapon came from is quite a lot easier than most of the examples here.it seems.
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** In "Mr. Monk and the Paperboy", Monk comes across an article in the newspaper about an unrelated murder in Paris where a woman who worked as a curator at the Bastille Prison Museum was found dead with her hands severed. Monk then calls the Paris police and tells them the murderer was her husband. Both he and the victim, his wife, were curators of the Bastille Prison Museum, and he used an old pair of handcuffs from the collection to bind her while he strangled her to death. However, he lost the key to the cuffs, and it would be ungodly obvious to the police who had killed her if her body was found with them still on, which was why he had to cut off her hands.
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* In ''Film/TheKingsMan'', Oxford is able to find the Shepherd's hideout when he takes a cashmere scarf worn by the captured Mata Hari to the Kingsmen tailors, who identify the wool as coming from a rare breed of goat only found in a specific region of Scotland.
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* In ''Film/ForceOfNatureTheDry2'', the nest of fruit bats the women disturbed allow Aaron and Ian to work out which of of the dozens of possible valleys they had actually entered.
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* In ''Film/ForceOfNatureTheDry2'', the nest of fruit bats the women disturbed allow Aaron and Ian to work out which of of the dozens of possible valleys they had actually entered.
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* In the Bond parody ''Film/OurManFlint'', Flint is able to track [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Galaxy]] to Marseilles through trace quantities of garlic, saffron and paprika left on a dart used by a Galaxy agent in a ratio that he somehow knows is only used in bouillabaisse, and only in restaurants in Marseilles.
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* ''K is for Killing'' by Daniel Easterman. A spy is forced to kill an American police officer after landing by submarine in the United States. He throws up afterwards, and an analysis of the stomach contents shows that he was drinking ersatz coffee shortly beforehand, then only used in Europe.
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* ''K is for Killing'' by Daniel Easterman. A During World War 2 a spy is forced to kill an American police officer after landing by submarine in the United States. He throws up afterwards, and an analysis of the stomach contents shows that he was drinking ersatz coffee shortly beforehand, then only used in Europe.
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* ''{{Series/Arrow}}'' just ''loves'' this trope. Apparently it's super popular between villains in Starling/Star City to hide in abandoned factories that used to be dedicated to manufacturing an exclusive chemical formula that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world.
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* ''{{Series/Arrow}}'' just ''loves'' this trope. Apparently it's super popular between for villains in Starling/Star City to hide in abandoned factories that used to be dedicated to manufacturing an exclusive chemical formula that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world.
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* One bit of an episode of the docu-series ''Extreme Forensics'' had investigators trying to bust a guy's alibi that he was in Ohio with his brother, while he was murdering his wife in Bakersfield, California. Desperate, because the rental car he had been driving had been washed of much evidence, they turned to trying to identify bug bits that had been caught in the radiator and found a grasshopper leg that was unique to a species in the Sierra Nevada region. Subverted: it didn't break the case but it did show he was lying about where he was.
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* One bit of an episode of the docu-series ''Extreme Forensics'' had investigators trying to bust a guy's alibi that he was in Ohio with his brother, while he was murdering [[PaterFamilicide his wife (and her mother and their three children)]] in Bakersfield, California. Desperate, because the rental car he had been driving had been washed of much evidence, they turned to trying to identify bug bits that had been caught in the radiator and found a grasshopper leg that was unique to a species in the Sierra Nevada region. Subverted: it didn't break the case but it did show he was lying about where he was.
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* ''Fanfic/TriptychContinuum'': In ''Glimmer'', one of the oddities about Lynchpin's corpse is a specific kind of rash caused by exposure to the oils of the flamethorn tree, which only grows wild in a few countries in Menajeria's southern hemisphere.
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* ''Fanfic/TriptychContinuum'': In ''Glimmer'', one of the oddities about Lynchpin's corpse is a specific kind of rash caused by exposure to the oils of the flamethorn tree, which only grows wild in a few countries in Menajeria's southern hemisphere.
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* Subverted in one episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}''. The victims of the week both have traces of water containing diatoms (single-celled organisms). The forensic tech promises that they can identify the water source, and Castle and Beckett get her to test the water from a single fish tank. [[spoiler: It's not it. Turns out, the water was from the ''harbor''.]]
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* Subverted in one episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}''.''Series/{{Castle|2009}}''. The victims of the week both have traces of water containing diatoms (single-celled organisms). The forensic tech promises that they can identify the water source, and Castle and Beckett get her to test the water from a single fish tank. [[spoiler: It's not it. Turns out, the water was from the ''harbor''.]]
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* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' where a special piece of evidence clues Mater into the identity of the BigBad. [[spoiler:After the Lemons bolt a bomb into his air filter to try and kill [=McQueen=], he gets a EurekaMoment after Guido fails to remove the bomb since they used an old brand of bolts which have an unconventional size that don't match many common tools, Mater realises that these were the same brand of bolts used by the Lemons' leader which combined with his oil-leaking incident in Japan, leads him to correctly deduce it's Sir Miles Axelrod after he threatens to blow both of them up unless he disarms the bomb.]]
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** In "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E19JustUsJusticeDucks Just Us Justice Ducks, Part 1]]", Darkwing deduces the location of Negaduck's hideout from a single bread crumb left at the crime scene -- [[FailedASpotCheck completely failing to notice]] [[FunnyBackgroundEvent the building in the background currently raising a giant flag with Negaduck's face on it]]. As the page quote says, Negaduck planted the crumb there on purpose because he knew Darkwing wouldn't notice the flag.
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** In "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E19JustUsJusticeDucks Just Us Justice Ducks, Part 1]]", Darkwing deduces the location of Negaduck's hideout from a single bread crumb left at the crime scene -- [[FailedASpotCheck completely failing to notice]] [[FunnyBackgroundEvent the building in the background currently raising a giant flag with Negaduck's face on it]]. As the page quote says, Negaduck planted the crumb there on purpose because he knew Darkwing wouldn't notice the flag.
