note. Appellant's App. p. 2795. An expert for Allen also testified that it was "very unlikely that Mr. Allen ... was responsible for writing any portion of the questioned bloodied note." Other witnesses, however, acknowledged that portions of the writing on the note looked like Allen's handwriting.
Additionally, the police compared 198 footprints lifted from the crime scene with Allen's shoes, but there were no matches. Fingerprints had also been lifted from the service doors. Of the 237 "lifts" that were made, it was determined that seventy-four fingerprints and thirty-three palm prints were "of value." Tr. p. 315. Two of the fingerprints matched Allen's, and a partial palm print found on the doors' crash bar matched Allen's. An FBI analyst testified that he could not state with any certaintywhether the prints had been there for "five months, five minutes or five years." Appellant's App. p. 2836, 2837-38. Additionally, the State offered no evidence of fingerprints found on the safe, the iron bar or the front doors of the store. It was concluded *356 that the iron bar, which took some two hands to lift, had to be removed in order to exit the receiving doors.
Further investigation revealed that on the morning of August 25, Jody Rannells left her home in Walkerton for a 9:00 a.m. hair appointment in Mishawaka. Her residence is located approximately twenty miles south of South Bend. She stopped at her bank shortly before 8:00 a.m., conducted her business, and left. Shortly thereafter, at about 8:17 a.m., Rannells observed another car fast approaching