I am a forensic scientist and my wife's earrings were found at the murder scene.
Surveillance showed that she was home alone at the time of the crime, but her earrings had "LW" - her initials - engraved on the inside.
In the police station, she cried to me about her injustice, but I noticed that her earlobes were not pierced.
"These earrings," I heard myself saying, "need to be pierced."
She suddenly laughed: "Dear, have you forgotten? Our daughter broke it three days ago."
The daughter's phone rang at this time: "Dad, last night I saw my mother put a pair of shiny things into your drawer..."