Flowers for Algernon is the title of a science fiction short story and a novel by American writer Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960.[2] The novel was published in 1966 and was joint winner of that year's Nebula Award for Best Novel (with Babel-17).
Because he knew Oedipus was the murderer.
I believe it is evidence, source, information?
I think it means that they were ready to prove it no matter what it took but not really sure since I haven’t read the whole story
