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>> he said, ive never, ever seen that car. well, thats strange. thats a red mustang. youve never seen a red mustang? then i pulled out a picture of diane that david had given me and i handed it to him. but he wouldnt take the picture. i tried to hand it to him, he wouldnt take it. >> davis initially denied any involvement. but when told of the fingerprint evidence, he confessed. >> im sorry that it happened. and ive cried and ive prayed what i did wrong. >> he had been out of prison five days wh...

Elderly at the time. and so i know that was an impetus. but i think it was just an ongoing impetus. >> so at the age of 37, david maxwell was accepted into the oldest and most exclusive law enforcement agency in north america, the texas rangers, an elite group with only 134 members. >> i thought about it a great deal, that if i became in law enforcement, if i was able to eventually get into the texas rangers and it remained unsolved, that i would be able to reopen the case and eventually solve i...

Run the unidentified prints found in his sisters car. at the time, they actually had to be traced. >> we dont do that anymore. but years ago, the traced image we just had better luck with the tracing than the direct -- the image just wasnt as clear as it is now. >> unfortunately, there was no match. >> i began to think that maybe he was dead, because i couldnt imagine that you would commit that type of crime, which was probably random, and never commit it again. >> and the case turned cold again...

By this time his father was close to 90 years old, and time was running short. >> and he would tell me that he would dream of seeing diane. and thats all he thought about. he said, thats all i can think about is diane and this case being solved. i want to know who killed her before i die. >> with nowhere else to go, david turned to his friend, jim ramsey, a veteran homicide >> with nowhere else to go, david turned to his friend, jim ramsey, a veteran homicide investigator with the houston police...

Further analytics are necessary. beam us up. ♪ thats my phone. hey. [ female announcer ] the x1 entertainment operating system, only from xfinity. tv and internet together like never before. for more than 30 years, david maxwell was haunted by his sisters murder and still hoped to find some way to solve it. >> he had been successful in solving a lot of very complicated crimes, and i know that this was really important to him to try to solve this crime. because of course this was very persona...

Police policy, someone had sold them to the british crime magazine "master detective" in 1971. when contacted, the publisher no longer had the pictures or negatives. all they had left was a single copy of the magazine. >> i asked them to send it to me because i didnt have any pictures of the crime scene. and they were hesitant to do that because that was their only copy. so i asked them to please, you know, make copies of the photographs. >> the photocopies of the magazine pages were virtually u...

>> with all the evidence gone, david now had to tell his father that the case might never be solved. ♪

Impetus. but i think it was just an ongoing impetus. >> so at the age of 37, david maxwell was accepted into the oldest and most exclusive law enforcement agency in north america, the texas rangers, an elite group with only 134 members. >> i thought about it a great deal, that if i became in law enforcement, if i was able to eventually get into the texas rangers and it remained unsolved, that i would be able to reopen the case and eventually solve it. >> and by this time, the houston police depa...

>> i knew that she had been attacked and murdered. and i never really asked for any other details, just because i didnt think i could really deal with it. >> the last thanksgiving we spent together, diane had gotten me off to the side and said, you know, david, if something happens to me, i want you to raise my son. and i said okay, well, i will. and that was less than a month before she was killed. >> more than 20 of dianes co-workers at the phone company quit their jobs. many of those who rema...

Before i die. >> with nowhere else to go, david turned to his friend, jim ramsey, a veteran homicide investigator with the houston police department. the two had known each other for years, but david never told jim about his sisters murder. >> i was shocked. i was amazed that anyone could hold that in and not talk about it. but if anyone could do it it would be david. >> i saw no need to tell people about what had happened in my life. i wasnt looking for sympathy. >> david could have had just ab...