committed after her murder. police also questioned the people who loitered in the downtown area. they were looking for a black male. they knew that from willie bell told them it was a black male that had been seen raping diane. they did get a few leads, but they didn t pan out. nothing pointed to the person that actually committed the offense. since the fatal wound was made with surgical precision, police also focused on health care workers as possible suspects. they just started dragging everyone, all the black males, downtown and had them fingerprinted. and they were doing some things that would not be accepted today. i thought that, honestly, that the person just slipped through the cracks. diane maxwell s murder started to look like a random homicide, the hardest kind to solve. everyone assigned to the homicide division at the time, they were like 30 detectives,