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To examine diane maxwells clothing. >> if we could do the dna for the sexual assault and to get that and put it into the database, because now all the offenders as they go to prison theyre taking dna samples. and were getting a lot of cold hits on the dna database. >> but dianes clothing was gone. to their shock and dismay, it had been thrown away. >> over a period of years, i guess folks in the property room just had to make room for new property coming in. >> next, ramsey tried to interview th...

A single mother of a 4-year-old son. >> well, i will tell you that it was the most devastating thing id ever experienced. my first reaction was denial, that theres no way that, you know, diane could be dead. >> in a search for evidence, police scoured the wooden shack. among the debris, they found a rumpled pink blanket and a mans gray suit coat. >> it had been used as a storeroom for a service station. and everything imaginable was in there from service manuals to old oil cans. >> the only witn...

Police also questioned the people who loitered in the downtown area. >> they were looking for a black male. they knew that from willy bell told them it was a black male raping diane. >> they got a few leads but they didnt 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 t...

T-shift, the next day went back over it, and was successful in getting i would say 12 or 15 identifiable latent prints, very good prints. and many of them looked fresh. >> the prints, three partial fingerprints and a partial palm print, did not match those of the witness, willy bell, and he was eliminated as a suspect. in 1969, before computers, someone had to literally compare a print visually to all the ones in the houston crime files. and there were millions of prints. >> lets just say housto...

Virtually empty. diane worked for the southwestern bell company, and her shift started at 1:00 p.m. but she never made it inside the building. a half hour later, a homeless man saw someone walking away from an old shack next to the parking lot. >> he walked back to the shack and walked very close to him and got a good look at him and went on to the shack. and he found this young girl lying on her back with her hands tide behind her back. and he asked her if she had been assaulted. she said yes. ...

Parking lot in houston, texas. it was sunday, and downtown was virtually empty. diane worked for the southwestern bell company, and her shift started at 1:00 p.m. but she never made it inside the building. a half hour later, a homeless man saw someone walking away from an old shack next to the parking lot. >> he walked back to the shack and walked very close to him and got a good look at him and went on to the shack. and he found this young girl lying on her back with her hands tide behind her b...

>> diane was just 25 years old, a single mother of a 4-year-old son. >> well, i will tell you that it was the most devastating thing id ever experienced. my first reaction was denial, that theres no way that, you know, diane could be dead. >> in a search for evidence, police scoured the wooden shack. among the debris, they found a rumpled pink blanket and a mans gray suit coat. >> it had been used as a storeroom for a service station. and everything imaginable was in there from service manuals t...

Inside the drivers door and the t-shift, the next day went back over it, and was successful in getting i would say 12 or 15 identifiable latent prints, very good prints. and many of them looked fresh. >> the prints, three partial fingerprints and a partial palm print, did not match those of the witness, willy bell, and he was eliminated as a suspect. in 1969, before computers, someone had to literally compare a print visually to all the ones in the houston crime files. and there were millions of...

Parking lot in houston, texas. it was sunday, and downtown was virtually empty. diane worked for the southwestern bell company, and her shift started at 1:00 p.m. but she never made it inside the building. a half hour later, a homeless man saw someone walking away from an old shack next to the parking lot. >> he walked back to the shack and walked very close to him and got a good look at him and went on to the shack. and he found this young girl lying on her back with her hands tide behind her b...

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...