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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 back. and he asked her if she had been assaulted. she said yes. >> she asked him to untie her. and he...

>> 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 i'd ever experienced. my first reaction was denial, that there's 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 man's 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 witness was the homeless man, willy bell. >> and that the only physic...

Inside the driver's 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 prints. >> let's just say houston had 500,000 prints. well, if you think everybody has ten fingers...

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 back. and he asked her if she had been assaulted. she said yes. >> she asked him to untie her. and he...

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 sister's 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 wasn't looking for sympathy. >> david could have had just about anybody in the state of texas work that case. i really considered it i guess a privilege when ...