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>> reporter: it was on a caulking tube, and it matched someone, a window installer who worked for a company called hardy windows. >> he tells us, we never throw trash out at customers' homes. we always bring it back to hardy windows. >> reporter: where they found one dumpster no one had checked. the trash company, inadvertent, had left it off the list they gave the police. detective trapp looked inside. >> that same blue plastic wrapping, and it was almost like i was looking at the same trash i had seen on the conveyor belt. >> bingo. if not for that lucky fingerprint, they'd have missed it. w...

Fingerprint? >> yes. >> it was on a caulking tube and it matched someone, a window installer who worked for a company called hardy windows. >> he tells us we never throw trash out at customers' homes. we always bring it back to hardy windows. >> where they found one dumpster no one had checked. the trash company inadvertent had left it off the list they gave the police. detective trapp looked inside. >> that same blue plastic wrapping. and it was almost like i was looking at the same trash i had seen on the conveyor belt. >> bingo. and if not for that lucky fingerprint, they'd have missed it. ...

Caulking tube, and it matched someone. a window installer who worked for a company called "hardy windows." >> he tells us, "we never throw trash out at customers' homes. we always bring it back to hardy windows." >> reporter: where they found one dumpster no one had checked. the trash company, inadvertent, had left it off the list they gave the police. detective trapp looked inside. >> it's that same blue plastic wrapping, and it was almost like i was looking at the same trash i had seen on the conveyor belt. >> bingo. and if not for that lucky fingerprint, they'd have missed it. >> what was t...

>> reporter: eventually, she found the room where jerree had been staying, which with $700 in cash, mascara lipstick, contact lens solution, but nothing whatever to lead her to a suspect. not here, anyway. from the disposal companies, she got a list of the dumpsters the garbage trucks serviced that morning. then she and other officers went dumpster diving, hundreds of dumpsters. what would you be looking for? >> they were all given pictures of what the trash that looked like that was around her. if it looks similar, take pictures of what's inside. >> reporter: no luck. a waste of time. then ba...