28 Years

The detective then discovered that Layne hadn’t checked in at the motel. In fact, the room card was connected to a man named Samuel Reeves. The FBI’s Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) matched Reeve’s print found on the beer cans and he entered a plea of voluntary manslaughter. He was sentenced to six years in prison after.

Diane Maxwell Jackson

In Christmas of 1969, a young telephone operator from Houston, Diane Jackson, was abducted from the parking lot, then raped, strangled, and stabbed to death. Police found a fingerprint, but back then, it led them nowhere. In 1989, Diane’s brother, now a Texas ranger, decided to look into the case once more. Again, not much happened.