In 1978, Carroll Bonnet was stabbed to death in his apartment. Police collected evidence, including latent fingerprints and palmprints from the victim’s bathroom (officers believed the killer was trying to wash off blood and other evidence before leaving the apartment). The victim’s car was then stolen.
The car was found in Illinois, but after collecting additional latent prints, investigators couldn’t develop any new leads. The crime scene evidence was processed, and latent prints recovered from the scene and the car were searched against local and state fingerprint files. Investigators also sent fingerprint requests to agencies outside Nebraska, but no matches were returned and the case soon went cold.
http://coldcaseusa.blogspot.ca/2011/08/dna-reopens-1978-carroll-bonnet-murder.html?m=1
I chose this article because I found it interesting that no one could figure out who the culprit was until looking back at the case and matching fingerprints with already convicted felons.
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