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Every time I want to leave these genealogy threads I run into a case that seems to involve investigative incompetence again. In this one, a football coach in 1981 raped and strangled the mother of one of his players. The cops got DNA and prints off of the window that he used to enter. The DNA was virtually useless then and the prints did not come back to anyone in the system. However, this guy was arrested in 1984 in an unrelated case and printed. The problem was that nobody checked the prints until recently. Even when cases go cold you have to check prints every couple of years to see if the guy got entered into the system. Genealogy finally got him but he had all these years of freedom. At least Florida is a death penalty state. All that was required of this police department was to have a list of their most serious cold cases that needed to have prints and later DNA to be checked annually for system hits. It's not rocket science.