and the killer's fingerprints were missing, presumably misfiled in one of the thousands of open caseton police department. >> everybody at some point in time was looking for that case. so it wasn't like okay well we'll just do it in our spare time. somebody every day was looking for that case. >> i guarantee, they went through many, many files. a tremendous undertaking. >> debbie and i worked together for 11 years. rumor has it that she went to the director of the latent lab and told the director that sergeant ramsey was threatening an ied investigation if they never found that print. i never once said that. >> i respect authority, but i don't mind challenging authority. >> whatever happened, it got them off of dead center. and there were several people that were assigned to go through every hpd case looking for prints. >> after months of looking through all of the case files, someone finally found them. >> they just put it in the wrong file. you know, it was just a clerical error. >> of all the evidence lost, at least the fingerprints had been recovered. by this time, the year was 2