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Latent Prints Identify Suspect Within Hours (This story appeared in the Aug. `95 issue of the Quarterly Newsletter for the NEC AFIS Users Group) Los Angeles, California On May 25, 1995, at the request of the Pasadena Police Department, three crime scene investigators responded to the murder scene of an 82 year old woman. The prominent Pasadena resident had been stabbed to death during the commission of a burglary. During the investigation, Bill Leo from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Scientific Services Bureau, obtained latent prints from the point of entry. The latent prints were immediately transported to Scientific Services Bureau where they were traced and entered into Cal--ID by Reynaldo Clara. Bill Leo then did a comparison which resulted in the identification of the suspect (James Edgar Williamson, Jr.), a step--grandson of the victim. Detectives were notified while still conducting the crime scene investigation. An arrest warrant was obtained, and after releasing suspect information to the news media, Williamson turned himself in at a fire station in Orange County.
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