In 2010, 77-year-old Myrna Estep was asleep in her home when an intruder busted in through a basement window, later leaving the house with $20 and shattering her peace of mind. She died five years later.
“The last thing you expect is to receive a phone call in the middle of the night from your mother telling you she’s been raped...You always think this doesn’t happen to you. It doesn’t happen to your family,” said Vickie Peck, Estep's daughter.
The intruder wasn't identified until Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Andrea Knight was asked to take a look at the cold case before retiring after 35 years at the sheriff’s office.
In the case files, Knight found a note and a fingerprint comparison form that mentioned similarities between the fingerprints taken from the Estep scene and two other unsolved burglaries.
Evidence pointed to the fingerprints originating from the same source. After running them through a database, Knight found a match linked to a traffic citation for an exp...
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