A serial killer was loose and investigators had no leads until an alert investigator saw

something no one else had seen.

A possible fingerprint on the victim's skin.

The problem was how to collect it.

Texas City, Texas is one of the largest oil refinery sites in America.

The oil business is labor intensive, which poses its own unique set of problems.

We have a large population of contract workers that come in from out of state.

All over the country come in to work at the refinery.

And it greatly impacts the community, the police department, from all facets, traffic and

crime and things like that.

That became all too clear on May 16, 2001.

Just after dawn in the marshland south of the city, municipal workers made a gruesome

discovery.

They found the bodies of two young women on the edge of a dirt road, about 120 feet apart.

The first girl that we came upon was nude, except for her shoes, was bound and bloody.

The second one was bloody nude.

The victim's clothing was scattered near their bodies.

The contents of their purses had been strewn about the scene.

Forensic investigators estimated they had been dead for less than six hours, making the

time of death some time around midnight.

When you saw the first body, the first victim lying there, you could feel the anger that

was carried out that day.

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