Two years ago, the Pinellas Sheriff's Office upgraded software for its fingerprint I-D technology.
Its cold case unit then revisited a violent kidnapping sexual assault that occured in 1987. Detectives ran latent fingerprints collected at that time and ran them through the high-tech system.
It identified one suspect--Russell Rogers, a now 58-year-old living in Mississippi. He's been arrested and awaits extradition to Pinellas County, accused of kidnapping a 22-year-old woman from a Seminole laundromat and attacking her in a wooded area of Pinellas County .
This arrest follows the arrest of a man last week who's charged with raping a woman in St. Pete 32 years ago, thanks to DNA technology that didn't exist at the time of the assault.
(Photo courtesy of the Pinellas Sheriff's Office)