

Police lifted fingerprints from the stolen Honda in 1982, but the prints did not identify anyone at the time.Įarlier this year, the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab determined that blood from Rutherford’s kitchen submitted to the lab in April belonged to an unknown male, court records said. But in October 2020, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office Forensic Unit told Spokane police they had a match to a fingerprint recovered from Rutherford’s car, which was stolen and discovered in downtown Spokane hours after Rutherford was found dead. Police made no arrests in the four decades following Rutherford’s death. Spokane Police Department detectives and Los Angeles Police Department officers arrested 62-year-old Tracy S. Fingerprint and DNA evidence led authorities last month to arrest the suspected killer of Archie Rutherford, who was slain 40 years ago in his South Hill home, according to court documents.
