1944) was walking to her job as a phone operator for Southwestern Bell, but never made it to the building.
When Bell came to look in the shack, he found the raped, dead body of Maxwell and immediately notified police.
A batch of forensics they had performed in 1969 was found by Houston police, who located James Ray Davis, a lifetime criminal.
[1][2] Davis was last convicted of kidnapping a young girl and was suspected to be the perpetrator of the Maxwell rape and murder.
Davis was convicted of first degree murder (the robbery, rape, and kidnapping statute of limitations had expired) shortly afterward, and was sentenced to life without parole.