On August 1, 2005, police in Kennewick, Washington, found 17-year-old Danielle Moreno and her 52-year-old mother, Linda Moreno, each fatally shot in the head after a 911 call from Danielle reporting a domestic disturbance. Danielle was a Southridge High School senior; Linda’s husband Lorenzo Moreno was at work at a fertilizer plant at the time.

Initial inquiry focused on Danielle’s 18-year-old boyfriend, Cameron O’Shea Jones, who was questioned and arrested on an unrelated warrant; he had prior juvenile contacts for firearm possession and domestic violence assault but was not immediately charged in the killings. Investigators later pursued James Moran, a man wanted for the prior-year murders of his own in-laws in Kennewick. Moran had been arrested in Portland on a drug charge before the Moreno shootings but was released after fingerprint database links to his outstanding homicide warrant were missed. Three days after the Morenos were found, Moran died by suicide following a police chase in Clark County; authorities considered him a strong suspect.

Loren Moreno filed a $20 million claim alleging that failures to manage and share fingerprint information allowed a known killer to remain free and led to his wife’s and daughter’s deaths. Does anyone have information about Moran’s movements in the days before August 1, 2005, or about the fingerprint procedures that were in use then?