Despite the fingerprint match and failed polygraph, the Kentucky Commonwealth Attorney refused to prosecute Arthur Porter III, stating the case would not hold up in court.
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In 2008, Louisville investigators finally got the break they'd waited four decades for: an FBI database match linking a surviving fingerprint to Arthur Porter III, then 61 and living in California. Back in 1965, Arthur was 17 and living in Louisville, where his father ran a prominent Black-owned funeral home — the same one that handled Alberta's body. A detective flew to California to interview him, and the conversation is strange: Arthur simultaneously denies knowing why a homicide detective has come to see him while also insisting he didn't kill anybody. He mentions 'prints' before the detective brings them up. He fails a polygraph described as showing 'the highest level of deception possible.' But because investigators can't determine exactly where in the car the matching print was from, the Commonwealth Attorney refuses to prosecute, and Arthur maintains his innocence until his death in 2024.
When Arthur Porter III took a polygraph in 2008 as part of the renewed Alberta Jones investigation, the report found 'the highest level of deception possible.'
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