Earlier this week we told you about a former humane agent who was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for his role in the deaths of more than a dozen dogs.

Campbell Police detective Jim Conroy has become quite familiar with Steffen Baldwin, a former Humane Agent in Union County Ohio, who was recently sentenced to more than 15 years for an elaborate scheme, where he promises to various rescues and families to rehabilitate dangerous dogs for profit, but instead killed them, at least 18 dogs to date. The sentencing, around five years after he was arrested, indicted, and released on bond.

"A few weeks after his arrest I received a call from New Hampshire State Police stating that there was a hit on his fingerprint.", said Conroy. During that aforementioned arrest his fingerprints were taken and put into AFIS(Automated Identification Fingerprint System).

That 'hit' came back to a print found in the vehicle where Maura Murray was last seen in before her disappearance in February 2004.

James Renner, a journalist and well-known for the True Crime This Week Podcast, has been following this missing persons case for a long time.

"The last thing I ever expected was for Steffen's case to intersect with Maura Murray's disappearance but here we are." Renner said. 

Renner tells 21 News he attended Baldwin's sentencing earlier this week he spoke to the former humane agent.

"When I spoke to him the day of his sentencing, he admitted that and that someone had told him the fingerprint was on a CD or CD case found in Maura Murray's car." James added.

According to Renner, Steffen and Mora attended West Point together, were in a relationship and left around the same time.

"He goes to California for awhile, eventually ends up in Ohio and becomes a quasi-celebrity known for his work in dog rescues.", Renner explained.