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PHOENIX - Thirty-five years after a man was found shot to death, his family is speaking out, hoping that new technology will help solve the cold case.

What we know:

In the early hours of July 21, 1990, Mauel Jimenez visited a Denny’s near Broadway Road and Priest Drive in Tempe. It was the last place he was seen alive.

His granddaughter, Jessica Jimenez-Mapes, was just a few weeks away from her fourth birthday. She has a happy memory of her grandfather teaching her a trick, but her other memory is of the day he died.

"I just remember my mom being shocked," Jessica said. "She didn’t scream, but it was almost like she wasn’t able to."

Manuel was found shot to death several miles from the Denny's. A passerby reported his body on Oak Street in Phoenix, where there were on

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