Updated: 8-3-2017

Maybe you shouldn't leave your dentures lying around as a Memphis man discovered. His dentures collected as evidence after a 2001 rape led to an eight-year prison sentence for the Tennessee man.

Prosecutors in Memphis say 67-year-old Thomas Maupin pleaded guilty to sexual assault and was sentenced on July 24. Investigators say the dentures were collected and stored as evidence after a 31-year-old woman was raped in Memphis 16 years ago.

DNA also was collected, but the evidence became part of a backlog of 12,000 untested rape kits revealed in 2013.

The dentures were sent for testing in July 2016 and a partial DNA profile emerged that was consistent with Maupin’s and his name was imprinted on the dentures, which were made while he was in prison for the 1988 murder of a girl in Washington state.