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test the biological evidence collected from julie s rape test kit to see whether james elmen was her killer, but there was a risk. the test would consume all of the evidence. unfortunately, sometimes you have to make a choice. you might have to run the entire bit of sample. but at the time, you re thinking this is the best technology available. investigators decided the gamble was worth it. they consumed all of the semen that was contained in those slides trying to get results, results that, unfortunately, never showed who the killer was. this was a devastating setback. it s just shocking. it feels like you re hit with a ton of bricks. then you ve got to start over. it s like going starting from scratch again. but investigators refused to give up. elmen has a rough history, and people around james elmen tend to die.
away. she was sure he was going to kill her because she could identify him, but then she saw the only chance to escape, a police officer directing traffic. what are you doing? drop the knife! the man was identified as james elmen. he was convicted for the crime and was currently serving a 22-year sentence in a nearby prison. and cold case investigators learned another startling coincidence. elmen had a close connection to the 10-year-old girl found hanging in the tree near julie s store two months before julie s murder. the 10-year-old was a half-sister of elmen. investigators now wanted to
there was absolutely no signs of foul play. nothing was disrupted. nothing was overturned. it just looked like somebody left the store. so, we went back to work and went about our normal shift. the next morning, the daytime clerk opened the store and discovered it had been robbed. the floor safe had been opened and appeared to be empty, and that the power appeared to have been cut off the night before. according to the owners, around $500 was missing from the safe. police tried to find julie, but she wasn t home. surprisingly, julie s husband said she never came home from work, and he admitted he hadn t reported her missing. he told me at that time that they had had a small argument before she left for work, and i m like, well, you didn t call the police when she didn t come home for, you know, eight hours? every time i hear that story of somebody saying, well, i didn t call it in because we had an argument, i always wonder, how could anyone believe this?
CNN Forensic Files July 9, 2014 07:37:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.