dwindle, investigators continued to search for julie s killer, knowing full well they had no forensic evidence to identify him. but it didn t stop them from trying. at this particular time when this incident occurred, some weird things were happening in that area. seven months before julie s murder, the body of a missing 15-year-old girl was discovered just three miles away. her body was so badly decomposed, the cause of death couldn t be determined. and two months before julie s murder, a 10-year-old girl was found dead, hanging in a tree in the woods just two miles from julie s convenience store. since these crimes happened within a radius of only three miles, investigators had a hunch they might be connected.
police got a call from a man who had been kind of scrounging around behind another convenience store when he came upon a purple pair of shoes. the purple shoes are almost certainly julie s. the laces were missing. a bowling bag and some receipts with julie s name left no doubt the items were hers. the site was just a half mile from the convenience store where julie has last seen alive. we found evidence that things were taken out of the trunk of her car. and she was probably forced into the trunk, then she was driven five or six miles away from there, where her body was found. normally, the evidentiary value of the items would be significant, but not this time. the civilian that had found those items had at first taken them home. this meant all the evidence at what may have been the murder
got involved, they broadened their search. they looked at every sexually motivated crime in the region and got a break. just two months after julie estes murder, 30 miles away, in another jurisdiction, there had been another convenience store crime, almost identical to julie s, except, in this case, the victim survived. a 19-year-old convenience store worker, carla nobles, had just closed the store and given a ride to a young man she met in the parking lot. sure, get in. thanks. she voluntarily let him in the car, having no idea what he was capable of. she did a quick drive to the post office, where he said he wanted to go. before they got there, the man pulled a knife, forced her to drive to an isolated field and sexually assaulted her.
site was compromised. somebody s been there, moving things around, and it just makes the investigation a lot more difficult. in the meantime, it didn t take long for investigators to eliminate julie s husband as a suspect. when he was perfectly willing to take a polygraph examination, kept in contact with the officers trying to work this case, i think all suspicion was erased. but julie s autopsy did provide some important information about the killer. the medical examiner found evidence of sexual assault. a rape test kit recovered biological evidence, presumably of the perpetrator. unfortunately, dna testing wasn t yet available. crimes in 1985 were a lot harder to solve, just based on technology. there are certain things that we could yield dna profiles from today you wouldn t be able to get back then. as the weeks went by and the number of leads started to
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