look at an old lead. he just said it s a match a person no one would hav ever suspected of murder we were going to end this was suddenly suspect number one. perfect murder. almost hello welcome to dateline . she was a new bride marrie just three months, then she wa found murdered what happened to her remained mystery for decades partly because police told us the thief must have killed her during a break-in gone bad they discovered it wasn t murder, but a suspect whos trail right to their own front door here is josh mankiewicz with the smoking gun. february 1st, 2009. the detective arrived before
while the kids were downstairs watching cartoons. and neighbors saw julie leaving just after 9 am. and, she was at not costar coffee roasting 40 minutes later. she wasn t crying, she wasn t upset. she didn t ask anyone to call 9-1-1. it showed that this woman had a calloused heart. she was capable of murdering her husband. and, really had to be worked to go out into public and appear to be perfectly normal. it was clearly murder. the deputy da watanbe, but was it? remember, julie did not talk, not once to the police or the prosecutor because her attorney never allowed it. but, now, it was time. defensive tierney paul pfingst called just one witness, julie harper. and she said, yes. she didn t. she shot him. but, she said, it wasn t murder. why? because she said, jason harper,
sergeant smith. in fact, she filed for divorce, five days before the incident. and that same week, made some unusual financial transactions. miss harper took out about $10,000 in cash out of that dormant account that was under her daughter s name, and she written 4500 checks, two of them, to herself. and it was against the credit card, and mr. harper. julie pulled out nearly $20,000 cash. we found that to be very suspicious. deputy district attorney, keith watanbe was assigned to the case on day one. it s a gesture that she had been hoarding money in anticipation of something? she was preparing for a change in her life. but did the change involved divorce? or murder? julie s father, john, moved here. 13 miles from jason anjolie s house. this is where julie indicates spent the night after the
was doing it. i didn t want, i didn t want my family to no. i didn t want my neighbors to know. i didn t want my friends to. no manipulation? or the awful truth. once again, a jury was asked to pass judgment on julie harper. in the court of the state of california everybody waited, baited breath. we the jury in the above entitled cause, find the defendant, julie harper guilty of the crime of murder and fixed the degree there fore of murder in the second degree. guilty of second degree murder. armed with the handcuffs just like that. jury number two was not at all like during number one. no doubt at all? no. not at all. what about the secret recording of jason yelling at julie? i don t want to enable your horrible money waste! he did lose his temper at
so, what s happened? home invasion? kidnapping? murder, suicide? did you worry about their kids? oh, it was the worst part. absolutely. number one, their safety. are they okay? but the police department have one police of information that neighbors lacked, which gave them a strange phone call at 11 pm the night before. sergeant jeff smith was the lead detective. the watch commander working that night got a phone call from an attorney, asking him to go, but the police department to go do offer a check out our residents. a welfare check? it seems like an odd request. who was this lawyer you called? it was attorney bob thinks pfingst. that ball pfingst, he just happened to be the ex da, and now criminal defense attorney, who knew the police department very well. he called an internal extension that unlike a 9-1-1 call was not recorded.