>> when rod and julie estes started their life together in jacksonville, florida, as husband and wife, they had to figure out, like most couples, how to support themselves. rod drove a truck for a plastics company, but the only job 21-year-old julie could find was working the late shift at a convenience store near their home. >> she had graduated from high school, but she was a recent transplant to the jacksonville area and needed that job to put food on her table. >> convenience stores and gas stations were really the only things at night that were open that people would rob. >> i imagine sitting in that convenience store without any kind of modern-day surveillance or protection or panic button, that she must have been fearful. >> julie normally worked afternoons and evenings and closed the store at 11:00 p.m. but one night, a customer noticed the store was closed at 10:30, a half hour earlier than the closing time posted on the door. police were asked to check it out. >> we shined our lights in the windows.