at the time, dna testing wasn t as sophisticated as it is today. back then, the dna testing procedures that we used required dna to be what s called high molecular weight. we needed dna that hadn t gone through any degradation processes at all. but investigators did find some suspicious damage to persitz s car. the car had damage to the front right end. the paint was scraped and the bumper was broken. the scratches on the bumper had what appeared to be tiny specs of orange paint, which were removed with a small probe. we re talking microscopic-sized chips of paint. the paint sample was compared to the paint from the broken gate using a process called a solubility analysis. it s a series or reagents or solvents that may cause it to dissolve or swell, do something,
he was serving time in prison for a similar crime committed 30 miles away. his name was james elmen. elmen was the worst of the worst. we talk about he s the poster child of antisocial. it s a clue when the public defenders are afraid of him, when the doctors are afraid of him, when the people at the medical treatment facility are afraid of him. i was convinced if james elmen hit the streets of jacksonville again, women were going to start dying again, and i wanted to make sure that those cold case detectives had everything that they had to make sure that we could make the case. but investigators wanted to be sure elmen was responsible for julie estes murder. why? because if he wasn t, julie s killer was still on the loose. no, it s not always a hollywood ending. sometimes you don t get any
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
and forensic testing could not determine the origin of the blood in persitz s trunk. at the time, dna testing wasn t as sophisticated as it is today. back then, the dna testing procedures that we used required dna to be what s called high molecular weight. we needed dna that hadn t gone through any degradation processes at all. but investigators did find some suspicious damage to persitz s car. the car had damage to the front right end. the paint was scraped and the bumper was broken. the scratches on the bumper had what appeared to be tiny specs of orange paint, which were removed with a small probe. we re talking microscopic-sized chips of paint. the paint sample was compared to the paint from the broken gate using a process called a solubility analysis. chemical solubility tests are a series of reagents or
julie estes killer, investigators were convinced they d found him. he was serving time in prison for a similar crime committed 30 miles away. his name was james elmen. elmen was the worst of the worst. we talk about he s the poster child of antisocial. it s a clue when the public defenders are afraid of him, when the doctors are afraid of him, when the people at the medical treatment facility are afraid of him. i was convinced if james elmen hit the streets of jacksonville again, women were going to start dying again, and i wanted to make sure that those cold case detectives had everything that they had to make sure that we could make the case. but investigators wanted to be sure elmen was responsible for julie estes murder. why? because if he wasn t, julie s