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Electricity, held julie at knifepoint, forced her to open the safe. then, he made her drive a half mile away to an area behind an unoccupied store. he used her shoelaces to tie her wrists, then raped and killed her. he removed items from julie's trunk to make room for her body. elmen drove to the woods where he hid her body under some cardboard. the biological evidence from the attack was embedded in her cotton socks. elmen probably wanted to keep julie's car, but it got stuck in the mud and he had to escape on foot. authorities had plenty of

>> unfortunately, if elmen was julie's killer, there was no longer any dna to prove it. after years of searching for

Evidence could have transferred onto julie's socks was remote. nevertheless, analyst brian higgins examined the socks with light sources that cause genetic material to fluoresce. >> i was kind of like, wow, could these be semen stains? i was kind of surprised, actually, because it's not one of the more common places we would find semen. >> the areas were removed then analyzed with a new dna test that needed only a very small amount of genetic material. miraculously, the tests generated a mixture of two dna profiles, one female and one male. one was julie's dna. the other was the dna of the kil...

To drive to an isolated field and sexually assaulted her. he then forced her to drive 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 be...

Material to fluoresce. >> i was kind of like, wow, could these be semen stains? i was kind of surprised, actually, because it's not one of the more common places we would find semen. >> the areas were removed then analyzed with a new dna test that needed only a very small amount of genetic material. miraculously, the tests generated a mixture of two dna profiles, one female and one male. one was julie's dna. the other was the dna of the killer. >> they were able to identify that dna profile as the exact match to james elmen. >> we were all ecstatic. i mean, it was an unbelievable feeling. and ...