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>> he shut off the store's 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 suspicion, but no evidence, to charge elmen with his half-sister's murder. but after 17 years, there was plenty of dna evidence to charge him with julie estes' rape and murder. >> it just was unbelievable that it would be the socks that would hold the true identity of her killer. >> faced with a possible death penalty, elmen decided to plead no contest to julie estes' rape and murder. in return, he was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. >> how do you feel about everything? >> how do i feel? >> mm-hmm. >> the overall picture? i think this sucks....

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 everyth...

And people around james elmen tend to die. >> unfortunately, if elmen was julie's killer, there was no longer any dna to prove it. d. here's how: we work with leading employers to learn what you need to learn so classes impact your career. while helping ensure credits you've already earned pay off. and we have career planning tools to keep you on track every step of the way. plus the freshman fifteen, isn't really a thing here. and graduation, it's just the beginning. because we build education around where you want to go. so, you know, you can get the job you want. ready, let's get to work.

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 before julie's murder. >> the 10-year-old was a half-sister of elmen.