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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. >> the lesson for criminals would be no matter how long ...

>> investigators now wanted to test the biological evidence collected from julie's rape test kit to see whether james elmen was her killer, but there was a risk. the test would consume all of the evidence. >> unfortunately, sometimes you have to make a choice. you might have to run the entire bit of sample. but at the time, you're thinking this is the best technology available. >> investigators decided the gamble was worth it. >> they consumed all of the semen that was contained in those slides trying to get results, results that, unfortunately, never showed who the killer was. >> this was a d...

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

Half-sister of elmen. >> investigators now wanted to test the biological evidence collected from julie's rape test kit to see whether james elmen was her killer, but there was a risk. the test would consume all of the evidence. >> unfortunately, sometimes you have to make a choice. you might have to run the entire bit of sample. but at the time, you're thinking this is the best technology available. >> investigators decided the gamble was worth it. >> they consumed all of the semen that was contained in those slides trying to get results, results that, unfortunately, never showed who the kille...

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...