The Murder of Julie Bell Davis
Episode 146
Julie Bell Davis
It was a warm summer evening when Julie Davis was packing up her Des Moines office. The thirty-three year old was excited, she’d be moving out of the business park and into a high rise building downtown. Unfortunately, she would never make it there and just hours later she’d be found murdered.
The crime was shocking and frustrating, her killer having left behind little to suggest a motive or an identity. While police worked to try and crack the case, they also knew, it was not going to be easy. Within months the investigation was growing cold.
Over the next six months, though, police would respond to three other murders in the area which shared some similarities to Julie’s. The public began asking, was there a serial killer stalking the streets of Des Moines and its nearby cities? Police couldn’t say yes, but they couldn’t say no, either.
Three years later investigators arrested and charged a man with one of those murders, and subsequently, another. While evidence had been discovered linking him to the two crimes, police began trying to connect him to Julie. Had she fallen victim to the same killer or, was it as some believed, that the mother of two had liked been murdered by someone she knew and trusted?
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