146 - The Murder of Julie Bell Davis
Trace Evidence
Steven Pacheco
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🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On the evening of August 28th, 1997, Julie was working out of her Des Moines office. She'd recently gotten approval to move locations to a high rise building downtown. That night, she was packing up when an unknown killer entered the office and struck.
From the very beginning the investigation was almost cold with police acknowledging they had few clues. What they did know, however, was that whoever had committed the crime was no beginner and knew how to cover their tracks. Over the course of the next six months, three more murders occurred and some bore striking similarities to Julie's.
Years later, police would capture a serial killer, tying him to some of those murders but the question still lingers: was Julie Bell Davis one of his victims or is it possible her killer may have been someone she knew and trusted?
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| 0:31.6 | It was a warm summer night when Julie Davis was packing up her Des Moines office. The 33-year-old |
| 0:45.8 | was excited. She'd be moving out of the business park and into a high-rise building downtown. |
| 0:51.7 | Unfortunately, she would never make it there. The crime was shocking and frustrating. Her |
| 0:58.1 | killer having left behind little to suggest a motive or an identity. While police worked |
| 1:03.9 | to try and crack the case, they also knew it wasn't going to be easy. |
| 1:09.2 | Over the next six months, police would respond to three other murders in the area which |
| 1:14.2 | shared some similarities to Julie's. The public began asking, was there a serial killer |
| 1:20.3 | stalking the streets of Des Moines and its nearby cities? Officers couldn't say yes, but |
| 1:26.6 | they couldn't say no either. |
| 1:29.5 | Three years later, investigators arrested and charged a man with one of those murders |
| 1:34.7 | and subsequently another. While evidence had been discovered linking him to the two crimes, |
| 1:40.8 | police began trying to connect him to Julie. Had she fallen victim to the same killer, |
| 1:46.8 | was it as some believed that the mother of two had likely been killed by someone she knew |
| 1:52.6 | and trusted? This is Trace Evidence, Episode 146, the murder of Julie Bell Davis. |
| 2:09.1 | Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco. Today we'll examine a horrifying |
| 2:15.6 | unsolved murder, but before getting into the case, just a few notes about the show. |
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