Julie Rea

On October 13, 1997, 10-year-old Joel Kirkpatrick was found murdered inside his mother, Julie Rea’s home in Lawrenceville, Illinois. Julie claimed a man wearing a ski mask broke into her house, attacked her, and killed her son. But investigators were skeptical of Julie’s story because they didn’t believe the crime scene matched her story. Can forensic science determine if Julie Rea is an innocent victim or a cold-blooded killer?

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