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Nobody answered the phone. So I thought well I'll go over and check on her

She was laying there, but there was a pillow over her head and a footstool on top of that pillow

And right here in this hole is the place where his blood was left as he cut himself in ring Mrs. Gerdy's residence

And it's from that small little spot there that the case was broken

One morning in 1996 and a small Indiana town an elderly woman was found murdered in her bed

86-year-old Julia Gerdy was the matriarch of the Gerdy family

She didn't have any enemies and she wasn't up for a fight during a burglary nor was there any sign of a sexually motivated crime

So why would someone brutally murder a helpless old woman for seemingly no reason

That was the first and what would become a long list of questions asked by investigators in the case

And for nearly four years these questions would go unanswered

Torturing the police and the Gerdy family

Until a single piece of evidence reveals the motive and the murderer behind Julia Gerdy's brutal death

From A&E this is cold case files the podcast

I'm Brooke and here's Bill Curtis for the classic case a drop of blood

On a Monday morning Mary Lou Garty decides to check in on her 86-year-old mother in law Julia

She hops in her truck and drives around the corner to Julia's farmhouse on the outside everything appears to be normal

The inside however is a different story

Look like somebody totally ramsack the house and a lot of things were really like thrown around torn up things were out of a cabinet

Mary Lou walks through the house and ensures towards Julia's bedroom

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