Sands of Crime
Forensic Files
HLN
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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This episode originally aired March 25, 2019. A college co-ed was abducted from a parking lot. Her body was found later that day. She'd been sexually assaulted and shot at point blank range. Eight years passed and then a pair of shoes and a cell phone breathed new life into a cold case.
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| 0:00.0 | Up next, my wife heard a really awful screen for our permit complex. |
| 0:05.3 | A college co-ed goes missing, and police suspect its foul play. |
| 0:09.8 | It was pretty brazen. |
| 0:10.8 | Could have been a peeping tom, could have been a car burglar. |
| 0:14.1 | A witness thinks he seized the victim's car, but doesn't get a good look at the driver. |
| 0:18.8 | This guy kept looking at him in that rearview mirror. |
| 0:21.2 | He would look at people on the side of the street and wonder, |
| 0:23.6 | I wonder if that could be Julie's killer. |
| 0:25.3 | For eight years, the mystery goes unsolved |
| 0:28.0 | until a pair of shoes and a cell phone call give new life to a very cold case. |
| 0:35.3 | This did not strike me as the run-of-the-mill murder. |
| 0:50.0 | For 21-year-old Julie Buskin, a bachelor's degree in dance from the University of Oklahoma was the culmination of a lifelong dream. |
| 1:00.7 | Julie always knew she wanted to be a ballet dancer. |
| 1:03.5 | From the time she went to a recital of her friends in first grade. |
| 1:07.0 | Her goal was to teach children, possibly even special ed children, and have a dance studio. |
| 1:15.2 | Julie completed all of the courses for her bachelor's degree by Christmas. |
| 1:20.4 | So her parents drove from Arkansas to help Julie move her belongings home. |
| 1:26.7 | When they got to her apartment, Julie wasn't there, and neither was her car. |
| 1:33.4 | A police officer came to me and asked if we were the buskins. |
| 1:37.1 | He said, you need to contact the OU Police Department. |
| 1:40.9 | Your daughter's missing. |
| 1:42.9 | And Mary Jean said, you know, something's bad wrong. |
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