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A woman suddenly stopped answering her family and friends, and no one had any idea where she’d gone. That lasted until police got involved — and the case quickly turned into one of the strangest, most tangled stories they’d ever seen. Even today, people are still obsessed with the details, and even though it’s officially “solved,” a lot of it still feels hard to fully wrap your head around.
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00:00A woman suddenly stopped answering her family and friends, and no one had any idea where she'd gone.
00:06That lasted until police got involved, and the case quickly turned into one of the strangest,
00:12most tangled stories they'd ever seen. Even today, people are still obsessed with the details,
00:19and even though it's officially solved, a lot of it still feels hard to fully wrap your head around.
00:30Andrea Kincada was born on May 10, 1946, in Washington, D.C. After finishing high school,
00:39she enrolled at George Washington University, and not long after graduating, she met a man named
00:44Howard. They got married and had a son, but later divorced. Andrea and her son moved to Arlington,
00:50just outside D.C., where she took a job at a library and quickly fell in love with it.
00:56Andrea adored reading and learning new things, so she was happy to be there,
01:01often picking up extra shifts and barely taking a day off.
01:05She also loved staying active, and every morning before work, she'd swim laps at the pool.
01:10In 1988, when she was 42, Andrea met a man named James, and the two started dating. He was 26 at the
01:18time, but the age gap never seemed to bother them. Three years later, they got engaged and moved in
01:24together, renting an apartment in a small complex in a nice neighborhood. On top of that, they bought
01:30some land outside the city and started building their dream home, doing the work themselves,
01:35putting real time and heart into the project. Over the next few years, the couple settled into a quiet
01:41routine, planning their wedding and still working on their dream house. James worked as a geologist for
01:47engineering firms and picked up extra hours at a building supply store, while Andrea stayed at the
01:53library. Her son, who'd been living with them the whole time, eventually moved out, and the two of
01:58them were on their own. In 1998, Andrea was 52, and she and James had been together for about 10 years.
02:06On August 21st, she was finally looking forward to a rare day off. She was usually always working,
02:13but this time, she had the whole day planned. Lunch with a friend, and then a date night with
02:18James. Either they'd go to the movies, or rent something and just stay in. That morning, Andrea
02:25did her usual swim, stopped by work briefly, and was back home by around 11am. She emailed her friend
02:31to confirm she'd be at the restaurant at 1pm, but she never showed. Her friend tried calling the house
02:37phone, but there was no answer. So, she figured Andrea got held up, or maybe her plans had changed.
02:44Around 6pm, James came home from work, and Andrea wasn't there. Her car was gone too, so he assumed
02:51she was still out, either at the restaurant with her friend or running an errand. He waited for hours,
02:57but she never came back. And close to midnight, he finally fell asleep. When he woke up around 1.30am,
03:05she still wasn't home. Lying there in bed, he noticed something that immediately felled off.
03:11The closet door in their bedroom, the one that was always left wide open, was now almost closed.
03:18The door was broken and didn't really shut all the way, so they always kept it fully open.
03:23James said this was the first time he'd ever seen it nearly closed. He got up and looked toward the
03:29closet, but it was too dark to see inside. So, he turned on the light, and that's when he
03:35found her. Andrea's body was on the closet floor, tucked up against the wall, and James knew right
03:42away she was dead. James called 911, and paramedics responded to the apartment. They confirmed Andrea
03:49had been dead for at least several hours. Her body was taken for examination, and detectives
03:55opened an investigation. First, they talked to James. He told them he'd gotten home around 6pm,
04:01ate dinner, took a shower, and did some laundry. He said he never opened the closet door at any point,
04:07so he had no idea Andrea had been in the apartment the entire time. In other words,
04:13he'd been living just a few feet away from her body for roughly 7 hours before he found her.
04:20James also said several items were missing from the apartment, including Andrea's purse,
04:26her car keys, a green bag, and a few stacks of coins he'd been collecting. What didn't make sense
04:33was what the killer didn't take. There was cash sitting out in plain sight, plus other valuables,
04:40including an expensive watch still on Andrea's wrist. Later, James also noticed something else was
04:47gone. His mother's will had disappeared from a file drawer. When crime scene tech started processing
04:54the apartment, they were thrown by how little they were finding. It looked like the place had been
04:59thoroughly cleaned, to the point they couldn't even tell where the attack happened. There were no
05:05obvious signs of a struggle, and no clear traces left behind. Detectives also found no signs of forced
05:12entry, although James said that when he came home from work, the apartment door wasn't locked. In total,
05:19texts lifted around 600 fingerprints from all over the apartment. Almost all of them belonged to James,
05:27but none matched Andrea. And that was bizarre, considering she'd lived there for 7 years.
05:35Even stranger, the closet door handle where her body was found, had no prints at all, like someone had
05:41wiped it down on purpose. Same with the vacuum cleaner that had clearly been used after the killing.
05:48It was spotless. Not long after, the medical examiner finished the autopsy and ruled that Andrea died by
05:56strangulation. They also noted a few small bruises on her hands and other parts of her body, suggesting
06:02she'd fought back. But there were no major injuries, no signs of sexual assault, and no foreign DNA, which
06:10was yet another dead end for investigators. The one detail that really caught their attention was a small mark on
06:18Andrea's thigh. It was a triangle-shaped impression with a curved line running through it. With everything
06:24they had, detectives started leaning toward a personal motive, because robbery didn't fit, and neither did
06:31anything sexual. Their first suspect was James, and for a few different reasons. Detectives immediately
06:38started questioning James' story after they listened to his 911 call. He'd supposedly just found the body
06:45of his fiancée, the woman he'd been with for nearly ten years. Yet he sounded completely calm,
06:51like he was ordering a pizza.
06:53I'll enter 911, what is your emergency?
06:57Uh, I need an officer at 17.
07:01What's going on?
07:02Uh, I thought my girlfriend was missing. I hadn't seen her, she was about to go out tonight.
07:08Uh, but I figured I'd give her some time. Uh, I think she's dead.
07:15You think so?
07:16Yeah?
07:17Right?
07:18The door was closed.
07:19On top of that, they couldn't get past one detail. He'd spent a full seven hours in the
07:24apartment with her body there, and somehow never noticed a thing. And then, in the middle
07:31of the night, he claimed he suddenly spotted that the broken closet door was almost closed,
07:36in a dark room, and only then did he find Andrea. Police brought him in for an interview,
07:42and for hours, he walked them through his entire evening, step by step. He said that
07:47when he got home from work, the front door wasn't locked, and Andrea wasn't inside. But
07:52for some reason, that didn't seem to alarm him much. He took a shower, and then he noticed
07:57there were several messages on the answering machine in the bedroom, the one sitting right
08:02next to the same closet. James said that while he was listening to them, standing just a few
08:08feet from the slightly closed closet door, he also noticed something else.
08:13The bedroom carpet looked unusually clean, like someone had just vacuumed it, and he
08:18insisted it wasn't him. He said he hadn't cleaned the apartment, and that Andrea usually
08:23did the cleaning on weekends, not on a weekday.
08:27As for the messages, the first one was from Andrea's friend, the one who'd been waiting
08:31for her at the restaurant. She called to check if she was okay, and asked why she'd missed
08:35their plans. The next three messages were from James himself. He'd been calling home
08:40from work, but nobody ever picked up. And the last message came from another friend
08:46of Andrea's. A relative of hers had ended up in the hospital, and Andrea had been helping
08:50by watching her kids while the family dealt with everything. The friend said she had bad
08:55news, and asked Andrea to call her back as soon as she could. James told detectives that
09:00in that moment, he assumed Andrea must have heard that last message and driven over to
09:05that friend. But then he also admitted something that didn't quite make sense. He said all five
09:11messages were still marked as unheard.
09:14After a while, he tried calling that friend back, hoping Andrea might be at her place.
09:19But no one answered.
09:21After that, James said he cleaned out his car, grabbed the trash bags from the apartment,
09:26and took them out to the dumpster near the complex. Then he did laundry, hung everything
09:30up to dry, and sat down to watch TV. Later that night, he went to bed, in the bedroom
09:36with the closet. The same closet where Andrea was later found, and fell asleep. A few hours
09:42later, he woke up and, while still lying in bed, noticed the closet door looked more closed
09:48than usual. He got up, walked over, and that's when he discovered her body. Detectives also
09:55pointed out that the laundry baskets James had been using were sitting right next to the
10:00closet, meaning he'd been right up against that area multiple times that evening, close
10:05enough that it was hard to believe he wouldn't have noticed anything. James also told them
10:10that at one point, he couldn't find his keys and carefully searched the entire bedroom.
10:15But he still insisted he never saw his fiancé's body. And there was another detail that stood
10:20out. The detective asked why, when he called 911, he did it from the second bedroom, the
10:26one that used to belong to Andrea's son, instead of calling from his own room. James said there
10:32was an old rotary phone in the master bedroom that he wasn't used to anymore, so he went
10:37to the other room to use a more familiar push-button phone. In total, police spent dozens of hours
10:43interviewing James, but he kept insisting he was innocent. After one of those interviews,
10:49he called detectives and said he'd stumbled across Andrea's car while driving home. It
10:54was parked on the shoulder across the river from Arlington. Forensics found the clutch had
10:59been burned out, so the car couldn't be driven. And on top of that, they couldn't recover
11:03a single, usable fingerprint or DNA sample. It looked like someone had thoroughly wiped the
11:09car down before dumping it there. Not long after, investigators uncovered another detail
11:16that seemed to point back to James. Remember that odd triangular mark on Andrea's thigh?
11:22Analysts compared it to the shoes James had been wearing that night and said the tread
11:26pattern on his sneakers was a match. They also noted the imprint could have been left if
11:31Andrea's skin was wet, like she'd been attacked shortly after getting out of the shower. Still,
11:37even with all of those circumstantial signs, detectives ran into a major problem. The medical examiners
11:43estimated Andrea was killed around 1 p.m., while James didn't get home from work until
11:49about 6. Police dug into his alibi, interviewed his coworkers, and concluded he simply couldn't
11:55have been back at the apartment earlier that afternoon, meaning he wouldn't have had the
12:00chance to do it. And motive was another issue. Everyone close to them described Andrea and James
12:06as happy. No obvious tension. No big fights. Nothing that screamed, this was coming.
12:13Still, detectives did learn something new. In one of his later interviews, James admitted
12:19he spent a lot of time on adult websites with paid live streams. And that he'd poured a fair
12:25amount of money into them. He also said he'd started talking to one of the women who worked
12:29there, though it never went beyond emails. Even so, he kept insisting he had nothing to do with
12:35Andrea's murder, and police still couldn't actually tie him to it. So, with no other real leads,
12:42they decided to try a different tactic. They brought him in again, and told him the medical examiner had
12:48now nailed down the exact time of death, and that Andrea had been killed after James got home.
12:54They also claimed they'd found his fingerprint on her body. None of that was true, but detectives
13:00are allowed to bluff like that to try to shake something loose. And they left out one key detail
13:06on purpose. They didn't tell James how Andrea died, because they were hoping he'd slip and reveal
13:13it himself. James still denied killing her, but before long, his story started to shift. Carefully
13:20choosing his words, he said that if his prints had supposedly been found on her body, then maybe
13:26he'd moved her into the closet for some reason. Even though he claimed he had absolutely no memory
13:32of doing that. He kept saying he couldn't remember anything different from his original version of
13:38events. And eventually, detectives asked him to walk through how the night could have gone,
13:43hypothetically, if he had killed Andrea. James kept insisting he had zero memory of killing her.
13:49But then, he started talking anyway. He said that day, they could have gotten into a fight,
13:55because Andrea found out how much money he'd been spending on those adult livestream sites.
14:00Then he suggested he might have hit her a few times, and that Andrea fell to the floor.
14:05And when he reached down to check her pulse, he realized she was dead.
14:10But even in this so-called confession, James never once mentioned the actual cause of death,
14:16strangulation. That basically killed the detective's hopes of using his story in court,
14:22because his version didn't match the evidence. Still, the interview wasn't a total waste.
14:28Once James admitted the livestream obsession, detectives started digging into his behavior
14:33off the internet. And what they found wasn't great. They spoke to a woman who lived in the same complex.
14:40She told them that both that year and the year before, James had left her flowers on Valentine's
14:46Day. He'd also show up with cookies sometimes. And when Andrea was out of town with her son,
14:52James even came by with a movie on VHS. The neighbor also said he'd been watching her,
14:58popping up in places she went, like it wasn't a coincidence. And one time, someone even spotted him
15:04outside her apartment windows, looking in. On top of that, detectives learned James had gone on at
15:11least one date with another woman. Something Andrea apparently didn't know about. So yeah,
15:17it definitely put a dent in the picture of this perfect relationship. But without a real confession,
15:24and with his alibi still holding up, police were basically stuck. As a result, detectives had to shift
15:31their focus away from James and start looking at other possibilities. After talking to Andrea's
15:37relatives and friends, they learned that none of them believed James was involved. Everyone described
15:43him as calm and non-confrontational. And even Andrea's son insisted police were wasting time on an
15:49innocent man. In fact, her son, along with several of Andrea's friends, said they believed they knew who
15:57the real killer was, and they pushed police to investigate him. According to them, a few weeks
16:03before Andrea died, she was getting ready to throw out her old computer. Around that same time,
16:09a maintenance company was doing some work in their apartment complex, and Andrea asked one of the
16:14workers whether they took old computers for recycling. He told her no, but said he'd gladly take it for
16:20personal use. Andrea handed it over, and even gave him her home phone number so he could reach her if he
16:26ran into any issues logging in or accessing the account. What shocked her loved ones most was what
16:32they learned next. Andrea had actually let the man into the apartment to pick up the computer,
16:38and she even walked him into the bedroom, where it was kept. That's why Andrea's family and friends
16:44believed this worker could've been the one who killed her. He'd been inside her home, knew the layout,
16:51and could've easily gotten back in later, just by knocking on the door and coming up with some
16:57excuse about the computer. After police hit a dead end with James, they finally tracked down this man,
17:03a worker named Bobby, and they quickly realized he might be their guy. Just days after Andrea was
17:10murdered, Bobby was arrested for attacking his ex-wife. And that was only the start. He had a long
17:16criminal history, including sexual assaults, beatings, and other violent offenses. Detectives
17:23went to the jail to interview him, but he denied having anything to do with Andrea's murder. He also
17:28agreed to give a DNA sample and fingerprints. But the problem was, investigators basically had nothing
17:35solid to compare them to, so the case stalled again. About a year later, Bobby was arrested all over
17:42again. This time, he attacked a woman, started choking her, truly assaulted her, and dragged her
17:49into a closet. He thought he'd killed her, but she survived, and she was able to identify him.
17:55Bobby was sentenced to life in prison, and Andrea's investigators couldn't ignore how eerily similar that
18:02assault was to what happened in Andrea's apartment. But they still had one major problem. There was no
18:07physical evidence tying Bobby to Andrea's case. Because of that, the case hit another wall,
18:14and for years, police couldn't make any real progress. At one point, Andrea's family hired a
18:20private investigator, and she came to the same conclusion they had. Bobby was the most likely
18:26killer. And instead of building a case against him, detectives had spent years going after James
18:32with nothing solid to back it up. And what made it even stranger was this. Despite all the red flags
18:40around Bobby, investigators officially crossed him off the suspect list. To Andrea's family, that made no
18:46sense, but there was nothing they could do. Over the years that followed, detectives still treated
18:52James as their main suspect. But he kept insisting, again and again, that he had nothing to do with
18:59Andrea's death. In 2013, fifteen years after Andrea was killed, the case was handed over to the Cold
19:07Case Unit. The new detectives went back through everything from scratch, and at first, it didn't
19:12lead anywhere. Still, unlike the investigators before them, they weren't in a hurry to rule out Bobby.
19:19His record, and the way he'd attacked other victims, made it hard to ignore him. By then, he was already
19:26serving life, with basically no chance of ever getting out. And in 2018, after years of hitting
19:32dead ends, detectives decided to try a different angle. They offered him a deal. If Bobby finally
19:39told the truth, the prosecutor wouldn't seek the death penalty. And since he wasn't going home either
19:45way, extra time didn't really mean anything to him. He agreed. So detectives went to sit down and
19:51talk to him. Twenty years after Andrea was killed, Bobby finally admitted he was the one who did it.
19:59He said that day he drove to her apartment complex and knocked on her door, using the computer she'd
20:04given him a few weeks earlier as an excuse. Andrea opened up, they talked for a bit in the hallway,
20:11and at some point, Bobby asked for something to drink. She said she'd grab him a soda, and the second she
20:16turned away, he lunged at her and started choking her. Bobby claimed she barely fought back, and once
20:23he was sure she was dead, he dragged her body into the closet. But that was just the beginning of his
20:29story. Because then, he laid out what he said was the motive. A couple days after Andrea handed him the
20:36computer, Bobby called her with a few questions. Andrea told him she didn't really know the technical
20:41stuff and handed the phone to a man Bobby described as either her husband or her boyfriend. The guy
20:48walked him through the settings. They hung up, and that should have been the end of it. Instead, Bobby
20:54said the man called him back a few days later. But this time, it wasn't about the computer. He started
21:00asking personal questions about Bobby's life, his family, details that had nothing to do with anything.
21:07Bobby thought it was weird, but he answered anyway. Then, the calls kept coming, and on one of them,
21:15the man made it clear he knew a lot about Bobby. His criminal history, the times he'd been locked up,
21:21the cases he'd been involved in. When Bobby asked how he knew all that, the man supposedly said he was
21:27an engineer and he knew how to find information. According to Bobby, that's when the man started
21:33hinting he had work for him, staying vague for hours before finally saying what he wanted.
21:40Bobby claimed the man offered him $5,000 to kill Andrea, quietly, without using a gun. He said the
21:49money would be waiting in a boot inside the bedroom closet. Bobby said the man even told him exactly when
21:55Andrea would be home, around 1pm. So Bobby agreed, showed up at that time, used the computer story to get
22:02her to open the door, and asked for a drink so she turned her back. Then he followed her inside,
22:08killed her, ran a bath to check if she was still breathing, dragged her into the closet,
22:13and started looking for the promised cash. But when he searched the closet, the money wasn't there.
22:20Bobby said he tore through both closets in the apartment, checking every boot and digging through
22:25jacket pockets, but the money was nowhere to be found. That's when he noticed a large vase packed
22:30with coins. So he grabbed that instead, stuffed it into a gym bag, and figured he'd take the victim's
22:36car too, because the bag was too heavy. But he didn't get far. He burned out the clutch on the
22:42way, so he abandoned the car on the side of the road, after wiping it down to get rid of his
22:47fingerprints. Back home, he counted the coins and said it came up to roughly $650. He was furious.
22:54He claimed he wanted to kill Andrea's boyfriend, the guy who'd set him up and promised him $5000.
23:01But he never got the chance, because not long after that, he was arrested for assaulting his ex-wife.
23:07So Bobby gave detectives a huge amount of detail, but there was one major problem. The man who
23:13allegedly hired him never gave a name, and Bobby never met him face to face. From the detective's
23:19perspective, if Bobby was telling the truth, the mystery caller pretty much had to be James.
23:25There just weren't many other realistic options, and it didn't help that James often described
23:31himself as an engineer because he worked for engineering firms, even though his actual role
23:36was lower level. But that kind of logic didn't survive in court, and that was a brutal setback
23:42for the investigation. Still, detectives felt they were in the home stretch, and they started
23:47thinking about how they could actually prove James was involved. According to Bobby, he didn't bother
23:54cleaning up at all. He said there was water everywhere from the bathtub, the closets were
23:58trashed from him digging for the money, and the soda can he drank from was just left on the floor.
24:03But when police showed up after James' 911 call, the apartment was basically spotless.
24:09James had told investigators that after he got home from work, he took out some trash, but he
24:14insisted he never vacuumed or cleaned the place. Later, detectives showed Bobby the crime scene
24:20photos from that night, and he confirmed it. When he left, it looked nothing like that,
24:25meaning someone had come in after him and cleaned up. After detectives got all of that,
24:30they started thinking about how they could actually tie James to it, and instead of confronting him
24:35directly, they tried a pretty unusual move. Undercover officers approached him on the street,
24:42claimed they were Bobby's relatives, and demanded the $5,000 James supposedly owed him from back in
24:481998. The idea was to get him to slip up on tape, but it went nowhere. James refused to admit he owed
24:55anyone money, and pretty quickly, he said he wanted his lawyer, like he was starting to suspect these
25:02relatives were really connected to police. Not long after that, Andrea's son, Chris,
25:08made his own attempt to catch James. By then, the two of them barely spoke, and James had a new family.
25:14Chris hadn't believed James could have done it at first, but over the years, he started leaning
25:19more and more in that direction, so he wanted to help detectives prove it. On the 20th anniversary
25:26of Andrea's murder, Chris invited James to dinner and secretly recorded the whole conversation. First,
25:32he asked why James had given police that false confession in the early months of the investigation.
25:39James said detectives had kept him awake through endless interviews, and his brain basically stopped
25:44working. Under that kind of pressure, he started convincing himself he must have done it. Later in
25:50the conversation, Chris asked whether James had vacuumed the apartment that night, and James said yes.
25:57That directly contradicted what he'd told police before, when he swore he never even touched the
26:03vacuum. Chris also felt like the motive was obvious. James had been spending a lot of money
26:09on adult livestream sites, and he'd been seeing other women on the side. Chris believed his mom
26:15may have found out, and if she left him, James would have had to move out. On top of that, he could have
26:21lost his stake in the unfinished house they were building out of town, or been forced to pay a large
26:27amount to buy Andrea's share. In the end, detectives were left with two possible scenarios. Either James
26:34pulled off something close to a perfect crime, hiring someone to kill his fiancé and leaving no clear
26:40trail back to him, or James became an accomplice without even realizing it, by cleaning the apartment and wiping
26:47out evidence against Bobby. All while somehow not noticing Andrea's body in the closet.
26:53Even with a shaky case, the prosecutors decided to lean on Bobby's testimony, and in 2021, James was
27:00arrested. The trial started two years later, and his defense attorney immediately went after the
27:06investigator's early mistakes. He pointed out that police never even tried to track down the trash James
27:12said he took out that night. As for the vacuum bag, it sat untouched for nearly two decades. They
27:18only tested it right before trial, and by then, experts couldn't pull anything useful from it.
27:24According to the defense, Bobby really did commit the murder, but a lot of his story was either
27:30exaggerated or flat out made up. The attorney argued that Bobby may have been offered a perk,
27:36like a transfer to a better facility, if he gave testimony against James. Especially since
27:41detectives had been locked onto James for years. And he kept coming back to one big question.
27:48If Bobby was supposedly furious about not getting that promised $5,000, why wait 20 years to point
27:55the finger? Bobby was already facing life in prison. If revenge was the goal, he could have gone to
28:00police way earlier and tried to bury James back then. The defense also pointed out that Bobby had
28:07committed similar attacks before, including an attempted murder, and he did all of that on his own,
28:13not because someone was paying him. The prosecution pushed back by arguing that Bobby's other crimes
28:19had a clear sexual motive, while in Andrea's case, he killed her without any obvious reason or payoff.
28:27They also brought up another key detail. By the time Bobby confessed to Andrea's murder,
28:32he was already waiting on a transfer to a more comfortable prison. But once these new charges
28:37came up, that transfer was cancelled, so he didn't gain anything from confessing. If anything,
28:43he lost his shot at getting moved. James' attorney responded that investigators could have simply
28:48played Bobby, promising him a transfer, hinting they could make it happen, and making it sound like
28:54they could pull strings so Bobby might have believed them. As for Bobby himself, he insisted he confessed for
29:01a different reason. He'd found religion, and he felt like a voice inside him was telling him to come
29:07clean. When it came to James' possible motive, the defense said the money angle didn't hold up either.
29:14Chris had suspected James might be afraid of losing the country house, but at trial, it came out that
29:20James alone owned the land the house was on, meaning a breakup wouldn't have forced him to pay Andrea
29:26anything. In the end, the prosecution played the recording of James' interrogation,
29:32the one where he confessed. But it honestly backfired. The jurors heard detectives practically
29:38dragging a confession out of him, flat out lying about what evidence they supposedly had. And they
29:44also heard that James' description of how Andrea died didn't match reality at all. When the trial wrapped
29:51up, the jury took less than an hour to come back with a verdict. They found him not guilty, and James
29:58was released right there in the courtroom. Later, one juror said they couldn't understand how police had
30:05even built a case against him. There just wasn't any solid evidence. After the acquittal, James sued one
30:12of the detectives, claiming she misled the jury. According to him, she told them Bobby had named James
30:19directly, even though in reality, Bobby said the person who hired him never once gave a name. But
30:26eventually, that lawsuit was dismissed. As for Bobby, even before James' trial began, he'd already been
30:33handed a second life sentence for Andrea's murder. Not that it changed much for him personally, because
30:38he was going to spend the rest of his life behind bars either way. Andrea's son was devastated by the
30:44not guilty verdict, and he never stopped believing James was involved in her murder. So, in a legal
30:52sense, this tangled case is basically over. There's almost no chance James will ever be tried again.
30:58Under the law, he walked away an innocent man. But to this day, plenty of people are still convinced
31:05he played a direct role, and that he essentially got away with the perfect crime.
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