If The Ring Doesn't Fit...?

In 2004 Julie Marie White Boyd was twenty-six and starting her life again. She had married at twenty-one and, at the start of 2004, her husband, known in the episode only as Boyd, asked for a divorce. She moved into her own apartment, was having a house built, worked as an IT manager at iPay in Elizabethtown and attended a divorce recovery group at Severns Valley Baptist Church. She was a member of Southeast Christian Church and her family was fairly religious. The break-up was not friendly. She took out a restraining order against Boyd and, according to her neighbour April Valez, bought a gun because she was afraid of him. She told friends that if anything happened to her, her husband had done it, because she was about to take back a truck that was in her name but that he was driving.

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On 29 December 2004 they met at the church and she gave him a copy of the title and a note giving him permission to drive the truck to her. They agreed to try the following night. At 8 p.m. on 30 December they met at the Jerry Mart, a convenience store in Rineyville just outside Elizabethtown. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it At 9.30 p.m. Julie telephoned her friend Linda Davis and said she would stay the night with her so that Boyd could not find her, warning that they might not get the truck that night. Her mother, Debbie White, spoke to her later and was told, as always, that she was fine. At about 11.30 p.m. they were still looking.

this part of the story is covered for now He said that after driving Julie around for about two hours they returned to the Jerry Mart, and that as she got out a man grabbed her from behind and pushed her back into the passenger seat. A second, smaller man joined him through the cargo doors. The larger man had a gun, which he put away. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it When she said she did not know what they meant, the larger man punched her in the mouth with his right fist, again and again, and then she was struck with a hammer. this part of the story is covered for now He said Julie never blocked the blows because she never saw them coming. The men made him drive around Hardin County for two hours, stopped at Julie's apartment in Rineyville, then ordered him back to the Jerry Mart. There, he said, one of them put a thin string around his neck and pulled him into the back of the van, and he lost consciousness.

He said he woke at 2 a.m. beside Julie, who had electrical tape around her neck and was making a gurgling sound. He removed the tape, turned her head, drove to Hardin Memorial Hospital, parked in the parking garage rather than at the emergency entrance, carried her in and collapsed. Julie had no cardiac or respiratory activity and was pronounced dead at 2.26 a.m. The cause of death was multiple blunt force head injuries and ligature strangulation. details of the account remain covered until revealed Dr Kevin Marble said she was not breathing and had severe head trauma.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He denied killing her, and the interview included the exchange: why did you kill her? I did not kill her. With no other proof they let him go home. this part of the story is covered for now There was a significant amount of blood inside and outside it. On 4 January 2005 a state team of lab analysts and photographers spent twelve hours on the van, taking blood swabs, dusting for prints and collecting trace evidence. The next day, 5 January, the van was returned to the company. The defence later argued that this destroyed its chance to examine the van; the courts held there was no bad faith.

The investigation looked at Boyd as well. details of the account remain covered until revealed His new girlfriend said the two of them had spent the evening at home making jelly shots and watching television. There was no evidence placing Boyd in the van, and that line of inquiry ended.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it About 7 January 2005 he proposed to his girlfriend. She wore the ring on her pinky because it would not fit her ring finger, and police took it as evidence. Julie had arrived at the hospital without three rings: an engagement ring, a wedding band and a decorative ring. this part of the story is covered for now The prosecution described the ring as a rare 0.42 carat modified marquise diamond solitaire. details of the account remain covered until revealed

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the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The motion was denied and Shaw stayed at the table, though not as lead prosecutor. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

The state's forensic specialist Edward Taylor testified that the blood spatter showed Julie was killed outside the van, because a beating inside would have left far more cast-off blood on the interior. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

The ring was the heart of it. The defence called Fred Cueller, known as Fred the Diamond Guy, founder and president of Diamond Cutters International, who testified that the Duchess cut was mass-produced, sold heavily in the 1990s in mall jewellers such as J.B. Robinson, and that the ring was worth about four hundred dollars. He said it did not weigh the same as Julie's diamond and carried a J.B. Robinson stamp, while Julie's receipt was from Leroy's Jewelers. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

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details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed Fred Cueller has continued to campaign publicly for him, arguing that the ring was not Julie's. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it