Send Students Re-examine Cold Murder Case

Posted: 3:20 PM May 27, 2012
Reporter: Associated Press

Nebraska Wesleyan College students are re-examining the unsolved killing of a North Platte teen found dead in 1996.

Katie Sheets, a graduate student from North Platte, says an
assignment for forensic science class was to review a cold case.

So, she turned to the disappearance of Julie Derrick.

Derrick was 19-years-old when she went missing in October 1995. Two swimmers found her body weighted down in a sandpit west of Hershey in July 1996.

Sheets has been reviewing case files and evidence. She says the
state now of the some of the samples is questionable and others
were improperly handled.

Lincoln County chief sheriff's deputy Roland Kramer says that
based on the students' work, authorities will conduct more
interviews in the case.

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