Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

by Kathryn Miles

Yee asked him to recall the particular shade of her rain jacket. The manager said dark blue. Wrong, said Yee. It was royal blue. Next, Yee showed the manager a photo of Julie in her shorts and sports bra. He asked the manager if he was sure that that was the woman he’d met six years earlier. The manager said yes. Yee asked the manager if he was certain there weren’t any physical differences between the woman he remembered and the person in the photo: like maybe their weight, for instance? The manager conceded that the woman in the sports bra could have been ten pounds thinner than the woman in the bulky rain jacket, but that it was hard to tell. Yee ruled the manager’s eyewitness account uncredible, saying that Julie was fit and trim to the point of being skinny and that a difference of ten pounds was surely indication that the manager had met someone else.