# @aldotcom on YouTube

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- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=adtWIi3tF5w
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- **Posted:** 2026-01-13T22:00:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** AL.com (@aldotcom) — https://gondola.cc/aldotcom

## Caption

In 2010, 77-year-old Myrna Estep was asleep in her home when an intruder busted in through a basement window, later leaving the house with $20 and shattering her peace of mind. She died five years later.

“The last thing you expect is to receive a phone call in the middle of the night from your mother telling you she’s been raped...You always think this doesn’t happen to you. It doesn’t happen to your family,” said Vickie Peck, Estep's daughter.

The intruder wasn't identified until Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Andrea Knight was asked to take a look at the cold case before retiring after 35 years at the sheriff’s office.

In the case files, Knight found a note and a fingerprint comparison form that mentioned similarities between the fingerprints taken from the Estep scene and two other unsolved burglaries.

Evidence pointed to the fingerprints originating from the same source. After running them through a database, Knight found a match linked to a traffic citation for an expired tag.

Along with the DNA from the Estep attack and the blood found in the other burglaries, Knight had a name.

Julian Poole, 35, pleaded guilty to first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy. As part of the plea agreement, the burglary charge was dismissed.

"I swore an oath to serve and protect, and even in death I will protect. I protected her in the sense of what she lost so someone else doesn’t lose that," said Knight.

Knight said she wanted the full story told so that it might give victims hope that their cases could and would be solved and to help other detectives in unsolved investigations.

Reporting by Carol Robinson
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