He was released so that he could go live in suburban Denver, in the home of a former counselor who had offered to help him.
Then he stabbed her to death, leaving her there to bleed out and rot. That is until her body was found the very next day, at around noon, by the authorities. In the years that followed, even though they had a male DNA sample recovered from Helene’s body and clothes, the investigators found no concrete leads. They opened this cold case many times, developing a DNA profile, looking into Helene’s past and relationships, but to no avail.