Has anyone seen this story on Lifetime? I found this description in the episode guide. I'm positive I've seen the other two stories mentioned:

May 3, 1989

A report on the 1980 Los Angeles murder of U.S. Secret Service agent Julie Y. Cross who was conducting surveillance on an alleged counterfeiting operation. Also the FBI's 18 year search for a Massachusetts coed charged with robbery and the killing of a bank guard; and new evidence about the flight of two French aviators who may have crossed the Atlantic before Charles Limbergh.

I don't remember the Julie Cross case, but I do remember the last two. It could have been they were in another episode though. There are plenty of UM's episodes I haven't seen.

I don't think I've ever seen the case but I did find a link about it. It seems that some people were convicted of her murder and sentenced to death 12 years after she was killed in the line of duty. You can read about it on: www.nleomf.com/WhatsNew/OfficerofMonth/henry.html (it starts on the 6th paragraph). It would make a very interesting book, but I don't know if it was made into one. If anyone has any more information on this case, please share.

I dont recall the Julie Cross either...how odd that no one seems to remember it? If anyone gets a picture of her, perhaps they can post it here and maybe jog our memories?

Originally posted by CrushedVelvet
I dont recall the Julie Cross either...how odd that no one seems to remember it?

It could be one of those stories Lifetime is keeping out of rotation.

Justin

Yea, I'm really suprised that Lifetime doesn't show this one more often (or at all, I never remember seeing it). I think it said she was the first female Secret Service Agent killed in the line of duty. Her killer was found and sentenced to death. I'm not sure how to post pictures, but I did find a website with her picture on it at www.sameshield.com/heroes/

I also came across an interesting website called www.thememoryhole.org that had a list of Secret Service videotapes that you could request and see if they would release to you. "Julie Cross Shooting" was one of the videotapes listed.

I'm sick of Lifetime "selecting" episodes to show. Instead of repeating stories from the past 6 months(which they have TWICE in the last week, why don't they show episodes that either haven't been shown in years or have never been shown.)UGH!!! :mad:!

I agree with you Brent, I remember how you said you liked all the old episodes the best like myself. I did however tape some new episodes last week and filled up a 6HR tape, so it really hasn't been that bad. The repeats that annoy me include the Comedy Store which it looks like they will be showing again. They also showed a week or two ago on the 1AM Sun. episode, the Sci-Med segment with the dogs and their sensitive noses. Dogs are great but when I see the intro to the segment with the guy walking the floppy ear dog, I switch channels.

The episode that was on this past Saturday Night was on back in the Fall! So annoying... hopefully some network will pick it up after Lifetime and show ALL episodes intact. Lifetime also cuts some stories out of some shows and sticks them in with others, which makes it impossible to find the episode on the guide. Very annoying.

The reason I don't like the later episodes is they contained more stupid stories and also had repeat segments in every episode. I'd rather watch the old segments in the original episodes. Why Lifetime did that is BEYOND me. Plus in today's episode, I had seen all but the first story from earlier episodes and the one I haven't seen was mothers communicating with their dead children! :mad:!

I hope the production company will put it out on DVD, and have the pre-Stack specials as well. I would LOVE that!! Intact and unedited. PERFECT! :cool:!

Well I didn't think the Julie Cross segment ever aired on Lifetime but I received a Lifetime episode from around '93 recently and was suprised to see it on there as well as a brief update. RS said that Andre Steven Alexander was arrested for the crime 12 years after her murder (I do know there were two people involved in the crime but am unsure if the second one was ever apprehended). Anyway he's on death row in San Quentin and here's a little more about the case:

Andre Alexander
Sentenced: April 23, 1996, age 43

Residence: Inglewood

Crime: Murder of a U.S. Secret Service agent

Date of crime: June 4, 1980

Location: Interceptor Street and Belford Avenue, Westchester

Victim: U.S. Secret Service Agent Julie Cross, 26

Status: Briefed on appeal, awaiting oral argument


Armed robbers ambushed Cross and her partner, Lloyd Bulman, as they conducted surveillance in a counterfeiting investigation.

Cross got out of the car and pulled her .357-caliber revolver, but Alexander disarmed her, grabbed the shotgun from her car and shot her at point-blank range.

Bulman was thrown to the ground. Shotgun pellets hit him, but narrowly missed his head.

Nothing happened for 12 years in the case until Alexander was arrested as a suspect in the 1978 killings of a counterfeit money order printer, his girlfriend and another man in Palms.

The investigator in that case, Los Angeles police Detective Richard “Buck” Henry, came across the composite drawing of the Cross suspect and recognized Alexander, a former classmate at Venice High School.

Alexander already was serving three life terms for the Palms killings when he received his death sentence.

Hmmm, well obviously this guy had killed before, but I hope they had more on him than just that his composite looked like that of a detective's high school classmate. If he is the right guy, well then good riddance to him, obviously he was already in prison where he needed to be so that is good. However with California's death penalty all messed up he will probably not be executed anytime soon. He probably has another 10 to 15 years of appeals left.