| Ties That Bind | |
| Season 04, Episode 07 | |
| Air Date | November 17, 1999 |
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Ties That Bind refers to episode 7 of the Season 4 of the television series Forensic Files which was broadcast for the first time on November 17, 1999.
Plot summary[]
In 1983, two young boys were found tied and murdered with similar wounds within three months of each other in two Nebraska towns. The rope used to tie the boys was unique. Another clue turned up when a brother of one of the boys was hypnotized and remembered a uniformed man in a tan car.
Shortly after, someone noticed a strange car and gave the licence plate number to police. This vital information led to the capture and conviction of John Joubert, an enlistee in the Air Force who carried the same exact rope used to bind the two boys. He was convicted of both murders and later confessed to the murder of an 11-year-old boy in Portland, Maine.