Hospital Maintenance Man Has No Idea Police Just Matched His DNA to a 1991 Murder
The Denial Tapes
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Gene Stuller was 72, retired, and four years sober. He had worked maintenance at the same hospital for twenty years. On the morning of 21 April 2025 he was driving to the grocery store with his wife when police stopped the car.
He spent the next four hours telling two detectives the same short sentence. He is still telling it.
This film uses the interrogation recording, the arrest bodycam, the 1991 newspaper coverage and — for the first time anywhere — nearly two hours of his younger brother's interview, which no other account of this case has used a second of.
Gene Stuller has been charged with second-degree murder and with disturbing a dead body. He has not been convicted of anything. He is awaiting trial, and every word you hear him say is a denial he has never taken back. A jury will decide what happened on that road. It has not happened yet.
Julia Sue Wilbanks was 27 years old. She was found on 23 September 1991 beside Neptune Road, outside St. Cloud, Florida, by a landscaping crew. She lay there roughly 36 hours. Her file sat in a box for thirty-three years because somebody kept checking.
CHAPTERS
0:00 The recording
0:49 The road — September 1991
3:24 The nice fella
6:42 "Your blood was on her"
15:30 1.9 trillion
23:49 No side of the story
30:12 His brother
SOURCES
Interrogation and bodycam: Osceola County / St. Cloud Police Department released record.
Press: The Orlando Sentinel, 20 October 1991, page 275 — reporting by Henry Pierson Curtis.
Osceola News-Gazette, 1991 — reporting by Kristin Dye Hurst.
Neighbour quotes reported by People / AOL, April 2025.
The straw recovered by surveillance comes from the police account of it, not from the tape.
Maps are schematic and not to scale; areas are shown because exact addresses are not public record.
A note on what we do not do: no part of this film uses AI-generated footage, and no actor or stock model stands in for anyone in this case. Julia appears only as her real 1991 photograph.
#truecrime #interrogation #coldcase #dna
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Hospital Maintenance Man Has No Idea Police Just Matched His DNA to a 1991 Murder
The Denial Tapes
570,604 views
Gene Stuller was 72, retired, and four years sober. He had worked maintenance at the same hospital for twenty years. On the morning of 21 April 2025 he was driving to the grocery store with his wife when police stopped the car.
He spent the next four hours telling two detectives the same short sentence. He is still telling it.
This film uses the interrogation recording, the arrest bodycam, the 1991 newspaper coverage and — for the first time anywhere — nearly two hours of his younger brother's interview, which no other account of this case has used a second of.
Gene Stuller has been charged with second-degree murder and with disturbing a dead body. He has not been convicted of anything. He is awaiting trial, and every word you hear him say is a denial he has never taken back. A jury will decide what happened on that road. It has not happened yet.
Julia Sue Wilbanks was 27 years old. She was found on 23 September 1991 beside Neptune Road, outside St. Cloud, Florida, by a landscaping crew. She lay there roughly 36 hours. Her file sat in a box for thirty-three years because somebody kept checking.
CHAPTERS
0:00 The recording
0:49 The road — September 1991
3:24 The nice fella
6:42 "Your blood was on her"
15:30 1.9 trillion
23:49 No side of the story
30:12 His brother
SOURCES
Interrogation and bodycam: Osceola County / St. Cloud Police Department released record.
Press: The Orlando Sentinel, 20 October 1991, page 275 — reporting by Henry Pierson Curtis.
Osceola News-Gazette, 1991 — reporting by Kristin Dye Hurst.
Neighbour quotes reported by People / AOL, April 2025.
The straw recovered by surveillance comes from the police account of it, not from the tape.
Maps are schematic and not to scale; areas are shown because exact addresses are not public record.
A note on what we do not do: no part of this film uses AI-generated footage, and no actor or stock model stands in for anyone in this case. Julia appears only as her real 1991 photograph.
#truecrime #interrogation #coldcase #dna