By June of 1998, sixteen-year-old Nathan Ybanez couldn't take it any more. So he called his friend, seventeen-year-old Eric Jensen, to get him out of the house. And he got out, all right: In separate trials, both boys were convicted of the murder of Julie Ybanez, as detailed in Luke Turf's "Headed for Trouble," and sent to prison for life -- since Colorado law then dictated that juveniles convicted of murder as adults must be sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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