The valentines day murders. Evidence pointed to their killer or killers repeatedly tightening and loosening the ropes around their necks as a form of torture and way of prolonging the killings. HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. -- Orange County investigators hope new technology will give them a new break in a decades-old murder. Jesse McBane, 19, and his fiancé, Patricia Mann, 20, were killed in February 1971.

Jesse was a freshman at NC State and Patricia was a nursing student at Watts Hospital.

Authorities found the couple in a wooded area near Howe Street, that's now a Durham subdivision. The couple was kidnapped, tortured, strangled, and tied to a tree. They still were clothed. They still had their property, jewellery, rings, wallets, stuff of that nature. So, robbery didn't appear to be the motive. They were bound individually around the neck  ...