ST. LOUIS — They thought his own words would be enough to convict him.
"This kind of stuff, if we were the same age, would have been no problem," Jim Wilder is heard saying on an audio recording.
In 2013, after more than a decade of silence, Emilie Morris worked up the courage to go to the police.
She told them Wilder, her former Lindbergh cross country coach, committed sex crimes against her when she was still a student.
Police asked Morris to wear a wire and Wilder was arrested and charged with multiple sex crimes.
But just before his case was set to go to trial, Morris was found dead in her apartment and her case was dropped. Her cause of death - inconclusive.
When 5 On Your Side first reported her story in 2018, Emilie's family was still hoping her case could be reopened.
But that never happened.
Last week, when the Oxygen network ran a full-length feature on Morris's case, prosecutors said if new evidence came to light, a new case might be possible.
Morris's life long friend Christine Lieber started a private Facebook page in her memory.
"I thought maybe we might have somebody come forward. I thought maybe we would have maybe a couple of hundred people join," said Lieber.
In just a few days, nearly 3,000 have joined the page -- several former students with their own stories of alleged abuse by the former coach.
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