Australia Australia- Julie Garciacelay, 19, librarian @ Southdown Press, missing sister's apt; blood-soaked towel & cut-up underwear found, Melbourne, July '75.

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Oct; 11, '24 by Wendy Tuohy rbbm

Julie Garciacelay. A coroner found in 2018 that the teen was murdered by persons unknown.

Easey Street breakthrough raises hopes in another cold case murder mystery

Julie Garciacelay was 19 when she vanished, presumed murdered, from her bloodied apartment in 1975. Her 92-year-old mother hopes to get answers before she dies.

www.smh.com.au

'Garciacelay hasn’t been seen since July 1975 when blood and slashed underwear were found in her North Melbourne flat.
“It gets harder,” said O’Keeffe, founder of The Missed Foundation, who will this month travel to California to meet Ruth Garciacelay, Julie’s mother.'
''Julie had only been in Melbourne for eight months when on a night in 1975 three men visited her at the apartment she shared with older sister Gail, who was out.
She worked as a librarian at the Southdown Press, and was visited at home that night by a crime reporter-colleague and two associates (both of whom are now dead).''
'The morning after Julie vanished, Gail found a blood-soaked towel and her sister’s cut-up underwear in their flat.'

''Following the arrest last month of a man over the 1977 murders of Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett in their home in Easey Street, Collingwood, Detective Senior Sergeant Tony Combridge, of the Missing Persons Squad, said those with knowledge of what happened to Julie had lived with the secret for almost five decades and “now is the time to do the right thing and come forward”.

 

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Missing person: Julie Garciacelay

Help us find missing person Julie Garciacelay. If you have information that may assist police to locate Julie, please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

www.police.vic.gov.au

''Julie Garciacelay, with long hair, and wearing a while collared shirt with a flower pattern.
First name: Julie

Last name: Garciacelay

Year of birth: 1955

Date of disappearance: Tuesday, 1 July 1975

Location: North Melbourne, Victoria

Circumstances:

Julie Garciacelay was born in Stockton, California.

She moved to Australia in 1974 when she was 19 years old.

She lived with her sister, Gail, in a flat in Canning Street, North Melbourne.

On 1 July 1975, Gail stayed at her friend’s house, leaving Julie at home.

Julie arranged to meet a man from work at her flat. This person arrived at the flat with two male friends.

When Gail arrived home, she found Julie’s underwear and pyjama pants on the floor in the kitchen. Her pyjama top and torn items of clothing were found in the bedroom.

There was evidence of alcohol consumption in the flat.

Julie’s spectacles, contact lenses, house keys and medication were all located inside the flat.

When spoken to, all three men claim to have left the premises to buy pizza, and when they returned, Julie left to make a phone call. When Julie did not return after 10 minutes, all three men left.

It is believed that Julie met with foul play.

Despite a significant investigation over the past 49 years, Julie has not been located and no one has been charged in relation to her disappearance.

If you have any information that may assist police to locate Julie, please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or make an online report (under the category 'suspicious activity or other crime').''

 

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1875DFVIC - Julie Ann Garciacelay

1875DFVIC​

Name: Julie Ann Garciacelay
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: July 1, 1975
Location Last Seen: North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Physical Description​

Date of Birth: 1956
Age: 19 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 166 cm.
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Long brown hair, olive complexion, medium build and an American accent
Eye Color: Unknown
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown

Identifiers​

Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance​

Garciacelay was last seen in North Melbourne, Victoria, on July 1, 1975.

Ms Garciacelay had traveled to Australia from California in late 1974 and worked as a library assistant at Southdown Press in La Trobe Street, where The Truth and The Australian newspapers were printed. It was there where she became friends with a former newspaper journalist and one-time suspect in the 1977 Easey Street double murders.

The man is believed to have been one of the last people to see Julie Ann Garciacelay alive on July 1, 1975.

The reporter and two of his associates visited the Canning Street, North Melbourne, flat Ms Garciacelay shared with her older sister, Gail, on the night of her disappearance. The men told detectives Ms Garciacelay had left the flat in the early evening to make a phone call and did not return.

When Ms Garciacelay's sister returned the next day she found a blood-soaked towel and other items, including Ms Garciacelay's underwear, strewn around the flat. Police later found blood on the landing and personal items at the flat, including keys and a wallet. They also found a handwritten note with a phone number on it, which the men told police was the number she had gone out to ring. A kitchen knife and a black cape were missing.

No trace of Ms Garciacelay has been found and the case has been reopened by the homicide squad's cold-case unit.

 

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2015

Teenage librarian mysteriously found dead in 1975 actually MURDERED

More than fourty years ago Ms Garciacelay disappeared from the Melbourne flat she shared with her sister leaving police stumped as they worked to pinpoint her whereabouts.

www.dailymail.co.uk

• 'An inquest has found that Julie Ann Garciacelay was murdered in July of 1975
• Ms Garciacelay disappeared from the Melbourne flat she shared with her sister
• The case revolved around men who were with her on the night she went missing
• The men said she left her flat to make a call at a phone box and never returned
• Her sister Gail reported her missing the next day after she didn't show at work '

More than fourty years ago Ms Garciacelay disappeared from the Melbourne flat (pictured) she shared with her sister
'The case has revolved around three men - a former boxer, a violent criminal and a crime reporter - who were with Ms Garciacelay on the night she disappeared.

The trio had been at Southdown Press on Latrobe Street where Ms Garciacelay was working as a library reference clerk.

She had been drawn into the group's conversation about food when she invited them over to her Canning Street apartment, the coroner's court heard on Wednesday.'

 

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28 Canning St, North Melbourne

https://maps.app.goo.gl/apCNmi7iwXtRurUX7

 

[Cliff Hardy]

One the 3 men who visited Julie that night, the reporter, John Grant, was thought by many, for decades, to have been Julie's killer.

Ironically, or otherwise, Grant was also in the near vicinity the night of the Easey Street murders. The recent arrest in Italy in relation to the Easey Street murders at least clears Grant in relation to that matter.

 

[Cliff Hardy]

Like many, l have followed this case with interest for years.

From what has been disclosed, it seems unlikely the killer is anyone other than one or more of the 3 men who visited Julie that night.

My theory, for what it is worth, is that the most likely offender is the since departed John Power, the man referred to as 'the ex boxer.'

Power had some prior 'form' and may have 'ducked back' to Canning Street after all 3 men had previously left. This would be consistent with Julie's pajama pants being found on the floor.

 

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1875DFVIC - Julie Ann Garciacelay

1875DFVIC​

Name: Julie Ann Garciacelay
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: July 1, 1975
Location Last Seen: North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Physical Description​

Date of Birth: 1956
Age: 19 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 166 cm.
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Long brown hair, olive complexion, medium build and an American accent
Eye Color: Unknown
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown

Identifiers​

Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance​

Garciacelay was last seen in North Melbourne, Victoria, on July 1, 1975.

Ms Garciacelay had traveled to Australia from California in late 1974 and worked as a library assistant at Southdown Press in La Trobe Street, where The Truth and The Australian newspapers were printed. It was there where she became friends with a former newspaper journalist and one-time suspect in the 1977 Easey Street double murders.

The man is believed to have been one of the last people to see Julie Ann Garciacelay alive on July 1, 1975.

The reporter and two of his associates visited the Canning Street, North Melbourne, flat Ms Garciacelay shared with her older sister, Gail, on the night of her disappearance. The men told detectives Ms Garciacelay had left the flat in the early evening to make a phone call and did not return.

When Ms Garciacelay's sister returned the next day she found a blood-soaked towel and other items, including Ms Garciacelay's underwear, strewn around the flat. Police later found blood on the landing and personal items at the flat, including keys and a wallet. They also found a handwritten note with a phone number on it, which the men told police was the number she had gone out to ring. A kitchen knife and a black cape were missing.

No trace of Ms Garciacelay has been found and the case has been reopened by the homicide squad's cold-case unit.

how would they know the note was of the number she'd left to call?

 

[Cliff Hardy]

how would they know the note was of the number she'd left to call?

I had the exact same reaction.

Surely she would have taken the piece of paper with the phone number on it with her to make the call and as she is said to have not returned, it makes no sense for that piece of paper to have been in the flat.

 

[LadyL]

I had the exact same reaction.

Surely she would have taken the piece of paper with the phone number on it with her to make the call and as she is said to have not returned, it makes no sense for that piece of paper to have been in the flat.

unless she returned after they left the seconds time I guess and they recognized the note cause it was in plain view before she left ...
but ... that's reaching

 

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Oct 19, 2024 #BREAKINGNEWS #7NEWS
A Melbourne church has hosted an emotional memorial service for a woman who has been missing for almost 50 years. The American was visiting Melbourne when she vanished. Her 92-year-old mother still lives in hope of a breakthrough.