Oct; 11, '24 by Wendy Tuohy rbbm
Julie Garciacelay. A coroner found in 2018 that the teen was murdered by persons unknown.
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'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”.
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.
“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”.
