I don't see any mention of Dr. Mladick working on transgender patients at all. His practice does not even appear to offer those type of surgeries currently. Mladick was apparently famous for his use of saline implants -- the UID's implants were silicone. This alone would exclude Mladick from being the UID's surgeon.
That seems to be the case with regard to Dr. Richard Mladick. There were a collective of doctors in Virginia Beach, VA in the 1980s. I would suspect that the doctors with Associates In Plastic Surgery all primarily used saline implants.
Family rejection also can't be ruled out. We know that she'd had gender affirming care years before she died. The possibility exists that the family decided to act as if she died or was never born, and would not have reached out to law enforcement even if they knew she was likely a homicide victim.
Yes, I think she unfortunately probably was rejected by her family which is why nobody has come forward. But the DNA Doe Project post specifies that there's a possibility she wasn't raised by her biological family. Since they're doing genetic genealogy on her, that makes me think they suspect that one of the reasons they're hitting roadblocks is that she's adopted etc. Like if they found a second cousin and looked into all of their family but didn't find any possibilities, then it's possible that Julie was adopted out of the family or that the connection might not be one that was on paper. Like if the second cousin's cousin was Julie's father but her mother had an affair, so he's not the father on paper and thus the biological connection wouldn't help and Julie wouldn't appear in any records for the cousin's family.
Fair enough.
