UK UK- Julie Perigo, Sex Worker, Fatally stabbed & Brutalized @ home, Sunderland, 23 May 1986 *DNA*

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May 2021

Julie Perigo murder 35 years on: Police say they continue to review case and will act on any new information

Police say they will continue to act on any new information as Sunderland’s oldest unsolved murder marks 35th anniversary.

www.sunderlandecho.com

By Poppy Kennedy
''The body of Julie Perigo was found at her blood-splattered home in Kidderminster Road, in the Downhill area of Sunderland, on May 23, 1986.

Police made the discovery when they forced their way into the mother of two’s flat after a relative was concerned about her welfare.

Julie, who was last seen alive by a neighbour on May 16, died of shock and bleeding due to multiple stab wounds.''

''Julie, who was a prostitute and a former stripper, was last seen a week before her death and had told a friend that she was due to meet a client at lunchtime on May 16.

Despite the thousands of interviews – which included tests taken after developments in DNA forensics later the same decade – her attacker has still not been caught.''

''Aside from recent cases still actively going through the legal system, the killing is the oldest of four unsolved murders in Sunderland. All four cases remain open and are subject to periodic reviews by detectives.''

 

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2017 rbbm.

Unsolved murder series: The 1986 killing of Julie Perigo

We're taking a look at the murders which are linked to Wearside where the killer has never been found

www.chroniclelive.co.uk

''The attack on Julie Perigo was described as “frenzied” at the time.

She was butchered mercilessly in her own home, a one-bedroom council flat on Kidderminster Road, Sunderland .''

''It was May 23, 1986. Julie was 51.

Somebody had inflicted an unthinkable level of violence on her body.

We still don’t know why it happened - and we still don’t know who did it''

''Julie’s body wasn’t discovered until a week after she died.

Her sister, who was living in Sussex, raised concerns that she wasn’t picking up her phone.

Police forced entry into the one-bedroom flat and were met by a scene of human carnage.

She had been stabbed countless times and reportedly sustained other injuries that are too graphic to recount.''


“We had a dangerous person on the loose in Sunderland and no one knew they were.

“I remember worrying about our clients because we felt that some of them could be at risk.

“Somewhere out there was a very violent person who had a deep hatred of women.

“That person could have been young at the time.

“They could still be out there.”

''Julie kept diaries - lots of them, filled with the names of men who paid her for sex.

If it was a client who killed her, the police had a ready-made register of potential suspects in their hands.

But that created its own problems.

Julie advertised herself in classified magazines and had clients from across the UK.

The list would lead police into a much more far-ranging investigation than they might have originally expected.

Using the diaries as a starting point, officers interviewed as many as 6000 people in relation to the murder.''

 

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https://www.northumbria.police.uk/media/2071949/foi-722-13_tcm4-94452.pdf

''Julie Perigo – discovered at her home address having suffered multiple stab wounds. 3 males arrested and interviewed, with no charges resulting.''

 

[JustJo]

I've never heard of this case, despite having lived in Sunderland for the past 6 years. For 2 of those years I lived in the estate next to Downhill.

It sounds like Julie suffered a horrific death and it's worrying to think whoever did it is still out there.

To me it definitely seems like it would have been one of her clients.

 

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