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I just found this on sarasota herald tribune website.. can anyone help??
Maybe someone near Boca might know something and can help?
Murdered woman's family is still hoping for answers
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By MICHAEL LaFORGIA
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published Monday, April 21, 2008 at 4:30 a.m.
BOCA RATON The parents of Julie Wills, a Texas beauty queen who was stabbed to death in her Boca Raton house 12 years ago, have returned, once more, to plead for help in solving the murder.
On the 12th anniversary of the crime, Art and Nancy Crum, now in their 70s, made their annual trek this weekend from Austin, Texas, to St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, where they attended a Mass before meeting with Police Chief Dan Alexander. With them was their youngest daughter, Erin Harper -- Wills' little sister.
The family has spent the past 12 years haunted by Wills' brutal murder.
"It's tough but it's something I'm going to do until they put me in the ground," Art Crum said of the trip to Boca Raton. "I just want to know who killed my daughter, and why."
On April 12, 1996, the 32-year-old Wills went to a friend's birthday party with her ex-boyfriend, Steven Flacco, whom she had met while competing in a beauty pageant in the Bahamas. It was Flacco who brought Wills to Boca Raton in 1994, and the pair apparently remained friends after their breakup.
Flacco told police he and Wills returned to his house after the party and that afterward she went home alone.
Two days later, Flacco told police, he found Wills undressed, lying in a pool of blood on her kitchen floor. She had been stabbed to death.
A second man in Wills' life, Paul Southern, whom Wills had met a month earlier on a flight from Dallas and Honolulu, told police he had paged Wills while she was with Flacco after the birthday party, and that she had later told him Flacco had questioned her angrily about the pages.
Flacco told police he went fishing, played golf and had dinner with a friend in Fort Lauderdale before he found Wills' body on Sunday, April 14, 1996. He said he drove to her house that night after he could not reach her on the phone.
Soon after, Flacco stopped cooperating with detectives, who asked him to take a police-administered polygraph test 10 days after the murder. He refused.
His attorney has maintained his innocence.
Nancy Crum said her daughter's absence rings out new every day.
"People talk about closure. There isn't any closure," she said. "If you've lost a child, that's it for you."
Art Crum said he is convinced someone knows details about the murder but has yet to offer them to detectives.
"For 12 years I've asked this person to come forward," Crum said. "I ask again."
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Last modified: April 21, 2008 4:17am
Maybe someone near Boca might know something and can help?
Murdered woman's family is still hoping for answers
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By MICHAEL LaFORGIA
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published Monday, April 21, 2008 at 4:30 a.m.
BOCA RATON The parents of Julie Wills, a Texas beauty queen who was stabbed to death in her Boca Raton house 12 years ago, have returned, once more, to plead for help in solving the murder.
On the 12th anniversary of the crime, Art and Nancy Crum, now in their 70s, made their annual trek this weekend from Austin, Texas, to St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, where they attended a Mass before meeting with Police Chief Dan Alexander. With them was their youngest daughter, Erin Harper -- Wills' little sister.
The family has spent the past 12 years haunted by Wills' brutal murder.
"It's tough but it's something I'm going to do until they put me in the ground," Art Crum said of the trip to Boca Raton. "I just want to know who killed my daughter, and why."
On April 12, 1996, the 32-year-old Wills went to a friend's birthday party with her ex-boyfriend, Steven Flacco, whom she had met while competing in a beauty pageant in the Bahamas. It was Flacco who brought Wills to Boca Raton in 1994, and the pair apparently remained friends after their breakup.
Flacco told police he and Wills returned to his house after the party and that afterward she went home alone.
Two days later, Flacco told police, he found Wills undressed, lying in a pool of blood on her kitchen floor. She had been stabbed to death.
A second man in Wills' life, Paul Southern, whom Wills had met a month earlier on a flight from Dallas and Honolulu, told police he had paged Wills while she was with Flacco after the birthday party, and that she had later told him Flacco had questioned her angrily about the pages.
Flacco told police he went fishing, played golf and had dinner with a friend in Fort Lauderdale before he found Wills' body on Sunday, April 14, 1996. He said he drove to her house that night after he could not reach her on the phone.
Soon after, Flacco stopped cooperating with detectives, who asked him to take a police-administered polygraph test 10 days after the murder. He refused.
His attorney has maintained his innocence.
Nancy Crum said her daughter's absence rings out new every day.
"People talk about closure. There isn't any closure," she said. "If you've lost a child, that's it for you."
Art Crum said he is convinced someone knows details about the murder but has yet to offer them to detectives.
"For 12 years I've asked this person to come forward," Crum said. "I ask again."
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Last modified: April 21, 2008 4:17am
