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Host
Hello, Casefile listeners. Casefile will be back with brand new episodes in just two short days. But until then, you can listen to the newest Casefile Present series, Julie's Gone, produced and reported by investigative journalist Helen Thomas, who brought you the Easy Street Murders series. Julie's Gone investigates The disappearance of 19 year old Julianne Garcia Sale, who went missing from her Melbourne apartment in July 1975. Julie had only recently arrived in Australia from the U.S. three men were with her that night, one of whom would be linked to the Easy street murders. Just 18 months later, the men claimed Julie left the apartment to make a phone call and never returned. No trace of her has ever been found. Now, five decades later, Helen Thomas has uncovered new evidence, witnesses and fresh leads in one of Australia's most haunting cold cases. Julie's Gone is available now. Wherever you get your podcasts, stay tuned to listen to the trailer.
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Narrator
Fifty years ago, on the first night in July 1975, Julianne Garcia Soleil vanished. Nine days shy of her 20th birthday, the Californian teenager who'd been living with her sister in Melbourne was just gone.
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Julianne's Mother
She wasn't a kid that took off. If she was going someplace, she let you know. And I thought, well, she's got to come back. I never dreamed. What parent dreams of anything like this?
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Narrator
On the evening Julie disappeared, three men shared pizza and beer with her in her inner city apartment. And for the past five decades, they've been the only persons of interest in the case.
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Witness
I just can't remember the details at all. You know, it was all happy, friendly. There was no, you know, we went over there for a drink and that was it. She went away and we got tired of waiting and left.
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Narrator
In the days after Julie went missing, police failed to canvass her neighbors about what they saw that night she disappeared. But Casefile Presents has spoken to witnesses who say a young woman was dragged into a car that night from a phone box that was apparently Julie's last known location. Yet at the time, these witnesses weren't interviewed by police. Three men, they came and they grabbed her. Grabbed her and put her into the car. And she lost her shoe.
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Julianne's Mother
Yeah.
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Narrator
Was it Julie they witnessed being thrown into the car that night and what happened once the car sped off down the street?
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Investigator
They have fully fingerprinted the flat. The chemist took samples of what appeared to be blood from the kitchen from a tea towel located on Julie's bed, from the bathroom, from a stairwell and telephone booth opposite the flat.
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Narrator
Julie's mother flew to Australia a couple of times after her 19 year old daughter disappeared on the first night in July 1975, imploring police to keep investigating.
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Julianne's Mother
I want the police never to close the case. Never. I don't want this case to be closed. In the dead file.
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Narrator
No charges have ever been laid in this case. In Case File presents Julie's Gone. We asked, is it too late for justice? What happened to Julieann Garcy Salain?
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Julianne's Mother
And I asked him, what did you do? Please tell me what you did with my daughter. And that's when he took his finger and he went across his neck like you would cut into somebody's throat.
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Narrator
Casefile presents Julie's Gone will be available on July 31st. Wherever you get your podcasts.