I know this is totally irrational, but I'm going to talk about it anyway. Sometime in late 2003 a reporter from a local television station knocked on my door and asked how long I'd lived in this block of flats. He advised me that a girl had disappeared in 1975 and was assumed murdered because copious amounts of blood had been found in her flat and on the landing. The Victorian police opened this cold case and were reinvestigating the woman's disappearance because her mother, who lived in California had made a plea for information. I asked the reporter if my flat was where she had lived, but he wouldn't tell me. I became totally convinced after seeing the original footage of the layout of the flat screened on Melbourne television in 1975 that she did indeed live in the flat that I now occupy (I may be wrong). Her name was Julie Ann Garciacelay and I believed, for some strange reason that she was trying to contact me. It may simply be that I am sensitive to place and the energies generated. Although Julie disappeared on 1 July 1975, I always think of her around this time of year. Because she played the piano so well her mother set up a music scholarship in her name at the Humboldt State University. So, every year at this time I listen to classical music in remembrance of the ninetten year girl who has never been found. I'm beginning to think that there's something to synchronity - when I was admitted to hospital last July (for extreme vertigo) the nurse who was aiding me noted my address and said 'what about those sunsets'! She had lived in the flat for many years before me - think of all the variables that had to occur for us to meet and be able to talk about the amazing view I have outside my lounge-room window! A small thing perhaps - perhaps not!
(For more information on Julie Ann Garciacelay see):
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/14/1065917412889.html
I was a bodyguard for miss Garciacelay in 1975 when she was in Melbourne to find her daughter,i hope that miss Garciacelay has found the truth of what happend to Julie
ReplyDeleteWere you, how interesting. I haven't seen any information about whether the police turned up any new evidence after their 2003 investigation. I think it will probably remain a 'cold case'. I suggested flippantly that she may have been buried underneath the concrete before the back car park was built behind the block of flat, but the reporter told me that there was speculation around the time of her disappearance that her body was probably dumped in an unknown place. Sorry to talk about her like this, but one must assume she is deceased.
ReplyDeleteI've just re-read this post again and have noticed another strange co-incidence. I had an article published with Humboldt University - I'm not saying this means anything, I'm just interested in the connections, and, on that note, a few weeks back a detective with the Victoria Police knocked on my door asking information about my next door neighbors in relation to a Prahran night club murder. In discussion I discovered that the officer had the Garciacelay cold case file on his desk. Spooky!
ReplyDeleteHow sad this Story is. And how sad this story is forgotten.
ReplyDeleteI just want to say that the main suspect in this case was also the main suspect in the easey street murders. This case should never be forgotten. This is our city. And this Story is a blight on our city and an incredible shame for all that live here. We never will forget walsh street and other crimes. Sadly the murder of Julie and the two Sues seems all but forgotten. But it should not be that way. And why do we all think that these two crimes are connected. Why does it happen that every time you read about Julies murder that the murder of the two sues also comes up. Why? Because the main suspect in both cases was the same person. Why has this not be written about more? Why do people forget? Why why why?
Anonymous ~ I guess, out of sight, out of mind, but it is a cold case that is being investigated. I agree with you, murders are a 'blight on our city...'. Maybe this case says something about the way investigations were conducted in the 70s...I don't know...it's a difficult one. I feel sorry for her family.
ReplyDeleteCould you please contact me at noel.turner@monash.edu please Julie.
ReplyDeleteHi, there was a coroners inquest in 2018 and it gives her address including flat number - so sad for her family especially being so far away ��https://www.coronerscourt.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2018-12/juliecarciacelay_215801.pdf
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