Julie Finley
CASE SUMMARY
On Saturday 6th of August 1994, the lifeless body of Julie Finley was found by an unsuspecting member of the public, just outside the quaint village of Rainford, located in the Northwest of England. She had been strangled, stripped and left face down in a field just metres away from a busy dual carriageway.
A large scale murder investigation would go on to recover some of the victim’s clothes over 13 miles away, in addition to a number of key witnesses – one of whom claimed to have found a nude woman in the back of a van pleading for help at the place and time the murder occurred. Despite these and number of other promising leads, the killer remains unidentified.
Thanks to all of the creators who allowed me to use footage from their respective YouTube channels in this video, and an extra special shout out to Gareth Olley for the fantastic drone footage captured especially for this project.
SINCE THE VIDEO WAS RELEASED…
The April 1995 episode of Crimewatch surfaced on YouTube, in which Julie’s case is discussed at length and features a full reconstruction of events the night she was killed, in addition to interviews with her mother Pat and the lead investigator DCI Francis Youell. In case it gets taken down, the below video has been backed up here on the Crime Portal website:
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