New Casefile Presents podcast sheds light on 50 year old unsolved disappearance

Fifty years after the disappearance of Julie Ann Garciacelay, a new Casefile Presents podcast series is shedding new light on one of Victoria’s most troubling unsolved cases.

Julie’s Gone, hosted by award-winning journalist Helen Thomas, is being released today (31 July) in partnership with independent podcast company Acast.

Julie Garciacelay was 19 years old when she disappeared on the night of 1 July, 1975. She was last seen in her apartment in North Melbourne, where three men visited her at home that evening.

Despite police investigations over the past five decades, Julie has never been found and no one has been charged in relation to her disappearance.

In Julie’s Gone, Thomas revisits the circumstances around Julie’s disappearance, drawing on two and a half years of investigative work. She uncovers new witnesses, obtains access to the Victorian Coroner’s file on the case and speaks in depth to Julie’s mother.

Three previously unknown witnesses, including two nuns who lived in the same street as Julie, share information for the first time in the series.

Thomas said “Five decades later, the silence that’s haunted Julie’s disappearance is breaking. For justice to prevail, her story needs to be heard.”

Julie’s Gone is hosted, distributed and monetised by Acast and all episodes drop on 31 July.