Hi,Unfortunately, the 250k reward does not appear to cover situations where someone provides WA Police with info that leads to solving this suspicious missing persons cold case, if Julie were to be found alive having changed her identity in a way that was not known to Australian authorities. Or the change in identity was known to some Australian authorities, if it was done legally with their assistance for a valid reason.
mrskafoops: Did you only ever find one facial pic of that person that looks a bit like Julie Cutler pic you posted last night?
Because if you did, maybe you should look a bit harder.
Maybe it's just a relative of Julies.
Possibly one that went through a change of name?
Or just another one of those coincidences with the human face.
The following Post newspaper article on Julie that appears at the findagrave website is worth a read and lists her similar age 'full' sister's name as Nicole.
Just ignore the typos
- TAFE should be TAE
- Death year of 1998 should be 1988
- Age at death 32-33 (should be ten years less)
'Mrs Cutler died from cancer when Julie and her sister Nicole were young girls.
Julie Leanne Cutler (1965-1988) - Find a Grave...
The family of Julie Cutler once thought by police to be the first victim of the Claremont Serial Killer, say they finally feel able to erect a graveside plaque accepting her death. It has been 20 years since 23-year-old's car was towed from the surf at Cottesloe beach two day's after she left a...www.findagrave.com
Their father Roger remarried and had four more children - Rachel, Rebecca, Alexander and Jessica.
"But mum and dad talk about her often as does Nicole - they were around the same age and very close, and had grown up together. Nicole has four kids of her own.'
'REWARD:
MISSING (SUSPICIOUS) - JULIE LEANNE CUTLER - PERTH WA - $250,000 Reward - Crime Stoppers Western Australia
DESCRIPTION: 22 years of age at time of disappearance. Light skinned. Dark brown shoulder length hair. 160cm (5 feet 3 inches) tall. Medium build. Green eyes. Last seen wearing a black evening dress with a high collar and gold buttons on the shoulder and black patent leather shoes. Carrying a...www.crimestopperswa.com.au
On 19 June 2018, the Government of Western Australia announced a $250,000 reward for information which leads to the apprehension and conviction of the person, or persons, responsible for Julie’s disappearance.
The Government may also be prepared to consider recommending a protection from prosecution, or pardon for any informant with information that leads to the conviction of the person or persons responsible for the disappearance, provided that the informant was not directly responsible for the disappearance of Julie Cutler.'
I'll have a squizz & post if I have it. I do have a note of all the articles I've seen or have copies of over the years with the main points covered in each & can tell you for certain it was a Daily News article published 30 June 1988.
And it wasn’t perfect. He didn’t get to rape Ciara and he stopped after that. She fought pretty hard.
This article says she was driving home from work when this happened near Eric street. To go that way home she would have turned right onto mounts bay road not left like she did on the night she went missing. So this must mean she was definitely going somewhere else. Is there confirmed sightings of her at the Racquet club?
Also why no pants or skirt?
Streets weren't the same back then & I don't think you could turn right out of Mill St. This image is from 1983 but I'm almost certain it was the same in 1988.
You had to go down & make a right turn onto William & another onto The Esplanade before veering back onto Mounts Bay Rd to continue around the river to Stirling Highway.
It makes me shudder to think of what other evidence has been thrown out over the years!! Regarding the items found in 1988- what i found was really odd was that at the time they were identified as NOT belonging to Julie - by her family - then why? suddenly years later what made them think the items may/did belong to Julie?? new info? I'm sure the Police know more than they are letting on- surely if this information - again - was made public, it may trigger memories or suspicions.I'd forgotten the detail about her possibly going to the Casino mentioned in the article here & also that they were quite sure her car was just driven down the service road & dropped into the sea, before drifting out to where it was eventually found when the ocean settled & could be seen.
I still find it a little odd that the destroyed items deemed not to be, but may have been Julie's in hindsight, were recovered so close to where the naked deceased guy (45) was found at the base of the cliff at Beach Rd so soon after she disappeared.
Anyone recall his story now? Did we ever know?
I know it's covering old ground, but could the items really have been in the sand from mid 1988 till they were recovered in 1994-1995 & what genius authorised them to be destroyed just year later if it's since been deemed significant enough to prompt at least 4 searches of the dunes in that location since? Seems unbelievable they could have operated with such an ineffective database that couldn't cross reference a damn thing for so long, but, maybe why Macro decided to go into the property room lockdown we though so odd at the time, just to sort the sh*t out finally? Begs the question then, what else have they destroyed over the years & why wasn't it fixed long ago?
(Full text of article below copied from this link).
Last paragraph seems to imply more than they'd ever say, but makes me question if they believe they know far more about what actually happened, without any proof?
What happened to Julie Cutler? 30 years on, the question still remains
Nothing would make Ron Carey happier for the case of Julie Cutler to be solved.www.google.com
WAtoday
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This was published 3 years ago
What happened to Julie Cutler? 30 years on, the question still remains
By Phil Hickey
May 8, 2018 — 11.50am
Nothing would make Ron Carey happier than for the case of Julie Cutler to be solved.
The former WA Police detective gave everything he had to try and get to the bottom of her disappearance in 1988.
Alas, Mr Carey and his team - in what was then the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) - were unable to provide any answers to the Cutler family.
“It was disappointing to go into retirement knowing that we had not been able to establish what had happened to Julie Cutler,” Mr Carey told WAtoday.
“I would have liked to have been able to tell Julie’s father and family what had happened to his daughter, so they could have at least had closure.”
It has been 30 years since Julie Cutler went missing in Perth. The 22-year-old was last seen leaving the Parmelia Hilton Hotel in the Perth CBD about 12.30am on June 20, 1988 after a staff function.
Two days later her car was found in the ocean at Cottesloe beach.
Apart from several Parmelia Hilton champagne flutes in the four-door Fiat, nothing else significant was found inside the vehicle.
No belongings, no clothing. No body.
The back seat of the car had washed up on the beach.
A shoulder bag Ms Cutler was known to carry has also never been found.
WAtoday can reveal a review of the case file was carried out last year by the Cold Case Homicide Squad in an attempt to unearth new clues.
But to this day no charges have been laid in connection to the case and Ms Cutler's body has never been located.
In an interview with WAtoday, Mr Carey, who spent 30 years with WA Police, reflected on the three decade old mystery.
He believes that by speaking out, there is a chance someone in the community who knows what happened will finally come forward after all these years.
Mr Carey, who rose to the rank of superintendent before retiring in 2005, first became attached to the case when he was sent to Cottesloe beach, the day Ms Cutler's car was found.
He was then a detective senior constable.
“When we received the report that a vehicle registered in Ms Cutler’s name had been found in the ocean at Cottesloe beach, I guess we expected the worst, thinking that we might find her body inside the car,” he said.
“When the vehicle was found to be empty, we began our inquiry in earnest to establish what had happened to her.”
Over the next few days Mr Carey searched the 22-year-old's home, spoke to her work colleagues and guests of the hotel and examined her car with a fine-toothed comb.
"After we recovered Julie’s vehicle...we were able to establish that one of the rear doors of her car couldn't be locked,” he said.
“So we looked at the possibility that someone may have secreted themselves in the back seat while it was parked at the hotel without her knowing and that she was forced to drive somewhere.”
Mr Carey said some time after the 22-year-old went missing, police received information which suggested she could have gone to the Burswood Casino after she left the Parmelia.
"We went there but unfortunately the CCTV footage did not extend back to the night she disappeared," he said.
“In the months following Julie’s disappearance, we spoke to numerous people in the hope we might have been able to establish what had happened to her.
“Despite our best efforts, we were not able to solve this mystery”.
The former cop believes Ms Cutler succumbed to whatever fate she met in a five-hour window between 12.30am on June 20 and daybreak that morning.
"In my view someone must have intervened between the time Julie left the Parmelia Hotel and daybreak,” he said.
“(For the car) to have found its way into the ocean, we concluded that it must have been driven off or rolled off the wall straight into the water where it must have floated momentarily, before being taken out with the motion of the waves, before sinking to the floor of the ocean.
“We were able to arrive at that conclusion because there was no sign of the vehicle at the beach when the regular swimmers arrived at daybreak to undertake their daily exercises.
“That particular night, there were strong winds and rain to the extent that the waves were lapping the retaining the wall of the Cottesloe Surf Club.
“It had to go into the water that night because the next day, the water had subsided, the tide had gone out leaving a wide gap of sand between the edge of the retaining wall and the surf.”
Mr Carey said he was convinced Ms Cutler was never in the car when it went into the water.
He said this was because nothing belonging to her was ever found on the ocean floor, or washed-up on the beach.
“Knowing that the back seat of her vehicle was able to find its way to the beach, we would have expected that something belonging to Julie would have washed up, had she been in the vehicle," he said.
The former cop said he often wondered if there was someone who could have helped police solve the case in 1988, but who chose not to come forward.
“All these years later I am still wondering if that person did exist, then maybe their relationship with the person or persons responsible for Julie’s disappearance has changed or soured to the point whereby he or she no longer feels the need to remain silent,” he said.
“That being the case, I call on those persons to do the right thing.”
Senior Sergeant Quentin Flatman, of the Cold Case Homicide Squad, said police remained committed to finding out what happened to Ms Cutler.
“The suspicious disappearance of Julie Cutler in 1988 is an open and active case at the Cold Case Homicide Squad," he said. "The WA Police Force is committed to solving this and other long-term unsolved missing persons cases."
Anyone who has information about the circumstances of Julie Cutler's disappearance can contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or www.crimestopperswa.com.au.
Reward offered
A $250,000 reward is being offered for information about Ms Cutler's disappearance, with police saying her family has been waiting in "pain and aguish".
The reward is for information that leads to the conviction of the person, or people, responsible for Ms Cutler's disappearance, as detectives launch a fresh investigation into the case.
The state government said it may also be prepared to consider recommending protecting an informant from prosecution, provided they weren't directly responsible for her disappearance.
Phil Hickey
There were coins in the purse that would have date stamps. I wonder if there were any post 1988? Maybe they think the stuff is not Julie’s but are just searching the area to err on the side of caution because you never know right?
"Officially" the line was that they showed relatives when it was handed in 1996 who dismissed them as being hers. They first searched in 2002 as part of Macro, then a review brought the images back to the families attention in 2018 who said they may have been her's afterall.
I've linked articles from Trove, which shows that there might of been a motive to abduct someone named Julie Cutler to extort money for financial gain, or even revenge for financial loss. And I've linked articles, a UNSW project and social media posts showing a route of acquaintances for information to reach someone like David Everett to form this motivation.
I have also linked articles to show antecedents exists of abductions to extort money within a few years after Julie's disappearance. The same articles show that David Everett was living in Perth at the time of Julie's disappearance.
IMO, for all the extraneous circumstances to this case to fit into this would require a fair degree of planning, and prior training to be able to achieve this without being caught, and no lack of compunction to abort at any time and dispose of Julie without any moral quandary.
I'll now attach an extract from a Kindle sample (which is free from Amazon) of the book Shadow Warrior, which I think clearly shows this.
IMO, In this chapter he seems to of learnt some lessons from past endeavors of a similar nature judging by his narrative. Did that include Julie Cutler?
I'll leave this theory now to you to ponder.
Motive
Opportunity
Means
I note that an alibi for David Everett nor any evidence that would strongly refute this kidnap abduction theory has yet come forward. It still must therefore be considered to be in play.
There are plenty of possibilities. The ex boyfriend one was eliminated early on by WA Police. Most of the others don't fit the circumstances that occurred prior to her disappearance. The Everett kidnapping theory does however fit. He cased his victims, broke into their homes and followed them whilst planning his crimes, and he aborted them, and was prepared to kill his victims or police when things went wrong.It's probably safe to eliminate the first group of theories where Julie acted alone.
Family reported that she wasn't suicidal, and didn't drink excessively. She didn't seem to be short of money. She hasn't shown up over the decades
Of the second group of theories
Police were reported as saying that the ex boyfriend is not a suspect. The family reported that she didn't have any enemies. The media article above suggests that Police believe more than 1 person involved, so if that's the case it would eliminate theories involving a single actor, the road rage cop, the serial killer, etc. We would theoretically be left with scenarios involving a kidnapping team, a gang, or a group etc.
However, if the break in at her flat and the vehicle incident on Stirling Hwy, are related, then that would further eliminate scenarios involving random opportunity.
IMO that leaves kidnapping for extortion as the most likely, and since IMO there's enough to substantiate an accusation that Vernon Silich had enough knowledge and David Everett had been proven to be capable and willing to do similar, and they were both in Perth, I'm of the opinion that with a little more supportive evidence, like somebody coming forward to say that the two knew each other, then this line of inquiry must be worth following up by WA Police IMO.
Now go and prove there's evidence to eliminate David Everett from being a POI.
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Say Julie
If the break in at her flat in Fremantle and the car following and harassing her on Stirling Highway Mosman Park both weeks prior to her disappearance, were committed by the person responsible for her disappearance then theories of opportunity attacks, random attack, or sudden crimes of passion, rage etc wouldn't fit. This limits the theories that fit with the elements that Nicole asserted that the family considers as essential elements to be considered in her sister's disappearance.
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Wow.. I spent quite a lot of time there when it was Devilles Pad
I think we can rule out BRE. As for Everett.. didn’t his wife fall pregnant in 1987? Not sure what kind of woman she is but naturally women nest, set up their homes for the baby. Even a hardened,
it would be a bit far to walk there from the parmelia …
My understanding is that Everett was a pretty smart guy, he followed and researched his targets. I can't see him mistaking Julie the aunt for Julie the niece. There would have been a huge age gap, they worked at different places, drove different cars and lived in different suburbs(?) So I am leaning towards Sillich - if I had to choose. Does any one have a photo of the Aunt for comparison??
Everett was trained by the SAS, so he had the skills for it, but he wasn't trained in intelligence and subsequently he made a lot of mistakes in his offending. Maybe he went down to Julie's uncle's place in Rockingham, saw Julie's car, followed it to Fremantle, broke into her flat, found enough just to confirm the name. Saw an article describing her aunt's work at Nedlands and Mosman Park libraries, hung around Mosman Park saw the car again, thought he had the right person and tried to intercept for a kidnapping. 1st attempt failed, then did it again on the night of her disappearance. Put the car in the most public place, but the ocean swept it away, left the bag of clothes but forgot the ransom note.
Agree. As with all scenario's everyone has put forward, there are lots of maybe's and what if's. If only we could find one little 'definite' !! But there are none. A couple of things I would like to know/see happen -
