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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

15-year-old Girl Found Raped, Stabbed to Death in Cornfield

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.2 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Julie Ann Hanson was just 15 years old when her body was discovered in a Naperville, Illinois, cornfield. She had been sexually assaulted and stabbed 36 times. On the evening Hanson vanished, she had been seen riding her bicycle to a brother’s baseball game. An older sister reported her missing the following afternoon, as her parents were not home when she disappeared, according to the newspaper. Hanson’s body was found later in the day in a cornfield about two miles from her house. Joining Nancy Grace today:Andrew Singer - Bode Technologies, BodeTech.com, Instagram/Twitter @BodeTechnologyAshley Willcott - Judge and Trial Attorney, Anchor on Court TV, www.ashleywillcott.com Caryn Stark - NYC Psychologist, www.carynstark.com Robert Crispin - Private Investigator, “Crispin Special Investigations” www.CrispinInvestigations.comDr. Tim Gallagher - Medical Examiner State of Florida www.pathcaremed.com, Lecturer: University of Florida Medical School Forensic Medicine. Founder/Host: International Forensic Medicine Death Investigation Conference Lisa Farver - Field Editor, Patch Media, Patch.com Chicago

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0:25.1

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0:28.8

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0:33.3

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0:39.8

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0:44.4

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0:46.8

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

1:01.0

A little girl bars her brother's bike to go just a few blocks.

1:06.2

She's never seen a live again. Her body found soon after and then somehow the case goes cold.

1:17.6

Until now.

1:26.0

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

1:27.7

In July of 1972, 49 years ago, a young girl by the name of Julie Hanson, age 15,

1:42.2

spiraled her brother's bike to go to a baseball game.

1:46.8

Julie never returned home. She was reported missing to the Naperville Police Department

1:52.1

and the Department of the following day put together an exhaustive search for Julie,

2:01.1

along with members of the community. The bike was discovered on a gravel road of 87th Street

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