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The last time I saw her was spring break. So it must have been like a couple of months before this happened.

I said, I'll see you, but I don't want to see Ian. So she had Ian come pick me up from my grandparents.

And then we went shopping and all that. She took me back to the house and wanted me to stay the night and I said, no, you need to take me home.

They took me home and my mom is like dead or missing and pursuing, you know, dead two months later. And I was just a little girl.

I don't really have anybody. That's the thing, like, well, so my grandma passed during COVID. I think she had COVID and a stroke.

And one of the last conversations, I said, you miss my mom. She said, I do, but it's too hard to talk about.

On June 18, 1985, a man walked into the Bellevue Police Department in Washington State to report that his 36-year-old wife was missing.

He couldn't recall exactly when he last seen her, but thought that it might have been the end of May or the first of June.

He told police that he and his wife of less than six months had gotten into an argument and she said that she was leaving him,

packed her belongings and walked out. When asked why he hadn't reported her missing in over two weeks, he said that he thought she'd come back.

That she had been known to leave for a few days in the past, but never for this long. Police started an investigation immediately.

And two and a half years later, on February 29, 1988, the detective working the case wrote the following in his report.

Case inactive, with strong possibility the husband is responsible for her disappearance.

And more than three decades later, this case remains unsolved. Amarissa, and from Wondery, this is Episode 329 of The Vanished.

Juliane Jolays' story.

Whether you've listened to three or three hundred episodes of this podcast, you've probably learned that when someone disappears, their spouse or significant other becomes the immediate focus of the investigation.

With some spouses cleared of any suspicion quite quickly, and others ultimately convicted of murder.

That was no different in this case, but with some unique twists.

So we decided to tell you Juliane's story a bit differently from our usual format, starting with her disappearance and working backward in time.

Juliane had married young and had a daughter, Tamra, but had been divorced from her first husband for several years and remarried a man named Ian, three days before her 36th birthday, on January 25, 1985.

Since Ian's role in this story is so pivotal, we wanted to get an idea of who he is and what the dynamics of their relationship were like.

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