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Julie Hill was 21 in 1980 she lived in an apartment in Duluth, Minnesota with her two dogs

On July 18th two days before a birthday

Julie's mom reported her daughter missing

Some members of her family believed that Julie had left town and become a sex worker

The thing was not only did Julie leave her dogs behind she'd also left her purse, clothes and other essential belongings

Julie had also left her dinner

Still cooking on the stove

Julie's cousin Christine had been told stories about Julie

But she didn't share her family's belief that she had intentionally left without a trace

Christine believed it was likely that Julie had been murdered

From Annie this is cold case files

I'm Brooke and here's the fascinating Bill Curtis with a classic case rumors a murder

At the edge of a forest in the Valley of the Green River a team of detectives works

In February of 2004 34-year-old Christine Hickman flips through the channels and stops on the story of a serial killer

So we we knew we had a serial killer obviously working here. I was watching an episode of cold case files

They were profiling the Green River killer

In that

Episode they make the statement that even though those girls were prostitutes

Nobody deserved to die like that and I shot forward in my chair and thought that's it. They're right. It was like a bolt of lightning

Flushing through Christine's mind is an image of her cousin Julie Hill

For most of her life Christine had believed Julie ran away from home and worked as a prostitute in Nevada

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