When a hardworking Washington woman is abducted from a remote job site, a massive search is launched.

Investigators explore the possibility that her case may be related to those of several other women who also vanished from the area and were never found in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Thank you. Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive.

I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night. And as always, I'm your host, Scott. Julie Weflin was last seen alive on

September 16th, 1987. She was 28 years old at the time and lived in Deer Park, Washington.

Deer Park is a small town, about a-hour's drive north of Spokane.

It's a peaceful place home to just a few thousand people and surrounded by nature, which

suited Julie just fine because she loved to be outside.

Julie worked as a substation operator for the Bonneville Power Administration, which is a

hydropower

company that supplies electricity to several million customers in the Pacific Northwest.

Being an operator meant that she was responsible for tasks such as reading electrical

meters, keeping electrical transformers running and energizing and de-energizing power

equipment. It was very much a hands-on technical job which

required years of specialized training, and Julie was one of few women doing it in the 1980s.

The vast majority of her co-workers were male. With that being said, Julie enjoyed her work

and didn't mind being a bit of a trailblazer, and she was well-liked among her

colleagues, which makes sense since, by all accounts, she did her job well and was a very capable

and very kind person. There was more to Julie's life than just her career, though. She was well

known for her love of animals, particularly horses, and the outdoors.

She'd grown up in the famously beautiful Pacific Northwest in the shadow of Mount Hood in Portland,

Oregon, to be specific, before moving to Washington State as an adult.

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