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Sunday, January 15, 1989UNSOLVED MURDERS(Continued from Page A-l)since at least one of her daughter’s friends was a drug dealer, she said.In 1982, Christie was doing office work at a nuclear power plant in Midland, Mich., when a friend encouraged her to come to Alaska where work was plentiful.The offer was tempting, particularly since Christie had just separated from her husband of five or six years, Miller said. Christie headed north.But during a visit with her family in August or September 1985, she decided to move back to Michigan, according to her mother.“She was going back to Alaska to put her affairs in order, then come back. She talked to her ex-husband and he thought they might get back together,” said Miller, 62. “When my daughter was here, she was happy, bright and she had no badhabits.“I don’t know what happened or what she got into, but she wanted to come home,” she said.Christie was the fifth of nine children. Miller described her as someone who loved people. She liked to read and she liked to take walks. She rode bicycles and liked to dance.“She loved sunshine,” Miller said. “That’s why I've never understood why she went there (to Alaska).”“I talked to her the latter part of October and everything was fine,” said Miller. “All at once, she was nowhere to be found.”The first time the dogs dragged a bone home to their master in Delta Junction in December 1985, the man couldn’t figure out what kind of animal the bone had come from. The second time the dogs returned with a bone, it was obviously human—part of a skull.Alaska State Troopers searched for the spot where dogs had foundthe bones and discovered additional bones and clothing strewn around a small area about a half-mile away from the man’s residence. Christie’s boyfriend identified the clothing as the same type she had been wearing when last seen.Christie was last seen at The Hideaway Bar on Second Avenue, at about 9 p.m. on Nov. 5 or Nov. 6, 1985. She was planning to go to Delta Junction and an investigator said friends picked her up at the bar to drive her there.“No one can verify she made it there except us,” said Trooper Investigator Dan Hickman. That conclusion is based on discovery of her clothes and some bones.He said there are suspects in the case, but not enough evidence to arrest anyone.“People she hung around with were into cocaine, into the drug business,” Hickman said. “She also was said to owe some money. That could be a motive. Or, it could be other things.”Hickman said he is reinterviewing people about the case, hoping to draw out new information. He still receives occasional anonymous tips about the case and got one as recent as one month ago.Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, her family clings to the hope that investigators are wrong about (Christie’s fate.“I keep expecting her to call or else walk in the door,” said Miller. “It’s something you don’t accept.”Miller tearfully said she thinks about her daughter all the time.“We don’t handle it,” Miller said. “We just hang on with our shoestrings.”Christie was 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed 120 pounds.Anyone with information about Julie Christie is asked to call Investigator Dan Hickman at 452-2114.
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