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FATE UNCLEAR—The photo of Julie Christie, a topless dancer who disappeared in Fairbanks in 1985 and is presumed murdered by Alaska State Troopers, is taped to a file drawer in Trooper Investigator Dan Hickman’soffice. , i#'#* ^ Mi/rc Mathers News MinerFamily clings to hope that daughter is aliveWhen the remains of Julie Christie were discovered after her disappearance in 1985. her death was added to the list of unsolved murders in the Fairbanks area. This is the final part of a series examiningthose deaths. ' if;1 r- ^ t-::By KRIS CAPPSStaff WriterJulie Christie disappeared in November 1985 on her way to DeltaJunction.Investigators say she died there and some of her bones were later dragged in by a couple of Irish set ters on Dec. 23, 1985. Her mother, who lives in Michigan, vehemently disagrees and claims her daughter may still be alive somewhere, unable to call for help.It seems there is very little that investigators and Christie’s mother agree on.Investigators say Julie Christie was a topless dancer, involved with illegal drugs. Her mother says Christie cleaned condominiums for a living and once worked in a fish processing plant. Christie never said anything to her mother aboutdancing.“I would know, Miller insisted.Miller, her husband, and two sons planned to come to Alaska in late 1985. They changed their minds af ter investigators discouraged the idea. Now she is suspicious of why investigators didn’t want the fami-l.tist in lt;i iprics;ly here and she suspects they ’re not really trying to solve the case.“It didn’t make sense to me,’’ said Miller, in a telephone inter view from her home in Marion, Mich. “I don’t believe my daughter is dead. I think she's missing.”But Miller also suspects illegal drugs may be involved somehow in her daughter’s disappearance, (See UNSOL VED Page A 6)
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Fairbanks Daily News Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Sun, Jan 15, 1989
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