Julie was also a heroin addict.
Just last month, she had called James from jail - after being arrested on yet another prostitution charge - begging him to bail her out. She had been in lock-up for almost two days, and the withdrawal symptoms were getting pretty bad.
James refused and, in jail, - the LAST place one wants to "kick" - Julie got off heroin. She had been held for six days; just enough time for the junk to work it's way out of her system to where she'd feel halfway normal again.
She apparently stayed "clean" for at least a few weeks thereafter, and reportedly even attended one Narcotics Anonymous meeting, but, alas, the long arm of addiction can just as easily snatch you back as not.
Evidently, Morris' promise of "money and drugs" was too tempting an offer and she took him up on it. While her drug of choice was heroin, an addict is an addict, and one doesn't look a "gift horse in the mouth." Even if the "horse" is, in fact, crack cocaine.
One can only wonder what she must have been thinking the night she and Morris were having sex. When he slipped a strap, or grasped his hands, around her neck and choked the life out of her.
Just a few days earlier, James had warned her to be careful, reminding her about the string of killings in the neighborhood, and how she fit the victim profile.
"Don't worry," she had replied, "I can take care of myself." She then added, "Don't forget to pray for me the next time you're in church, James!"
As she struggled for breath in Morris' RV a few nights later, his body weighing heavily upon hers, I wonder if she thought, "This can't be happening to ME!"
Or perhaps, "Oh please, God, if you let me live, I'll try to lead a better life."
While we may one day learn what the killer was thinking while his victims suffocated, perhaps in a TV-movie or tabloid news article, Julie's final thoughts are now lost forever - in much the same way she went through life... as another "lost soul".
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2 - Shirly Jones
I'm a student of criminal justice. I was told about a very strange serial killer by one of my classmates.
He was referred to as the mini-skirt killer. My understanding is that the murders occured in the 1970's. The killer would lure young college girls into his car. He would then put a plastic bag over their heads and suffocate them to death.
After smothering the life out of them he would remove and keep his victims pantyhose.
He would not rape his victims, they were found fully clothed with the exception of their missing pantyhose. He would only kill college age girls wearing micro mini-skirts and pantyhose. Has anyone else heard of this bizarre criminal?
3 - kelly
What a brutally honest view.Often I have wondered what could a woman in that position be thinking when making the decision that would lead her to her place of death...Is it possible that addiction could be so strong that even if she had sensed danger that she would have ignored the signs?Wish there was some way to volunteer to help such people as the street people,prostitutes and addicts???Thanks for such a touching article...kelly
4 - j
I was living in the area where these killings were taking place and to hear of it in the media and general society mortified me. The more i heard, the more I was afraid for everyone fitting the "profile" that was being sought after., there were times when it was said that he was keeping the corpses for up to a month and repeatedly sexually assaulting the bodies until they were so badly decomposed that he Had to dispose of them..,only to seek out and find another victim within a week. How can anyone be so cruel and heartless??., am only relieved that he can not hurt anyone else., and i pray that noone will repeat his actions. Society cannot, should not have to suffer in this way again.
5 - scott culp
julie was my step-sister even though we didnt get to see each other in her later days i miss her much i wish i would have known she was in such dire straits but mom didnt let me know either. its to late to do anything now but to pray. I still have my memories of her laugh and her way of thought she is very speical in my heart