On today’s episode of The Lost Girls, we’re talking about Julie May Hill, a young woman whose disappearance in the summer of 1980 left behind a scene so unsettling it still raises questions more than four decades later.

Julie was just twenty-one years old when she vanished from her apartment in Duluth, Minnesota. She didn’t pack a bag. She didn’t leave a note. Her purse and belongings were still inside. Food was left cooking on the stove. The door to her apartment stood open, and her two Doberman pinschers were left behind, as if Julie had stepped out expecting to return within minutes—but never did.

Years laterhere after her disappearance, investigators would uncover a far darker story involving a troubled relationship marked by domestic violence, a confession to her killing, and a conviction that still failed to bring the one thing her family has waited for all these years: Julie’s remains.

Julie May Hill has never been found.

Her mother died without answers. Her family continues to search. And the question that lingers is not just what happened to Julie—but how someone can confess to causing a death, serve time, and still leave a woman missing, unnamed, and unrecovered.