Murder of Julie Pacey

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The murder of Julie Pacey (1955/1956 – 26 September 1994) is an unsolved murder of a mother in her own home in Grantham, England on Monday 26 September 1994. 38-year-old Pacey was found strangled to death with a cord in her first-floor bathroom by her 14-year-old daughter on her return home from school. The prime suspect, 'Overalls Man', was seen by numerous witnesses in the vicinity of Pacey's home in the days around the murder, and had appeared at Pacey's home when she was alone three days previously. Although she had been sexually assaulted, investigators do not know why she was apparently targeted in what appeared to be a planned attack. The case has twice featured on Crimewatch. The actor who played the role of the killer in the Crimewatch reconstruction was investigated as a suspect in September 2015 after the 1994 appeal was re-shown, as some viewers who had watched the appeal mistakenly called in to report him as the killer. Publicity on the case returned in 2015 after a full...

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