A convicted murderer is being investigated by police over the unsolved murder of a 23-year-old woman left naked and strangled in a carrot field.
Julie Finley vanished from Liverpool on August 5, 1994, and her naked body was found strangled in a carrot field off the St Helens bound carriageway of the Rainford by-pass a day later.
She was last seen alive just days after her 23rd birthday at the back of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital whilst talking to a man who was described as white and believed to be aged in his 20s or 30s.
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Yesterday Crimestoppers announced it is supporting Merseyside Police in its investigation by offering a reward of up to £10,000 for information they exclusively receive that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or people linked to Julie Finley’s murder.
Julie’s mother, Pat, who is supporting the appeal for anonymous information, said: “Julie’s Dad has now passed away and he went to his grave having never seen justice delivered.
"Julie would have been 50 on August 1, and who knows how her life would have turned out had she not been taken from us.
“I know it has been 27 years since she was murdered, but I want to see justice while I’m still alive and see somebody pay for what they did to Julie.”
Christopher Halliwell, became a suspect in Julie’s murder last year after the Mirror traced a new witness who said the killer was living four miles from the spot where her body was found.
Merseyside police are understood to be following up a number of lines of inquiry in relation to Halliwell and have spoken to other witnesses, MirrorOnline reports.
They are believed to have said that in the summer of 1994 Halliwell was working in North Wales fitting windows while living in Aughton Park, Ormskirk, and returning to his home in Swindon, Wilts, at weekends.
Halliwell, a former cab driver who was portrayed in ITV drama A Confession, drove a white D-reg Ford Transit van, like one spotted near Rainford, according to the witness.
A woman calling herself Tina told police Julie said she was going to see a taxi driver.
Someone fitting Julie’s description was seen at 12.30am on August 6, yards from where her body was found, arguing with a man who was forcing her into a white transit van.
Halliwell, 57, is serving a whole life term for the murders of Becky Godden-Edwards, 20, and Sian O’Callaghan, 22.
Both women were abducted in Swindon and their bodies dumped in rural locations.
Det Sgt Steve Fulcher, who was forced out his job after snaring the killer in 2011, believes he committed other murders. Talking in 2016, he said Halliwell told him “police want to interview me about eight murders”.
