Recent reports are indicating that Julie Popovich's live in boyfriend was taken in for questioning while the residence that they shares was searched for evidence. No reports have yet to say he is the person of interest, and at least one friend who was with Julie on the night of her vanishing has come forward to give a description of the man that he say a drunk Julie walking away with.
(UPDATE: Police confirmed to NBC 4 that Popovich's boyfriend was questioned and has been cooperative in the case. He is not considered a suspect, police said.)
Source HERE
"....There is new information on the investigation into the disappearance of Julie Popovich, who was last seen two weeks ago at an Ohio State University campus area bar.
Homicide detectives spent the day questioning Julie Popovich's boyfriend, and one of the last people to see the former model speaks out what he knows about the unnamed man police call a person of interest.
Julie Popovich's live-in boyfriend was taken in for questioning Wednesday morning regarding the 20-year-old's disappearance.
Meanwhile, the police crime scene unit spent hours inside the couple's Reynoldsburg apartment looking for evidence.
10TV has learned forensic tests on Julie's Saturn found no traces blood.
Justin Webb says, "It's been rough worrying about her safety. We of course all want her to come home. We're just all being optimistic saying, 'Hey, she'll be back,'""
Webb knows the face of the man last seen with Julie the night she left Ledo's.
"Short black hair, a blue polo shirt, blue jeans and shell necklace. That he was wearing. That I remember distinctly," says Webb.
That's not all he saw.
Webb says, "She was associated with him all night. She was hanging around him. He was talking with her most of the night. There wasn't any struggle going on. She was severely intoxicated when she left. She was hanging on to him because she was falling over at the time. And I watched her walk out the front door."
After that, Julie Popovich disappeared without a trace.
Webb says he wanted to talk to clear the record about some of what's been reported about Popovich's disappearance.
Among the thing he says are not true, is that Popovich got into a car and left the bar.
Popovich's family has hired a private investigator to help in the search.
The owner of Kelly's Professional Investigations in Delaware County says his agency has handed all information over to the Columbus Police. Brad Kelly says Popovich's parents hired him on Tuesday, August 16th; just four days after Popovich disappeared. Since then, three investigators have put in 15-hour days and talked to dozens of possible witnesses.
Kelly says investigators need people to keep calling with tips no matter how small....."
On another note, a reader informed me that the ID sent to Julies friend was not her ID but rather one she was thought to have been using that night accourding to news sources. (Scanning back to myself being underage I can still recall the many nights I used a cousins ID to enter 21 and over places). The ID was said to have been found near hoover reservoir which is around 13 miles from Ledo's. Investigators searched near Hoover Dam on Tuesday, and were expected to return on Wednesday.
********** Okay, I don't like to bounce back and forth on details that either are true or aren't that the media continues to dish out. But according to a news report HERE- the ID card is now thought to have Julies name on it- and not be one of her friends. ".....An identification card with Julie Popovich's name was found near Hoover Reservoir, NBC 4 reported Wednesday night.
Investigators close to the case would not confirm nor deny the report....." So we may or may not be back to square one. First- I wish that someone with a 5th grade education would be allowed to see said card. Then they could read the name on it and tell us. I doubt that will happen. So up to this point this is what we do know:
An ID card was found. It was sent to one of her friends. It was reportedly found near Hoover Reservoir.
What we don't know:
Who the ID belongs to. Either Julie- which leaves questions as to the unknown person who "found" it and how they knew where to send it... and why they didn't hand it over instead to the police- or the friend of Julie- which would tell us why it was sent to the friend if they indeed sent it to the friend whose name was on it- at this point the ID card as important as it is, leaves a black hole the size of Texas in the story.
I don't believe that any of us should be overly surprised by the conflicting stories surrounding the ID. After all this is a case overflowing with conflicting stories. From the first sign that Julie vanished- the police report filed by her live in boyfriend conflicting with the story one friend of hers told, this case has twisted into a "he said, she said" confusing mess. With numerous discrepancies as to how she left, with who she left, if anyone saw her leave and whether anyone saw her with the man who possibly was, or then again wasn't with her inside the bar, and of course there's the car she may have gotten into with the man that she did or didn't seem to know.
At this point- if anyone- anyone at all that actually was there and seen anything or nothing- has any idea on whether anything is or isn't true- just for the sake of my twirling head- please let me know. I would like to at least make one post on this that I don't have to retrack, and then retrack the retracking.
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