Julianne Miller was 27 and a graduate student at the University of Hartford when she vanished from her cottage in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, in late summer 1982. She was last seen on the evening of September 21, 1982, in the living room with her live-in boyfriend, James Clayton; a tenant reported a noticeable argument that night. Her parents reported her missing on September 29 after failing to contact her. Julianne’s car, purse, glasses and her Golden Retriever Bo-Jo were left at the cottage.

Investigators quickly focused on Clayton. He told police he last saw Julianne on the morning of September 22 getting into a brown pickup driven by a Black man; Clayton himself was Black and owned a similar vehicle. Witnesses later said furniture had been rearranged in the cottage and some couch cushions were missing, which Clayton said had been sent for dry cleaning. Several months after the disappearance, some of Julianne’s jewelry, including her grandmother’s ring, turned up at a New Haven pawn shop and was reportedly sold by Clayton’s brother. Clayton was never charged.

The case was reviewed by the Chief State’s Attorney’s Cold Case Squad in 2000 and the state has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Does anyone have information about Julianne’s last days, the 70-acre property, or the people around her in September 1982?