Julie is a good student. She gets good grades, she's good to her friends, she's good to her mother, she's just good generally - which is unusual in Fairview.
She's typically the sensible one who her mother Susan can rely on when everything starts falling apart, or indeed, burning down.
So when Julie engages in a dalliance with bad-boy Austin McCann, Susan's naturally very shocked.
Although that relationship has nothing on Julie's next boyfriend - her 40-year-old college professor - nor indeed her brief fling with new neighbour Danny Bolen and, as it turns out, her secret affair with his father Nick...
All of which raises many an eyebrow when Julie is strangled outside her house and left in a coma...
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