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John didn't feel confident that police in Kenya were really going to work Julie's case though, so he continued to carry out his own investigation.

He traveled back and forth from England and kept trying to track down all the people who'd been staying at Sand River Camp on the day she disappeared.

Those efforts sent him and those who were helping him to Spain, Canada, Australia, Sweden, and even the United States trying to track down witnesses and conduct interviews.

He posted a 10,000 pound reward for information that might lead to an arrest.

That amount then would have had the buying power today of over 33,000 US dollars.

So it was a lot of money in 1989.

After the inquest, it appears things in the case, at least in Kenya, went quiet for a while.

But back in Great Britain, John kept being vocal about getting justice for his daughter.

He called on people involved in England's political scene who had power and influence.

Around this time, the U.S.

issued an advisory classifying Kenya as an unsafe destination, and reports of other international tourists being attacked and killed while visiting the country also began to surface.

For example, in the summer of 1989, just a few weeks before the inquest into Julie's murder ended, a foreign conservationist and two Kenyan workers in a park were shot and killed by criminals from Somalia.

Another group was also reported to have been attacked and murdered around that same time.

But it was speculated that Kenyan officials didn't necessarily want word of those incidents to circulate in the press because the tourism industry was such an economic driver for the country.

By January and February of 1990, John's personal efforts to keep the spotlight on his daughter's case paid off.

Scotland Yard launched an official investigation into the murder and actually sent three inspectors to Kenya to poke around and gather police files.

Within weeks of that happening, two gay wardens in their 20s who worked in the reserve during the time frame Julie was killed were arrested on suspicion of being connected to the crime.

An article by Michael Horsnell stated that forensic tests were being done by British investigators at that time as part of the investigation into the men, but the article didn't specify what specific items of evidence were being tested.

Later reporting by Sam Kiley mentioned that several Caucasian hares had been found in huts that the defendants and another ranger lived in at the reserve.

An article by Richard Caseby said what had gotten the whole ball rolling and resulted in the game wardens being arrested in the first place was that someone had sent John Ward an anonymous letter in England claiming to know where some of Julie's personal belongings ended up in Kenya after her murder.