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John Ward's attorney, though, didn't believe him and pressed him hard on the witness stand.

And I think the reason for that was because Gerald's testimony at the inquest sort of contradicted his prior statement to investigators that he'd personally helped Julie take down her tents.

And because of this, John Ward's lawyer basically called him a liar.

He was definitely convinced that Gerald and the clerk at the camp knew much more than they were saying.

Several odd things about the evidence found where the Jeep was abandoned and where Julie's remains were discovered were also explored during the inquest.

For example, John Ward's lawyer thought it was odd that Julie had apparently been wearing flip-flops when she died.

Those shoes were recovered near her burned remains, and it was revealed in court that a pair of her gym shoes had been left behind in her abandoned Jeep.

which didn't make sense to Ward's attorney because if she had really left her vehicle in search of help, then why didn't she wear more appropriate footwear to traverse the landscape?

The lawyer also noted that where the Jeep was found, in a gully, was about 15 feet away from a dry, easily traversable patch of ground.

So it didn't make sense to him why Julie had gotten bogged down in the first place.

In his opinion, he felt all the evidence pointed to her Jeep having been purposely planted at the spot to make it appear as if she'd run off the road or gotten stuck.

John raised similar issues during his testimony.

He said that he'd spoken with a Swiss film crew who'd been staying on a hillside a few hundred meters away from where Julie's Jeep was found.

But none of those folks remembered seeing her or her vehicle in the gully between September 6th and September 13th, which only further supported the notion that it had not been there the entire time Julie was missing.

A local pilot later told investigators, though, that the film crew was actually staying further away from where the Jeep was left, and it was entirely possible that they had just not noticed it or been able to see it.

It also came to light during the inquest proceeding that some members of the Maasai tribe had heard a woman's prolonged screams coming from the general area where Julie's remains were eventually found on September 13th, which raised a really big question.

Did Julie die on that day or did she die on the day she was last seen, September 6th?

If it was the former, September 13th, then where in the world had she been in the days between when she was last seen on the 6th and when her burned remains were located?

Andrew Hogg reported for the Sunday Times that it became clear during the inquest someone had likely held Julie captive for several days and killed her shortly before her charred remains were found.

That thought, as you can imagine, was a difficult reality for John Ward to process.