197: Happily Never After

Julie Miller met Dennis Bulloch through a newspaper ad and fell hard for him. He seemed like the answer to all of her problems. As a successful executive approaching her 30th birthday, Julie was ready to get married. Dennis seemed like the all-American guy—good-looking and described as soft-hearted and sensitive by former girlfriends. Just four months into their marriage, emergency responders were called out to a fire at the Bulloch’s home. Amid the charred debris, they found a body duct-taped to a rocking chair, the face burned beyond recognition. This is a case that took place before Match.com or Tinder.  Julie was attractive and successful in her career but she was socially immature.  And she was lonely.  She wanted someone to spend her life with and to perhaps start a family of her own. Dennis Bulloch seemed to check all the boxes for her, but he had a dark side she didn’t see.  If there were signs or clues to a darker side of Dennis, Julie may have overlooked them, because, more than anything, she wanted to be married. We’ll talk about this, as well as the histories of Julie and Dennis, in Happily Never After: The Murder of Julie Miller Bulloch.