Episode 18: Julie Jones and Helen Sage

In 1997 and 1998, two women went missing from the same stretch of Manchester's red light district. Julie Jones was found six days later, her body hidden at the old Smithfield Market site near Shudehill. Helen Sage has never been found at all. Julie's murder has never been solved. A £50,000 reward remains unclaimed. DNA evidence exists, but no one has been charged. Her mother has spent twenty-seven years asking the same question. Helen Sage is still classified, in the formal language of Greater Manchester Police, as a missing person. This episode asks what happened to two women on the same streets in the same summer — and what it means that, more than two decades later, neither case has been resolved.