Julia Campbell (journalist)
| Julia Campbell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 25, 1967 Virginia, United States |
| Died | April 8, 2007 (aged 40) near the Banaue Rice Terraces, Ifugao Province, Philippines |
| Occupation | Peace Corps volunteer; freelance journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times, People |
| Family | Ed Morris (brother-in-law) |
Julia Campbell (January 25, 1967 – April 8, 2007) was an American journalist. She disappeared on April 8, 2007 while working as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines and discovered on April 18 in a shallow grave where she had been buried after being murdered.
The Philippine House of Representatives awarded her with its "Congressional Medal of Achievement" in June 2007. Later, an eco-park in the Philippines was established as a memorial.
Julia Campbell was the daughter of US Marine Lt. Col. William R. Campbell Jr and Linda Martin Campbell. She graduated with an English degree from James Madison University (Virginia Senate Joint Resolution, No. 149, 1988).
She began her journalism career with The Connection, which is a newspaper in Virginia. From there she worked for the Greenwich Time in Connecticut, The Times Herald-Record in New York, and the St. Petersburg Times in Florida (Virginia Senate Joint Resolution, No. 149, 1988). Prior to her Peace Corps stint, she worked as a journalist based in New York City, having worked for ABCNews.com and CourtTV and had contributed as a freelancer to The New York Times and People magazine, among others. A notable event while working as a freelance reporter with the Times was when she was arrested while covering the funeral of Notorious B.I.G., a rapper. She was charged with disorderly conduct for verbally arguing with a police officer at the funeral. The charges were later dropped. She covered Typhoon Durian, also known as Reming, from the Philippines.
Campbell's career in journalism took a change, when she became a Peace Corp volunteer and went to the Philippines in 2005 until her murder in 2007.
On April 18, her body was found in a shallow grave near the village of Batad in Ifugao Province. A search party of Philippine army soldiers noticed her feet sticking out of a mound of fresh earth in a creek near the remote village.
Juan Duntugan confessed to killing Campbell, claimed that Campbell's death was not premeditated. He stated that he had just finished having a fight with his neighbor when Campbell bumped into him, making him drop what he was carrying. In his anger, he hit Campbell with a rock.
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