Julie returns to Wisteria Lane for the summer to help her mother with her upcoming wedding. During this time, she forms a relationship with Danny Bolen (Beau Mirchoff), who has moved in across the street with his parents. The relationship is turbulent and short - lived. When Julie is found, strangled outside her house and comatose, Danny is the prime suspect. As the other characters work to reveal the identity of Julie 's attacker, her affair with Danny 's father, Nick (Jeffrey Nordling), and a pregnancy scare prior to the attack are exposed. Several months after waking up from her coma, Julie decides to visit relatives on the East Coast until her attacker is caught. In the episode "Epiphany '', Julie 's attacker is revealed to be Eddie Orlofsky (Josh Zuckerman), who mistook her for Susan and was planning to attack her for rejecting him.
who tried to kill julie in desperate housewives
Eddie Orlofsky