http://www.metronews.ca/news/edmonton/2008/02/25/soul-sent-spiralling.html
By: Staff Published on Mon Feb 25 2008
By: Staff Published on Mon Feb 25 2008
[h=2]Murdered victim remembered as a 'beautiful girl'[/h][h=1]Soul sent spiralling[/h]
The latest sex-trade worker to be slain and discarded on the outskirts of Edmonton is being remembered as a beautiful girl who lost her way after falling into drugs.
Brianna Torvalson, 21, was found murdered in a Strathcona County driveway on Thursday, after working as a prostitute for two years to fuel her drug addiction.
Requesting privacy, her family released a statement yesterday:
"Brianna Torvalson's family would like the public to know that she was NOT a discarded, forgotten street person but rather a loving, caring, beautiful, irreplaceable soul."
Torvalson spent a lot of time around the Fort Road area near the Transit Hotel where many around there knew the 21-year-old, including bar patron Cory Vanderbilt.
"I knew her since about two years ago when she was a beautiful young girl. Then she met the wrong people and fell into bad habits and when I saw her last week she looked about 90 years old," Vanderbilt told Metro outside of the Transit Hotel.