CANADA Canada - Carolyn Pruyser, 18, Peace River, AB, 17 May 1984

[otto]

So many young women disappeared in Western Canada during the late 1970s and early 1980s. We know about the highway of tears, but that isn't the only place where women disappeared and were murdered. The highway of tears victims were both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, and many were abducted while hitchhiking. Many young missing and murdered women who are not related to the highway of tears were also hitchhiking.

Carolyn Pruyser vanished in May 1984 in Peace Rivier. McAstocker was responsible for missing girls and women near Calgary and Edmonton. That's 500 miles (Calgary) and 300 miles (Edmonton) from Peace River. It's not an easy connection to make unless he was in fact in Peace River on that day.

He was released from prison after an 11 year sentence starting around 1982-3. In 1994 he was re-arrested for another murder, just after he was released. Was Gary McAstocker in prison in May 1984? I don't see Gary McAstocker as a likely suspect in the disappearance of Carolyn Pruyser.

"A person of interest in MacLean’s murder was sex offender Gary McAstocker, 34. McAstocker hanged himself in 1994 in his Edmonton home hours before he was to be questioned by police in the suspected murder of a 14-year-old Edmonton girl, Tina McPhee, who disappeared a month earlier while walking to school.

He had just been released from prison after serving his full 11-year sentence for a 1982 rape and a subsequent 1988 sexual assault committed while on parole.

Murder meeting drew investigators

In 1981, a Kamloops RCMP investigator named Mike Eastham organized a conference to compare notes on the growing number of unsolved female homicides along…

vancouversun.com

 

[otto]

When someone has gone missing in such a remote location so long ago, we have no choice but to wait for bones to be found. I very much doubt that her body is in another country. At most, her bones will be within maybe 20, maybe 200, miles from where she disappeared. That's my best guess. It depends entirely on whether her abductor was local, or, as was common at the time, someone who was passing through.

Her last stop was at the gas station, so someone who was at the gas station at the same time is the most likely suspect.

 

[Captianobvius]

The Mounties always get their man, it might not be the right man, but it’s their man.

Well maybe in this case, they will get the right man……. Their man.

 

[dotr]

Carolyn Elaine Pruyser

oag.ca.gov

MISSING SINCE:	05/17/1984	SEX:	Female
DOB:	08/30/1965	RACE:	White
HEIGHT:	5' 3"	EYES:	Blue
WEIGHT:	131 lbs.	HAIR:	Blonde
CLOTHING:	Blue jeans, blue esprit jacket, grey shoes, yellow short sleeved v-neck blouse with red and yellow on the neck.
DENTAL X-RAYS AVAILABLE:	Yes
Carolyn was last seen May 17, 1984 in Alberta, Canada.

Contact

AGENCY:	Royal Canadian Mounted Police Department
PHONE NUMBER:	(780) 624-6677
CASE NUMBER:	84-2335