CANADA CANADA - 83 Missing & Murdered women of Edmonton, Alberta

[dotr]

http://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/

"CBC News has investigated the unsolved cases of missing and murdered indigenous women across Canada over the last six decades. Here are the stories of about 230 women, including comments from more than 100 family members. We need your help to expand this database and add more information, and we will update it regularly".

 

[Sillybilly]

This thread is like a runaway train. Do we have a list of the 83 missing and murdered women? Where does that number come from?

TIA!

The number initially came from RCMP Project KARE itself. When the KARE taskforce was first formed in 2003, it was responsible for the case files of 83 missing and/or murdered women primarily in the Edmonton area of Alberta. Of those 83 files in and around Edmonton, 8 of them were determined to be the work of 1 serial killer, thus the moniker "Edmonton Serial Killer" was coined, and a partial profile released. We know the names of the 8 victims being attributed to the ESK, but I don't believe we've ever seen a list of the other 75 names that comprised the total of 83. (Presumably that figure has fluctuated over the years).

Project KARE's mandate has since been expanded to include files of missing and/or murdered vulnerable persons throughout the entire province of Alberta:

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ab/community-communaute/kare/index-eng.htm

Approx 10 years ago I compiled a database of the missing/murdered women in Western Canada (BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan), which of course included the 8 women attributed to the Edmonton serial killer, and a multitude of other victims. Because the database included missing/murdered by total province, I wasn't able to determine which cases comprised the other 75 cases in "the Edmonton area" that were under KARE's jurisdiction.

Clear as mud?

 

[Woodland]

Does anyone know who the 8 murdered women are attributed to one killer? Is there a list here with their names, date of disappearance, location etc? Tia.

 

[Sillybilly]

Does anyone know who the 8 murdered women are attributed to one killer? Is there a list here with their names, date of disappearance, location etc? Tia.

This is from my Excel database Woodland, and is going to look like a dog's breakfast, but you'll get the idea:

NAME / DATE LAST SEEN / Month / PROV LAST SEEN / PLACE LAST SEEN / DATE BODY FOUND / LOC BODY FOUND

Bernadette Ahenakew 19890927 Sept AB 19891024 found in a ditch alongside North Clover Bar Road north of Hwy 16

Edna Bernard 20020922 Sep AB 20020923 3 km east of Leduc on Range Road 245, 1 km north of Rollyview Rd; body was on fire when discovered

Debbie Darlene Lake 20021104 Nov AB 20030412 Miquelon Lake; skull found, no body, so cause of death not determined, Miquelon Lake, 70 km southeast of Edmonton

Monique Pitre 20021124 Nov AB 20030108 NE of Edmonton, south of Twp Rd 540 and Range Rd 222

Melissa Munch 20030110 Jan AB 20030112 Ardrossan area, south of Hwy 16, west of Range Rd 220, Strathcona County; body found frozen, and cause of death not released, found in stand of trees

Katie Sylvia Ballantyne 20030427 Apr AB 20030707 Rollyview, east of Leduc, 20 km south of Edmonton, Twp Rd 500 and Range Rd 235; 49548 Range Road (property owned by Ansorgers)

Rachel Liz Quinney 20040604 Jun AB 20040611 Twp Rd 540 and Range Rd 224; small grove of trees north of Sherwood Park (property owned by John Brown)

Charlene Gauld 20050408 Apr AB 20050416 Twp Rd 490 and RR 220

My database looks and works good, and if I had more time, I might be able to present it better

 

[Sillybilly]

Chewing my cabbage twice here ... it was all posted earlier in this thread with a separate post containing info on the above 8 women:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ed-women-of-Edmonton-ON&p=8368516#post8368516

Forgot I had done all that ... and I got to hide my own Easter eggs this year

 

[dotr]

Does anyone know who the 8 murdered women are attributed to one killer? Is there a list here with their names, date of disappearance, location etc? Tia.

http://www.firstnationsdrum.com/2006/09/search-begins-for-edmonton-serial-killer/
rbbm.

"Search begins for Edmonton serial killer
September 3, 2006"

"They say at least eight of the murders have enough in common the lead them to suspect they were committed by the same person.


"Oct. 20, 2005
Edmonton police announce they suspect Delores Brower, who had been reported missing five months earlier, may have been a victim of foul play.

May 6, 2005
The body of sex trade worker Ellie May Meyer, 33, is found near Sherwood Park, just east of Edmonton.

April 18, 2005
RCMP in Alberta identify the body of Charlene Gauld, 20, who burned remains were found near Camrose, 70 km. southeast of Edmonton.

Jan. 25, 2005
The body of 19-year-old Samantha Tayleen Berg is discovered under snow in a parking lot on Edmonton’s North Side. The teenager worked in the sex trade.

June 11, 2004
The body of 19-year-old Rachel Quinney is found in a wooded area near Sherwood Park.

July 7, 2003
The body of 40-year-old Katie Sylvia Ballentyne, who worked in the sex trade, is found in Leduc County, about 20 km south of Edmonton. She is the fourth female found in a field outside Edmonton in 2003, the fifth in 10 months.

April 12, 2003
The skull and remains of 29-year-old Debbie Lake, a former prostitute, are found near Miquelon Lake Provincial Park, approximately 70 km southeast of Edmonton.

Jan. 12, 2003
20-year-old Melissa Munch is found dead in a stand of trees on a farmer’s field in Strathcona County, bordering east Edmonton. The discovery is made four days after the body of Monique Pitre was found less than 10 kilometres away.

Jan. 8, 2003
The frozen body of Monique Pitre, 30, is found in a field south of Fort Saskatchewan, a few minutes northeast of Edmonton.. There is trauma to her entire body.

Sept. 23, 2002
The burned body of 28-year-old Edna Bernard is found in a field east of Leduc, half an hour south of Edmonton.

Jan. 27, 2001
24-year-old Kelly Dawn Reilly is found dead behind a gravel operation near Villeneuve., half an hour north of Edmonton.

Sept. 1, 1997
22-year-old Cara King is found in a canola field in Sherwood Park.

June 14, 1997
The body of 24-year-old Jessica Cardinal is found in an alley behind a commercial building at 9325-111th Avenue. Her body is discovered behind a discarded shelving unit. Edmonton police have no suspect in her death.

Oct. 19, 1997
The body of Joyce Hewitt is found in Sherwood Park. She had a “high-risk lifestyle.” The circumstances of her death were not available.

Dec. 25, 1996
24-year-old Joanne Ghostkeeper is found strangled in her Edmonton apartment. Police have no suspect in her death.

Feb. 11, 1993
The partially decomposed body of 25-year-old Elaine Ross is found stuffed under a bed in a motel room in west Edmonton. Autopsy results were inconclusive and a cause of death is unknown, but police are treating it as a homicide.

Dec. 21, 1990
Lorraine Wray, a 46-year-old masseuse and mother of one, is found strangled in the bathroom of her west Edmonton business. According to Edmonton police spokesperson Dean Parthenis, several autopsies were performed, leading investigators to determine “manual strangulation” as the cause of death.

Oct. 25, 1990
29-year-old Mavis Mason is found stabbed to death on a rural road west of Edmonton.

Oct. 25, 1989
Bernadette Ahenakew, a 22-year-old mother of three, is found dead in a ditch alongside a rural road near Sherwood Park.

Sept. 13, 1988
The body of 20-year-old Georgette Flint is found in Elk Island National Park, just west of Edmonton. An exact cause of death is not determined.

Sept. 21, 1986
The body of 21-year-old Melodie Joy Riegel is found on a hotel-room bed. She was last seen entering the hotel with a client.

1983
The skeletal remains of 21-year-old Gail Cardinal are found 10 kilometres south of Fort Saskatchewan. RCMP spokesperson Roxanne Beaubien says Cardinal had a “high-risk lifestyle.” No cause was determined in her death."

 

[otto]

It's always difficult to solve a murder if witnesses choose to withhold critical facts. For some strange reason, this eye witness to murder spoke to a reporter 16 years too late, but still has not reported the information to the police.

"A Cree grandmother who says she's kept a deadly secret for more than 15 years wants to break her silence. She knows what happened to a woman who went missing in 1999. She claims the woman was murdered and ​she says​ she knows who killed her ... Neither woman has gone to the RCMP but both said they want the police to investigate and would be willing to talk to them."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...secret-about-missing-manitoba-woman-1.3034911

 

[otto]

"Project Kare, a joint task force between the RCMP and Edmonton police formed in 2003, is investigating the cases of more than 20 Edmonton women who have been killed or are missing since 1983.

All were either prostitutes, or involved with drugs and living what police call "high-risk lifestyles."

http://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/svekla-thomas/

"Project KARE is investigating 83 cases of missing or dead Albertans who led high-risk lifestyles, including the 12 prostitutes found in the Edmonton area since 1988."

http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=27142893-c2a9-410f-a58e-21b356c1de3f&sponsor=

"The [Kare] unit, a model of which police organizations across the country have based their own vulnerable missing persons units on, investigates and reviews files of murdered or missing vulnerable persons throughout Alberta."

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ab/community-communaute/kare/index-eng.htm

 

[otto]

The number initially came from RCMP Project KARE itself. When the KARE taskforce was first formed in 2003, it was responsible for the case files of 83 missing and/or murdered women primarily in the Edmonton area of Alberta. Of those 83 files in and around Edmonton, 8 of them were determined to be the work of 1 serial killer, thus the moniker "Edmonton Serial Killer" was coined, and a partial profile released. We know the names of the 8 victims being attributed to the ESK, but I don't believe we've ever seen a list of the other 75 names that comprised the total of 83. (Presumably that figure has fluctuated over the years).

Project KARE's mandate has since been expanded to include files of missing and/or murdered vulnerable persons throughout the entire province of Alberta:

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ab/community-communaute/kare/index-eng.htm

Approx 10 years ago I compiled a database of the missing/murdered women in Western Canada (BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan), which of course included the 8 women attributed to the Edmonton serial killer, and a multitude of other victims. Because the database included missing/murdered by total province, I wasn't able to determine which cases comprised the other 75 cases in "the Edmonton area" that were under KARE's jurisdiction.

Clear as mud?

It's not clear. The link provided does not state that 83 women are missing or murdered in Edmonton.

News reports state that there are 83 missing Albertans over the last 32 years, 20 of whom are women from the Edmonton area. I get the impression that the Sun newspaper (typically unreliable) has changed the facts from 83 missing Albertans to 83 missing women in Edmonton.

 

[news.talk]

RCMP investigate discovery of human remains near Leduc


EDMONTON –*RCMP are investigating after human remains were found in a wooded area south of Edmonton.

Police say the remains were found by a person who was walking in a wooded area next to agricultural land southeast of Leduc on Sunday. RCMP could not confirm the exact location, but said the remains were found in the same general area where Amber Tuccaro’s remains were discovered nearly three years ago.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1960154/rcmp-investigate-discovery-of-human-remains-near-leduc/

 

[Chickadea]

I always thought the murders would stop(or at least slow down) once this man was put away. The police also investigated him for Rachel Quinney murder.

From the below link:

After his arrest, RCMP investigators told Svekla he was suspected of killing as many as 12 prostitutes, their deaths linked together by police profilers. But he was only ever charged with the murder of one other woman, Edmonton prostitute Rachel Quinney. On June 3, Justice Sterling Sanderman acquitted Svekla in the Quinney case, while convicting him for the murder of Innes.


http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=e4e51ac2-82c2-48c3-b833-84dde0e23c1a

 

[Sillybilly]

I always thought the murders would stop(or at least slow down) once this man was put away. The police also investigated him for Rachel Quinney murder.

From the below link:

After his arrest, RCMP investigators told Svekla he was suspected of killing as many as 12 prostitutes, their deaths linked together by police profilers. But he was only ever charged with the murder of one other woman, Edmonton prostitute Rachel Quinney. On June 3, Justice Sterling Sanderman acquitted Svekla in the Quinney case, while convicting him for the murder of Innes.


http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=e4e51ac2-82c2-48c3-b833-84dde0e23c1a

WRT whether or not Svekla could be the Edmonton SK ... Theresa Innes whose murder he was convicted of was not one of the 8 victims connected by KARE. Rachel Quinney whose body he supposedly stumbled upon, and whose murder he was acquitted of was one of those 8 KARE victims.

Without knowing the specifics of the trial wrt Rachel's murder, hard for us to know what evidence may have pointed to (or away) from Svekla as the perp in that case.

 

[luckyseven]

Remains of aboriginal woman missing for 10 years discovered in Alberta woods
APRIL 28, 2015 09:33 AM

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Mounties say human remains found south of Edmonton have been identified as a missing Metis woman.

Delores Dawn Brower, who went by the nickname Spider, was a sex trade worker last seen hitching a ride in Edmonton in 2004.

A medical examiner was unable to determine a cause of death.

RCMP say Brower was found in the same area where other human remains were located in 2003 and 2012.

 

[Sillybilly]

Sex-trade worker Delores Brower's remains identified ...

Brower last seen hitchhiking on Edmonton street corner in May 2004

full article at:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...delores-brower-s-remains-identified-1.3052089

 

[Sillybilly]

Although Delores is not one of the 8 cases connected by KARE to the ESK, her remains were found in the general vicinity of where two other of those 8 victims were located.

The article luckyseven linked to ^^ does not mention that Edna Bernard (one of the 8 cases connected by KARE to the ESK) was also found Sept 23 2002, 3 km east of Leduc on Range Rd 245, 1 km north of Rollyview Rd. Edna had disappeared the day before and her body was on fire when discovered.

The 2012 case was Amber Tuccaro, and I believe the remains that the article states were found in 2003 were those of Katie Sylvia Ballantyne (another of the 8 cases connected by KARE to the ESK). Katie disappeared April 27 2003, and her remains were found July 7 2003, Rollyview east of Leduc near Twp Rd 500 and Range Rd 235 (49548 Range Road, property owned by Ansorgers)

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...f26baa6b4e&sponsor=+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

 

[dotr]

Glad that Delores has finally been located and given back her name, but it must be a mixed blessing for her family.

 

[Woodland]

WRT whether or not Svekla could be the Edmonton SK ... Theresa Innes whose murder he was convicted of was not one of the 8 victims connected by KARE. Rachel Quinney whose body he supposedly stumbled upon, and whose murder he was acquitted of was one of those 8 KARE victims.

Without knowing the specifics of the trial wrt Rachel's murder, hard for us to know what evidence may have pointed to (or away) from Svekla as the perp in that case.

I hate to say it, but Rachel could have died from a drug overdose according to her autopsy. An indignity to her body is another matter imo, with charges warranted.

 

[Woodland]

This Svekla guy is certainly a piece of work. One thing the public should be made aware of imo, is why LE thinks Svekla may have had an accomplice - mentioned in more than one article on the murder he is convicted of and those he is suspected of, quoting LE.

Svekla does not appear to match the the profile for another Edmonton killer LE is looking for from what I have read on his history - outdoors kinda guy, likes camping, fishing, maybe hunting or other such activities (snowmobiling/RV enthusiast). Can't see that Svekla would be pals with such a person given his history - seems like no one cared to teach him to enjoy nature. So Svekla does not seem to not be under consideration for some other missing/murdered women - as in night and day circumstances.

Fwiw, wish the media would leave out the 'high risk' lifestyle thingy - annoying imo as it takes away from the seriousness of the offenses against them. I get the risk, as others must, maybe it's the MSM wording that is wrong - to casual imo. Equal emphasis on the crimes against them would provide a good balance. Jmo.

 

[news.talk]

Brower was 33 when she vanished from the corner of 118th Avenue and 70th Street in early May 2004. She was leading what police euphemistically call a “high-risk lifestyle.” The Métis woman was a sex-trade worker and drug addict, whose friends called her Spider. But she was also a canny street survivor, who was cautious enough to register with the Project KARE task force, providing the RCMP and the Edmonton Police Service with her medical records, her dental records and her DNA — just in case they ever needed to identify her body.

Her fatalism, sadly, proved invaluable this month when a landowner out walking in the woods east of Leduc, near Rollyview, came across skeletal remains. Relying on those dental records, police have identified them as Brower’s. The medical examiner has not yet determined a cause of death. But Brower was found in the same general area as the remains of three other aboriginal women who had “high risk” lives.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/e...n+bleak+fate+should+haunt/11014679/story.html

 

[Sillybilly]

I hate to say it, but Rachel could have died from a drug overdose according to her autopsy. An indignity to her body is another matter imo, with charges warranted.

Yes, Rachel had a potentially lethal level of cocaine in her system, but she was also found naked and in addition to the mutilation, had "marks consistent with bruising on her legs, right forearm, neck and lower back". IMO, the medical examiner would not have classified her death as a homicide if it could have been attributed just to an overdose (i.e. misadventure, accident or suicide) unless it could be determined that the potentially lethal level of cocaine was the actual COD and administered by someone else, therefore homicide.

http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/2007/10/22/pf-4597445.html

Rachel is one of the 8 victims connected by KARE and attributed to a common serial killer, and she was friends with 2 other of those connected cases (Charlene Gauld and Monique Pitre). She was also a friend of another murdered woman, Samantha Tayleen Berg.