It's been 15 years since Katrina McVeigh, a 27-year-old mother of three, went missing from the city's streets, and her mother, Charlotte Saulnier of Mississippi, wants to know why the case remains unsolved all these years later.
The discovery of Vicki Connolly's body off Spring Lake Road in Burrillville Nov. 9 rekindled attention to the unsolved disappearance of McVeigh along with the unsolved deaths of other city women in past years - Meaghan Paul on North Main Street in 1994, and Cindy Roberts, whose remains were recovered from a wooded section of Lincoln after she went missing July 2001.
McVeigh's mother has been following the recent case from her home in Mississippi and on Friday voiced criticism of local police for never solving her daughter's mystery.
From Saulnier's perspective, police failed early on to locate her daughter's body even though the family believes she was killed by someone close to her and buried for a time on the banks of the Blackstone River in the city.
Katrina's alleged murder, her mother believes, came at the end of a longstanding abusive relationship that first cost Katrina her home, custody of her three children and then her life.
The lack of any conclusion to her daughter's case had Saulnier questioning the Woonsocket Police Department's commitment to pursue it.
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The discovery of Vicki Connolly's body off Spring Lake Road in Burrillville Nov. 9 rekindled attention to the unsolved disappearance of McVeigh along with the unsolved deaths of other city women in past years - Meaghan Paul on North Main Street in 1994, and Cindy Roberts, whose remains were recovered from a wooded section of Lincoln after she went missing July 2001.
McVeigh's mother has been following the recent case from her home in Mississippi and on Friday voiced criticism of local police for never solving her daughter's mystery.
From Saulnier's perspective, police failed early on to locate her daughter's body even though the family believes she was killed by someone close to her and buried for a time on the banks of the Blackstone River in the city.
Katrina's alleged murder, her mother believes, came at the end of a longstanding abusive relationship that first cost Katrina her home, custody of her three children and then her life.
The lack of any conclusion to her daughter's case had Saulnier questioning the Woonsocket Police Department's commitment to pursue it.
http://www.woonsocketcall.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19035356&BRD=1712&PAG=461&dept_id=24361&rfi=6