Found Deceased Canada - Euarchol Wanichpan, 25, Vancuover Island, 30 July 2017

[Gardener1850]

Body found buried and wrapped in tarp is missing Vancouver Island woman

VICTORIA — Euarchol Wanichpan, a 25-year-old Vancouver Island woman who has been missing since late July, has been identified as the person found buried and wrapped in a tarp at S.J. Willis Educational Centre.

Major crime investigators suspect foul play and are asking for the public’s help in trying to piece together Wanichpan’s movements between the time she was last seen and when her body was discovered.

Wanichpan was last seen in the Lansdowne area of Saanich on July 30. She was reported missing to Saanich police the next day.

Her disappearance was considered suspicious and on Aug. 9, the file was turned over to the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit, which probes homicides and suspicious deaths.

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/body-found-buried-and-wrapped-in-tarp-is-missing-vancouver-island-woman/ar-AAqIpxK?li=AAggFp5

Police suspect foul play in connection with Wanichpan’s death, and investigators needs the public’s help in determining Euarchol’s movements between the time she was last seen and when her body was discovered.

“While investigators currently do not believe the general public is at risk, they continue to gather evidence and pursue a number of investigative leads,” VIIMCU said in a release.
“Wanichpan is a daughter and a sister,” police noted, “and [officers] will continue to work with her family, who have requested privacy at this time.”

http://victoriabuzz.com/2017/08/body-found-sj-willis-identified-missing-saanich-woman/

 

[jjs]

This poor girl was found at my daughter's school. She was found in a place out back where a lot of the kids hang out to "smoke". My daughter said she's been back there between when she was missing and when she was found and they didn't notice a thing.

It's a very strange place to bury someone; it's right next to a VERY busy street (Blanchard, which turns into Pat Bay Hwy). It's hard to imagine nobody seeing anything. However, there is a LOT of homeless/ drug activity in the area-- the big field (in FRONT of the school) is filled with people camping at night. There is a lot of panhandling up and down Blanchard-- people walk right down the middle of the street. All in all, it's not a great area, and as safe as I feel in Vic most of the time, it's not a place I would go alone at night.

 

[Satchie]

This poor girl was found at my daughter's school. She was found in a place out back where a lot of the kids hang out to "smoke". My daughter said she's been back there between when she was missing and when she was found and they didn't notice a thing.

It's a very strange place to bury someone; it's right next to a VERY busy street (Blanchard, which turns into Pat Bay Hwy). It's hard to imagine nobody seeing anything. However, there is a LOT of homeless/ drug activity in the area-- the big field (in FRONT of the school) is filled with people camping at night. There is a lot of panhandling up and down Blanchard-- people walk right down the middle of the street. All in all, it's not a great area, and as safe as I feel in Vic most of the time, it's not a place I would go alone at night.

Thanks for the insights into this sad case. I looked at some video/audio of the police/forensics on the site http://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/b...tified-as-missing-25-year-old-woman-1.3561850, and at google maps.

It seems to be a wild area/embankment between the school on the plateau and the much lower roads. It seems to be fenced off to prevent access from the school yard, but presumably there are trails into it from the top of the secluded driveway off Topaz. A lot of loose dirt was piled up, probably to create a sound/visual barrier from the busy traffic below, so very easy digging. And no houses nearby, plus school being out, it strikes me as a fairly ideal place, within a busy city, to try to hide a body by burying it deeply enough that it wouldn't attract notice. Even though somehow it wasn't hidden well enough.

As you say, it's very seclusion would appeal to students and homeless people. Possibly also blackberry pickers, at this tiime of year.

It strikes me as the kind of place someone would have to know about already, rather than a place that, having accidentally killed someone and desperately trying to think what to do, would come to mind.

Also, the need for a tarp, a shovel, most likely a car (I think the tarp indicates she was likely brought there in a vehicle), most likely rules out a homeless person, to me. I'm sorry to say, I wonder if it was a former student from the school.

All just my speculation and testing my experience from other cases. I'm sure the police know a great deal and hope they catch this person.

 

[Satchie]

I looked a bit more and found a story about how the body was found: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/l...remains-found-at-s-j-willis-school-1.22108490

An excavator operator who works for the school board told the Times Colonist that he found the body while working in the area around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday (August 22). He said the human remains appeared to have been buried and wrapped in a tarp or a tent....The man, who identified himself as Dan, said he and other workers were cleaning up junk in the area when they were overcome by a foul smell.....He said the remains were covered in soil “a good depth.”......He suspected the remains were there for quite some time because the ground was quite hard. “To dig in something that hard — it had to be compacted for a long time.”

Crikey! So she might have remained hidden if there hadn't been a crew with an excavator happen to go in digging the place up.

His comment about soil being compacted struck me at first as indicating maybe she'd been there longer than 3 weeks, but then the odor wouldn't have been noticeable.

 

[Satchie]

I was trying to place the origins of her name, she appears to have immigrated with her family from Thailand.

Wanichpan had been a student at Camosun College, where she studied art. Before that, she was a student at Victoria High School. After high school, she worked in restaurants and lived in Vancouver for a time, friends said.

“I went to high school with her...When we were freshmen, her English was not so great, but she didn’t close herself off to only hanging out with other Thai kids. She made sure to try to make friends with everyone. She was just so fun, and was just so friendly and brought a lot of laughter to everyone around her.”

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/l...rounds-identified-as-missing-woman-1.22182450

 

[Diet Prada]

I joined this site exclusively because Euar was the sister of my best friend in high school and I was absolutely devastated when the news broke out about her murder. There has been NOTHING in the last 2 years in terms of development on this case and listening to crime junkies brought me here to try and find answers or at least keep her story alive. I am so happy to see that there is at least a small thread on her and that there are people out there who care about what happened to her.

 

[Satchie]

I joined this site exclusively because Euar was the sister of my best friend in high school and I was absolutely devastated when the news broke out about her murder. There has been NOTHING in the last 2 years in terms of development on this case and listening to crime junkies brought me here to try and find answers or at least keep her story alive. I am so happy to see that there is at least a small thread on her and that there are people out there who care about what happened to her.

Welcome, tho I'm sorry for your personal knowledge of this terrible crime. It does seem unusual for there to be no information on this case, but IMO that might be because her family live in Thailand, so aren't available for media interviews.

I think police are investigating diligently behind the scenes, they generally only involve the public if they're looking for witnesses to something that happened in public.

I notice in the last news report in late summer 2017, there was an indication she had "struggled with drug addiction and worked in the sex trade." The article also includes an interview with her boyfriend, who got home very late the night she disappeared.
Victoria suspicious death: ‘Where she was found, someone had to see it’

IMO, solving the case may be a challenge if she was hanging around with people who don't want to talk to police. There can also be situations where police believe they know what happened, but don't have enough evidence to prove it, yet. I hope they crack the case soon, so she can receive justice.