Found Deceased Canada- Sherry Shelley, 64, last seen Walmart/Old Logging Rd., poss. w. her white 2013 Volkswagen Tiguan, Nanaimo, BC, 13/14 Nov., 2025,*Suspicious*.

[acutename]

it wouldn't be the first time someone was abducted or attacked in a store parking lot but there is usually CCTV showing the victim being followed or the suspect loitering in the parking lot

if police had any store surveillance showing anything connected, I think they would've released that info?

I used to go shopping alone overnight at grocery stores and Walmart - not anymore ...

sunset in Nanimo 11/11/25 was 4:39 p.m.so was she there late or just after dark?

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4:39 PM
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 (PST)
Sunset in Nanaimo, BC, Canada

 

[Cedars]

sunset in Nanimo 11/11/25 was 4:39 p.m.so was she there late or just after dark?

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4:39 PM
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 (PST)
Sunset in Nanaimo, BC, Canada

Police say she was in the Walmart around 9:30 pm, talking on her phone.

https://nanaimonewsnow.com/2025/11/15/search-intensifies-for-missing-nanaimo-woman-last-seen-thursday/

 

[Cedars]

I hope this isn’t another Debbie Collier case.

Hope not - but, IMO, Canadian police, family, media, just would never release all that info, like the CCTV footage, Venmo message, details about the son-in-law, to allow the public to follow the case as it blew up...

JMO

 

[Snoopster]

Police say she was in the Walmart around 9:30 pm, talking on her phone.

https://nanaimonewsnow.com/2025/11/15/search-intensifies-for-missing-nanaimo-woman-last-seen-thursday/

Just to clarify...they say she was communicating on her phone, which may imply texting rather than a phone conversation.


ETA: And, if a text, that doesn't confirm that SHE sent the text.

 

[Rexa]

Maybe searching for valuables? Making room for something else?

unless someone else was in the vehicle making room for something or someone??

 

[Snoopster]

What did Sherry buy at WalMart....and was it with the stuff thrown out of her car? If not, why not? Has it been confirmed that she actually made it into WalMart?

 

[LadyL]

Not the RCMP, they give nothing away unnecessarily. Just the bare minimum that may bring forward witnesses.

JMO

yes but a picture or video of the perp or his car would bring witnesses a lot faster than nothing IMO could bring them the identity and location of a murderer or abductor ... could bring them the location of the victim

makes me think they don't have any useful video

 

[Cedars]

Sadly, Sherry has been confirmed deceased.

Her body was found the day after she disappeared, inside her burned car, on the other side of Nanaimo from the Walmart.

It's still a homicide investigation, so the RCMP aren't revealing anything else.
They're looking for dashcam footage from a few very specific areas.

Missing Nanaimo woman Sherry Shelley found dead in apparent homicide: RCMP

Nanaimo RCMP say missing 65-year-old Sherry Shelley was found dead following a car fire last month and are now investigating the case as a homicide.

cheknews.ca

 

[tarabull]

https://nanaimonewsnow.com/2025/12/09/murder-investigation-underway-after-missing-nanaimo-woman-found-inside-burned-vehicle/

 

[Eli9]

I hate this. She sounded like such a beloved member of her community.

 

[Snoopster]

https://nanaimonewsnow.com/2025/12/09/murder-investigation-underway-after-missing-nanaimo-woman-found-inside-burned-vehicle/

So LE suspected from the very next day after Sherry disappeared that she was killed. They suspected that it was her body in the burned out vehicle.

Key points I took from this article:

- LE interested in witnesses who might have seen Sherry's vehicle on the night she disappeared, particularly along two possible routes to the College Drive place where she was found burned in her car:
- via Nanaimo Parkway, Jingle Pot Rd, OR,
- from Harwood Rd (Lantzville) along Old Logging Road to Vipond Rd.

- the time delay in reaching out to the public for this info (and for announcing Sherry's death) was due to the challenge of identifying her body.

- LE said 'no comment' re any suspects or POIs.

- LE doesn't 'presently' believe that there is a connection to the Mahadi Redwan case (the hit and run around the same time).

 

[Snoopster]

From CHEK news video.
Missing Nanaimo woman Sherry Shelley found dead in apparent homicide: RCMP
Here are 3 routes police are interested in (want videos/witnesses):

 

[Snoopster]

OK, the CHEK news article says that police DO have persons of interest. That's great news!!

Missing Nanaimo woman Sherry Shelley found dead in apparent homicide: RCMP

On Tuesday, Nanaimo RCMP spokesperson Const. Sherri Wade told CHEK News investigators already have “significant leads from the evidence they’ve gathered,” including persons of interest who have been identified.

Sherry’s daughter says the family was previously notified that her mother’s vehicle and likely body had been found, but the news hadn’t been shared in her community.

My heart breaks for Sherry's daughter.

 

[Cedars]

From CHEK news video.
Missing Nanaimo woman Sherry Shelley found dead in apparent homicide: RCMP
Here are 3 routes police are interested in (want videos/witnesses):

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Thanks very much for doing that, very helpful.

That's the mountainside route around Nanaimo - low population with very few cameras. IMO, someone would need to be familiar with those roads in the daytime, there'd be few street lights at night, and some dead ends.

I also notice where her car was left is very walkable to downtown, so one perp could have managed, wouldn't have needed an accomplice to drive them away.

 

[Snoopster]

Great point!

Thanks very much for doing that, very helpful.

That's the mountainside route around Nanaimo - low population with very few cameras. IMO, someone would need to be familiar with those roads in the daytime, there'd be few street lights at night, and some dead ends.

I also notice where her car was left is very walkable to downtown, so one perp could have managed, wouldn't have needed an accomplice to drive them away.

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Great point!

So keeping with this thought, was Sherry actually at WalMart? Her daughter said she communicated with her mother while she was there. Could someone have pretended to be her in text messages? Or, if it was actually Sherry? The perp would have either had to take transit to WalMart or have left his own vehicle up at WalMart. Is there a reasonable transit route from downtown Nanaimo up to WalMart?

 

[Cedars]

was Sherry actually at WalMart? ... Could someone have pretended to be her in text messages? Or, if it was actually Sherry, the perp would have either had to take transit to WalMart or have left his own vehicle up at WalMart. Is there a reasonable transit route from downtown Nanaimo up to WalMart?

Yes, it's at the end of the Rapid Line bus from downtown, takes about 20 mins.

However, I have never heard of a killer taking a transit bus. It's just not a power move, and such a crime must require feeling powerful.

Other scenarios if it was one person who left their vehicle near Walmart
-stealing a car to go back that way and abandoning the stolen car
- maybe asking a close friend for a ride out there, with some kind of excuse
- biking, if they're into that and can put the bike into their own vehicle.

IMO, if it was staged then it would have been staged from somewhere far away from Walmart - eg downtown, where Sherry lived.

JMO

 

[natbee]

This is so very sad. I wasn't aware of this case, but it made me emotional thinking of my own mum around the same age.

Very unusual victim, hence why police were immediately concerned. I noticed (I think) that there is no mention of a husband being worried - just daughter. I may have missed this, but is Sherry single? Sherry is an older woman, seemingly middle class (I could be wrong, but her facebook pictures, car, etc. give that feel). I can't imagine there would be a lot of drama or enemies at that point in your life, which leads me to believe it's someone she already knows. I'm guessing it's not a current new love interest, as I feel that would have been more chaotic. This seems like they had the a goal and they had planned it out well. This seems too well thought-out to be a crime of opportunity (need to know backroads, know the route to get away, have something to start a fire). Based on a guess alone, I would think that she knew the suspect, the suspect got in her car with her, and then forced her to the remote location. The personal items thrown out of the car seems like an attempt to make it seem like a robbery of some sort - staged. It seems like this person didn't want to get messy about it and just wanted it done, which makes me think that the way they killed her probably wasn't very physical. Taken together (and knowing very little about the case), I'm getting ex-husband vibes from it.

Again, all hunches. I want to remain respectful of this case.

 

[Snoopster]

It seems to me that she was attacked in or right near her car since her body was found in her car.

This is so very sad. I wasn't aware of this case, but it made me emotional thinking of my own mum around the same age.

Very unusual victim, hence why police were immediately concerned. I noticed (I think) that there is no mention of a husband being worried - just daughter. I may have missed this, but is Sherry single? Sherry is an older woman, seemingly middle class (I could be wrong, but her facebook pictures, car, etc. give that feel). I can't imagine there would be a lot of drama or enemies at that point in your life, which leads me to believe it's someone she already knows. I'm guessing it's not a current new love interest, as I feel that would have been more chaotic. This seems like they had the a goal and they had planned it out well. This seems too well thought-out to be a crime of opportunity (need to know backroads, know the route to get away, have something to start a fire). Based on a guess alone, I would think that she knew the suspect, the suspect got in her car with her, and then forced her to the remote location. The personal items thrown out of the car seems like an attempt to make it seem like a robbery of some sort - staged. It seems like this person didn't want to get messy about it and just wanted it done, which makes me think that the way they killed her probably wasn't very physical. Taken together (and knowing very little about the case), I'm getting ex-husband vibes from it.

Again, all hunches. I want to remain respectful of this case.

What a well-thought-out comment natbee, and welcome the thread.
Yes, it seems unlikely that it was random since what would the motive be? It doesn't like a random mugging or SA since they wouldn't have gone to the trouble to dump stuff out of her car.

 

[Cedars]

It seems to me that she was attacked in or right near her car since her body was found in her car.

What a well-thought-out comment natbee, and welcome the thread.
Yes, it seems unlikely that it was random since what would the motive be? It doesn't like a random mugging or SA since they wouldn't have gone to the trouble to dump stuff out of her car.

It also seems to me that if police, at this stage, believed it was random, this would be a time to issue a public caution.

JMO

 

[LookingForClues]

I don't think it was random. I think she knew the person, but perhaps not well. She's known for helping people who are down and out. She might have tried to help someone with bad intentions.