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Many residents are starting to wonder, whether the serial killer of the dozens
of women, may in fact be a COP, a lawyer, or even a judge?

Is that why the incompetent Edmonton police, DO NOT WANT TO ARREST THE KILLER
- because he is one of their own?

From: (glork)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Edmonton Alberta - Haven For Serial Killers
Date: 8 Aug 2005 20:26:30 GMT

INDEPTH: EDMONTON MURDERS
Edmonton's murdered women
CBC News Online | Updated June 20, 2005

EDMONTON MURDERS:
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Police in Edmonton are looking for someone whom many people are calling a
serial killer, targeting women. They have released a profile of a man they
believe has killed several prostitutes and have offered a $100,000 reward for
information leading to his arrest.

The profile prepared by the RCMP's Behavioural Science Branch suggests he:

* Drives a reliable, high-mileage truck, van or sport utility vehicle,
and is comfortable driving in rural areas.
* Likes to hunt, fish, camp or participate in other outdoor activities.
* Has a past or present connection to the area south of Edmonton,
including Leduc, Camrose and New Sarepta.
* May clean his vehicle at odd times of the day.

Since 1983, the bodies of more than 20 Edmonton women have been found. All
are described by police as being prostitutes or having high-risk lifestyles
and only five of the cases have been solved.

The site where remains of 22-year-old Cara King were found in 1997.

The situation has stoked the growing fear in the city's estimated yearly
population of 400 sex trade workers.

Kourch Chan is a social worker with Crossroads, an outreach program for
Edmonton sex trade workers. In an interview with CBC News Online in 2003, he
said many of his clients had been "nervous and quite scared," since the
bodies of Melissa Munch and Monique Pitre were discovered that month. "People
are a little more hesitant to get out," he said. "There's a lot of
speculation that there's one person who could have (committed the murders)."

While RCMP investigators say they have no information to prove any of the
deaths are related, they have joined forces with Edmonton city police to
explore the possibility. City police are reopening all old case files
involving missing women to see if there is any link to the most recent
crimes.

Here is a list of women who have been found under similar circumstances since
1983:

* May 6, 2005:
The body of sex-trade worker Ellie May Meyer, 33, is found near
Sherwood Park.

* April 18, 2005:
RCMP in Alberta identify the body of Charlene Gauld, 20, who burned
remains were found near Camrose.

* 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, an Edmonton suburb.

* 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 outside Edmonton in 2003, the fifth in 10 months. Her
body was located in a field near Range Road 235, just north of Township Road
500.

* April 12, 2003
The skull and remains of 29-year-old Debbie Lake, a former prostitute,
are found near Highway 623 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 west of Range Road 220 and south of Highway 16 in Strathcona
County. The discovery is made four days after the body of Monique Pitre was
found less than 10 kilometres away.


There were an estimated 400 sex trade workers in Edmonton in 2003.
* Jan. 8, 2003
The frozen body of Monique Pitre, 30, is found in a field south of Fort
Saskatchewan (Range Road 222 and Township Rd). 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, near Range Road 245, north of Highway 623.

* Jan. 27, 2001
24-year-old Kelly Dawn Reilly is found dead behind a gravel operation
in the area of Range Road 264 and secondary highway 633, near Villeneuve.

* Sept. 1, 1997
22-year-old Cara King is found in a canola field in Sherwood Park
(Highway 214 and Hwy. 16), east of Edmonton.

* 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, near 17th Street
and 89th Avenue. RCMP spokesperson Roxanne Beaubien says Hewitt 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 at 11925-34th Street East. 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 on 183rd Street near Stony Plain Road,
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 Edmonton business, West End Studio, at 15526
Stony Plain Road. 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. 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.

Solved Murders

* 1993: Linda Giles (circumstances unavailable)

* 1996: Charmaine Pidlesny (circumstances unavailable)

* 1999: Sherry Ann Upright (circumstances unavailable)

* 1999: Catherine Ann Burrell (circumstances unavailable)

* April 26, 2001: Ginger Lee Bellerose is found in the courtyard area of
Edmonton's International Hotel (since razed). The 26-year-old mother had been
beaten to death. The murder was solved March 14, 2003 and 52-year-old
Medicine Hat resident Richard David Douglas was charged with second-degree
murder. Edmonton police do not suspect this murder was connected with the
others.

Sources: Edmonton Police Service; RCMP; Prostitution Awareness and Action
Foundation of Edmonton; Canadian Press


On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:36:42 GMT, trauth wrote:

yes it does happen pretty much in all big cities.....
by the way i started this one ....''''avoid Edmonton at all cost""
but please one must take a newsgroup not too seriously...but it is a
great source of informations...
to prepare your travelling...would you not say so???

another fact about Edmonton,,,there is a serial killer that kills
prostitutes...
$100 000 reward is offered for any tips leading to the arrrest of
anyone found guilty of any of the murders...
there is a serial killer on the loose but not all were killed by a serial
killer....

Interesting fact: one of the prostitutes killed was last seen with
two men just in front of an hotel that is just a few hundred feet from
the police station....
So it is possible that a cop that kills hookers is on the loose although
very unlikely ,It is possible because that police force is extremely
rotten....
I just lost my job today because i wrote against the Edmonton
Police Service....That is how they are..they litterally destroyed the
life of those that criticise them...

If you travel this summer,anywhere you choose to go...enjoy the
summer.
Me after what happened today i won't enjoy any of it.....

There is so much bad news about this place, with more and more businesses
leaving town, some quietly, others with bad p.r. sessions!

Trauth is telling the truth, and not even ALL of it.

He is not reporting on the crooks in the city tax department, who got caught
giving a lawyer a discount of HALF A MILLION DOLLARS in assessment on his
house, while shafting neighbours with over-assessments!! Corruption, wouldn't
you say?
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Patrick Keenan wrote:

Many residents are starting to wonder, whether the serial killer of the dozens
of women, may in fact be a COP, a lawyer, or even a judge?

Yeah, right. From the number of times this has been posted it sounds more like
someone who got in trouble with the Edmonton police is suffering from delusions.

Dave Smith wrote:

Patrick Keenan wrote:


Many residents are starting to wonder,


Yeah, right. From the number of times this has been posted it sounds more like
someone who got in trouble with the Edmonton police is suffering from delusions.



Nah. Just some Calgary fear of losing a Lufthansa flight.