Serial killer may have struck again
Canadian Press
POSTED AT 8:14 PM EDT Tuesday, Jun 15, 2004
Sherwood Park, Alta. — Mounties have suggested that a serial killer may be responsible for a number of bodies found dumped in a wooded area after an autopsy Tuesday revealed the identity of remains found last weekend.
Police have identified the body found last Friday northeast of this community as Rachel Liz Quinney, 19, of Edmonton.
Ms. Quinney was known to police as a sex trade worker.
Since 1988, the bodies of twelve other people — many of them sex trade workers — have been discovered within a 17-kilometre radius of the site in Sherwood Park, a community that is east of Edmonton.
RCMP have said a serial killer could be responsible for some of the deaths.
“At this point in time we are comfortable in saying that one person may, and I emphasize the word may, be responsible for more than one of these homicides,” said Cpl. Wayne Oakes.
Forty investigators have been assigned to the case, including Project Kare, a special task force looking into dozens of cases of murdered or missing women in Western Canada.
Police will not say how or when Ms. Quinney died, but they are treating the case as a homicide.
“This is a homicide and unfortunately a lot of aspects of the investigation must be treated as evidence and accordingly will come out in a court of law,” said Cpl. Oakes.
RCMP are warning women who work in the sex trade to take extra precautions.
Canadian Press
POSTED AT 8:14 PM EDT Tuesday, Jun 15, 2004
Sherwood Park, Alta. — Mounties have suggested that a serial killer may be responsible for a number of bodies found dumped in a wooded area after an autopsy Tuesday revealed the identity of remains found last weekend.
Police have identified the body found last Friday northeast of this community as Rachel Liz Quinney, 19, of Edmonton.
Ms. Quinney was known to police as a sex trade worker.
Since 1988, the bodies of twelve other people — many of them sex trade workers — have been discovered within a 17-kilometre radius of the site in Sherwood Park, a community that is east of Edmonton.
RCMP have said a serial killer could be responsible for some of the deaths.
“At this point in time we are comfortable in saying that one person may, and I emphasize the word may, be responsible for more than one of these homicides,” said Cpl. Wayne Oakes.
Forty investigators have been assigned to the case, including Project Kare, a special task force looking into dozens of cases of murdered or missing women in Western Canada.
Police will not say how or when Ms. Quinney died, but they are treating the case as a homicide.
“This is a homicide and unfortunately a lot of aspects of the investigation must be treated as evidence and accordingly will come out in a court of law,” said Cpl. Oakes.
RCMP are warning women who work in the sex trade to take extra precautions.