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- Story of Eva Mitchell
Eva Mitchell walked away from her home on the Kelly Lake Metis Settlement near Pouce Coupe, B.C. on Aug. 20, 2004. She was 83 years old. Search teams failed to find any signs of her. Her family told the media they thought she had just gone out for a walk, as she did every day. They think she went into the wilderness and got lost or disoriented. The media report also said Mitchell is blind in one eye. She had lived in Kelly Lake for more than 40 years and was a hunter and trapper. Dawson Creek RCMP are investigating.
- Story of Elaine Freida Alook
Elaine was last seen on May 11, 2004 on Tower Road outside of Fort McMurray, Alberta. She was 35 years old at the time. At the time of her disappearance Elaine had a broken left arm and was last seen wearing blue jeans, a t-shirt, black bomber style jacket and running shoes. She was 5 '3 ``, weighed 135 pounds, had black hair and brown eyes.
- Story of Edith Angalik
Edith was Inuit from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. She was beaten to death by her abusive partner. They had been drinking at a friend’s house on November 21, 2014, when her partner left around 3 a.m. to find another party. When he returned an hour later, he found Edith with another man. He beat the woman unconscious and was later spotted dragging her lifeless body down the street in -30 C temperatures.
- Story of Danielle LaRue
Danielle Marissa LaRue protected her younger brother and sister while growing up, but in November 2002, the 24-year-old disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The Vancouver Police Department is investigating what they believe to be LaRue’s murder.
- Story of Darlinda Ritchey
Darlinda Lee Ritchey, 26, was found in a shallow grave along with Karen Baker, 20, by Indian River Road in North Vancouver in British Columbia in 1986. David Couture was convicted of second-degree murder in 2003, but he was acquitted in 2008 after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that his estranged wife’s testimony, in which she alleged that he confessed to the killings, should not have been admitted as evidence. At the time, Ritchey’s sister, Korry, said justice had not been served. “I feel there is no justice system in this country,” she said. “[This is] one of many cases of murder in this country where it’s a joke, where the criminal gets to walk for free. The justice system in this country works for the criminal and not for the victims.”
- Story of Deanna Bellerose
Deanna Marie Bellerose was a mother of four children: Amber, Aimee, Tristan, and Julian. The 29-year-old was last seen getting into a car near 95 Street and 105 A Avenue in Edmonton, on September 9, 2002. More than 10 years later, on May 16, 2012, her remains were found by a surveyor near Morinville, Alberta, roughly 40 kilometers from where she disappeared. The Bellerose family held a memorial service on Tuesday, July 17, 2012. The KARE unit, an RCMP entity that investigates and reviews files of murdered or missing vulnerable persons throughout Alberta, continues to investigate Deanna’s case. Deanna’s sister, Ginger Lee Bellerose, was murdered in Edmonton in 2001. Ginger’s case has been solved.
- Story of Debbie Pelletier
Debbie Faye Pelletier, a mother of four, lived in Regina, Sask. She was known to be funny, happy, caring and as someone who loved her children unconditionally. She was found stabbed to death in a house in Regina on Dec. 25, 1988. She was 27 years old. Her death was investigated by the Regina Police Service and the Saskatchewan Office of the Chief Coroner. Debbie’s death was ruled a homicide.
- Story of Deborah Sloss
Deborah Anne Sloss, 42, was found dead in the Toronto rooming house where she lived on July 29, 1997, after police responded to a 911 call. Toronto police say there is no evidence that criminal activity played any part in Sloss’s death. However, her family says there were several discrepancies in the investigation. They also allege police used hurtful labels to describe her after death.
- Story of Deidre Michelin
Deidre Marie Michelin, 21, was a mother of four from Rigolet, an Inuit community on the north coast of Labrador. She loved to make people around her laugh and she enjoyed cooking and learning traditional crafts. Michelin loved her children immensely. On Jan. 20, 1993, she made a distressed call to the Happy Valley-Goose Bay RCMP, 160 kilometers from her home. On that same day, she was shot and killed in a murder-suicide by her domestic partner. In 2018, her mother spoke at the MMIWG inquiry hearings in Labrador. She said that her daughter had been calling the RCMP all day, but the remoteness of the community resulted in tragedy. Since her daughter's death, Charlotte Wolfrey fought to get an RCMP detachment in Rigolet, she was successful.
- Story of Delaine Copenace
Delaine Copenace, 16, was reported missing in Kenora, Ont., on Feb. 28, 2016, and her body was found in a nearby lake almost a month later. The Ontario coroner determined there was no foul play involved, but a regional coroner later said the investigation was not complete. Her mother, Anita Ross, says police delayed the search for her daughter and suggested the teen had run away from home.
- Story of Delena Lefthand Dixon
Delena Lefthand Dixon, a 20-year-old mother, was shot and killed in August 2008 in Maskwacis (formally called Hobbema), a community about 100 kilometers south of Edmonton, Alberta, that is home to four First Nations. Someone fired a bullet through the wall of a home where Lefthand, her one-year-old baby and a group of other girls were gathered. RCMP have said she was likely an unintended victim of gang violence in the community; Dixon had no gang connections.
- Story of Della Ootoova
Della Ootoova, 46, died in 2008 after her common-law spouse called police in Iqaluit and reported that she was not breathing. An initial toxicology report stated she consumed a lethal amount of alcohol, but her family says her spouse was violently abusive toward her and contributed to her death. In fact, Amos Ootoova was originally charged with murder, though the charges were stayed the same day. He was allegedly killed by his common-law spouse in 2009, but those charges were also stayed, according to media reports. Although Della’s autopsy was conducted on June 9, 2008, the coroner’s report was not completed until May 2009. It stated that Della had suffered sudden cardiac death from blunt force trauma injuries in combination with a heart condition. Her family wants to know why it took so long to get the reports into her death.












