Adrienne Amikons was brutally murdered on December 18, 1997 by Jean Anne Rudski a woman whom her mother had met at the Peterborough Native Friendship Centre. Adrienne was decapitated inside her home at the age of 14. Ms. Rudski often visited the Amikons’ home before the murder, but decided to drive back to her hometown of Alberta at the beginning of December. She didn’t make it far before her car broke down and she ended up in a psychiatric hospital in Barrie which she was released from only days before the murder.

Abigail Andrews, 28, was an expectant mother, but was not yet showing. The Métis woman worked at FSJ Fashions and The Frontier Bar and Grill in Fort St. John, B.C. before she vanished. She was last seen on April 7, 2010, walking home from her friend’s house. Her father said it’s out-of-character for her to lose touch, she disappeared with only the clothes she was wearing, her purse and phone, no transactions were ever made with her bank card. In 2013, the RCMP released a re-enactment video in hopes of stirring up memories and new leads, the investigation found one suspect. The RCMP Provincial Serious Crime Unit is investigating.

Audrey Mary Desjarlais, a member of Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, raised her children in Saskatchewan. About 15 years ago, she left her family in Regina, and relocated to Steinbach, Man. Her daughter Barb Desjarlais says Audrey always called to check in but those calls stopped in 2011. The Desjarlais family hasn’t heard from her since. In April, 2015, Winnipeg Police Service requested Barb’s DNA, to follow up on the possibility that unidentified remains pulled from Winnipeg’s Red River in June 2012 are those of her mother. DNA tests confirmed the remains belonged to Audrey. Police are still investigating her death.

Annette Margaret Holywhiteman was last seen in the Edmonton, Alberta, area late in the summer of 2008. The 44-year-old woman’s skull was found by hunters in November 2010 on a rural property near Westlock, Alta. She was known to have led a high-risk lifestyle. The KARE unit, an RCMP entity that investigates and reviews files of murdered or missing vulnerable persons throughout Alberta, is handling the homicide case.

Alberta Gail Williams, 24, was living with her sister in a downtown Vancouver apartment when they decided to take a break from city life and try out seasonal work in northern British Columbia for the summer. On September 25, 1989, her body was found on the outskirts of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. In 2006, her death was added to Project E-PANA, the police task force that investigates disappearances and murders along B.C’s Highway of Tears. In 2016, her story was part of an eight-episode CBC podcast, called Missing and Murdered, by Connie Walker. The podcast helped uncover new information that was never used by the RCMP, including a witness who was never interviewed by the police. In July 2017, Alberta’s brother, Francis Williams created a memorial cross where her body was found in 1989 in hopes that it will help someone come forward.

Alannah Jamima Cardinal, 20, had recently received an acceptance letter from Portage College in Alberta when she disappeared on July 16, 2016. Her body was recovered nine days later near her home community of Goodfish Lake, Alta., a Cree community about 185 kilometers northeast of Edmonton. Cardinal’s death was classified a suicide by the coroner, but her family doesn’t believe she took her own life. St. Paul RCMP handled her case.

Alishia (Leah) Germaine, 15, was last seen at a Christmas dinner at the Native Friendship Centre in Prince George, British Columbia, in December 1994. She was later found slain near an elementary school close to Highway 16, also known as the Highway of Tears. The RCMP investigation into the deaths of Germaine and other women who went missing or were found murdered along this highway is called Project E-PANA.

Amanda Cook went missing from the Harvest Fair Festival in Rossburn, Man., on July 13, 1996. The 14 year old girl had gone to the fair with her dad and brother from the Waywayseecappo First Nation just outside Rossburn. She was found dead four days later on July 17, and an autopsy determined she had been beaten to death. Clayton George Mentuck was later charged in her death and tried three times. Ultimately, he was found not guilty of second degree murder.

Amanda Sophia Bartlett, 17, planned to become a published author, but was seen for the last time in July 1996 around Winnipeg’s Selkirk Avenue at Salter Street. She was living in a group home and had run away, the group home told the family they had no obligation to follow her. Winnipeg Police only started work on the missing persons case in February 2008. It took 12 years and the help of Amnesty International to finally have her classified as a missing person. In November 2012, the case was assigned to Project Devote, a task force dedicated to missing and murdered persons cases in Manitoba. In 2018, Amanda’s family spoke at the MMIWG inquiry hearing in Thompson, Manitoba. Her mother and sister both shared their frustrations about how hard it was to report Amanda missing, they were bounced back and forth between the RCMP and the Winnipeg Police Service about who was responsible for trying to find her. “Why was my word, and my mom’s word, not good enough? Why did they have to make us wait so long?” said Amanda’s sister, Janet Lowther.

Abigail Andrews, 28, was an expectant mother, but was not yet showing. The Métis woman worked at FSJ Fashions and The Frontier Bar and Grill in Fort St. John, B.C. before she vanished. She was last seen on April 7, 2010, walking home from her friend’s house. Her father said it’s out-of-character for her to lose touch, she disappeared with only the clothes she was wearing, her purse and phone, no transactions were ever made with her bank card. In 2013, the RCMP released a re-enactment video in hopes of stirring up memories and new leads, the investigation found one suspect. The RCMP Provincial Serious Crime Unit is investigating.

Ada Elaine Brown, 41, was found dead in a hotel room in Prince George, B.C., on April 9, 2001. A coroner’s report classified her death as “undetermined,” even though a post-mortem examination mentioned previous assaults and noted that she had black eyes. Her family rejects official statements that Brown died of natural causes, saying they strongly believe a man was responsible.

Aielah Saric-Auger was 14 when she disappeared on Feb. 2, 2006. Family members said the Leidli T’enneh First Nations teen had spent the night at a friend's house. She was last spotted near a downtown bar in Prince George, British Columbia. Her family plastered “missing” posters all over downtown Prince George, but a week after she went missing a passing motorist travelling east to Prince George on Highway 16 found her body lying at the base of the highway embankment. Her case is being investigated by Project E-PANA, a task force dedicated to unsolved murders with links to Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert, otherwise known as The Highway of Tears.