Al6 - Sumaday, July &, 1934 - North Shore News

Still searching for a name

From page A3 and scoured a four-block
area around the Alcazar, on
the frimess of Vancouver’s

They know she was soll Skid Row. An artist was

aiwe when she went m th 3 calied m 1t0 remake the

creek aml that while the  broned and bettered face m

cause of death was drown to whal police says is the

img, she would have died = “best guess” about what the
anyway because of the womnn looked ike

At the end of it all, police
had only been able to
discover thal ome man was
““fanrty certain” he had seen
the wonan at the Alcazar on
the day before she was
murdered.

““Usually,”” says Cst.
Wan, “ewHhm mmute of
fonding a body, we know the
wientaty and we can start
tracking down associates and
famnly oeembers and carry-

three weeks from
discovery of the body. Thy
quizzed resademts of the areca
where the body was found

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ing oul our investigation.””
Bur there is nothing usual
about this case and ‘“‘after a
few years and thousands of
hours of work, we still
don’t know who we are
looking at’”, Wait says.
Without that knowledge,
in effect, the investigation

RCMP’s computer terminal
and sets in motion an ‘‘off-
line search’’, attempting to
match the description of the
murdered women with
women who have been
reported missing. To date
there have been 75 or 80
possible matches made; to

Unsolved

mto the murder itself cannot
proceed.

Four times over the past
three years, usually on a date
near the anniversary of the
crime, Wait sits down at the

date Wait has ruled out all
of them.

‘*We know a lot of people
she isn’t,’’ says Wait.
**We’ve even found some
missing relatives for a
number of people.”’

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search, the flyer containing
the woman’s description,
beacuse of her native Indian
features, has gone to every
Indian band in Canada and
in some 15 of the U.S.

Every dentist’s office in
the country has_ received
photos of the dental work
and her fingerprints were
searched in Ottawa in at-
tempts to have the woman
identified.

Despite all that and more,
despite having done
*‘everything in the realm of
possibility’’, the woman —
between 20 and 24 years of
age, five feet, five inches tall
and weighing 120 pounds,
part-Causcasian with native
Indian features, light brown

hair, brown eyes and
freckles — remains a
mystery.

Wait says once the identity
is made, ‘‘we might solve the
case just like that.’’ More
likely, though, having her
name will only mark the
start of another long period
of investigation as police at-

tempt to determine who kill-
ed her. The three years that
have passed since then will
make that work even harder
— the Alcazar Hotel, for in-
stance, has been demolished.

So police wait, doing what
they can. The file on the
unknown woman will stay
open ‘‘as long as it takes’’.

**We don’t close them,’ a
detective says bluntly.

And as they wait, police
remain puzzled by one final
item which may or may not
be connected to the murder.

On the morning of Febru-
ary 18, 1981, while police
were opening their investiga-
tion into the murder, a man
telephoned police tq say that
his wife had gone missing at
midnight the night before.

He was told police could
not move on that until suffi-
cient time had passed to of-
ficially make the woman a
missing person. Despite be-
ing pressed to do so, he
would not leave his name.

The man never phoned
back.

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