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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

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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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