Memorial March for the Missing and Murdered Women of Edmonton

Contact:
Danielle Boudreau
March Organizer
Phone: (780) 919-5707
Email: memorialmarch@live.com

Memorial March for the Missing and Murdered Women of Edmonton
Press Release

For immediate release - Please announce the following event:

5th Annual Memorial March for the Missing and Murdered Women of Edmonton
Edmonton hits the streets to honor missing and murdered women
Edmonton, AB February 14, 2010:

On Valentine’s Day 2006, the first Annual Memorial March for the Missing and Murdered Women of Edmonton was born by organizer Danielle Boudreau.

In June 2004, her best friend sister in law Rachel Quinney was found dead and mutilated. A year later, Ellie May Meyer was found in the same way, murdered and left in a field not far from where Rachel and numerous others had been found.

Danielle Boudreau swore she’d bring attention to the plight of these women.
On February 14, 2010 men and women across Canada will be walking to raise awareness for the many mothers, sisters, and daughters who have been murdered or who are missing.

Edmontonians can show their solidarity and support to help raise awareness and honor these women afflicted by violence.

Please join us at 6:30pm on Saturday, February 14th at Sacred Heart Church (10821 – 96 Street) for this March.

Please wear red or purple.

For more information contact Danielle Boudreau by Phone: (780) 919-5707 or Email: memorialmarch@live.com

Thank you for your help in spreading the word for this most worthwhile event!

CUE Center NATIONAL ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE FOR MISSING PERSONS

NATIONAL ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE FOR MISSING PERSONS - Coming March 2010

Who Should attended? Families of the missing, advocates, law officers, coroners, forensic specialist, search personnel (all types), non profit missing person organizations, government agencies, private investigations and more.

National Round Table Conference Goals: * Sharing a trained and professional view for solving cold case and search there of; missing persons * Understanding the resources available to be deployed when needed, what their capabilities are and how to obtain them. * Exploring the relevant positive and negative experiences of people who have experienced a missing loved one. * Creating new approaches to missing persons cases, and effectively deploying available resources; building communication and support * Developing a high-level view of the modifications needed to our current resources and organizational community over the next five years.

Missing persons website adds new hope

Posted By Bobby Roy
Posted 1 hour ago

Every family’s worst nightmare is to hear that a loved one has gone missing, and going through every waking moment worrying about where they could be isn’t easy.

In the every missing persons case, closure is what the family and friends connected to them want and with a help of a new tool, giving the stricken family members and friends closure will be easier to do.

A new website designed to work with the public’s help is hoping to bring some much needed closure to the families of missing persons.

“We have started a website called albertamissingpersons.ca as a new tool for both the public and police to help close missing persons cases,” said Camille Fedoruk, research analyst for Project KARE.

According to kare.ca Project KARE is an investigational unit, created with the highest priority to examine the deaths of several “High Risk Missing Persons” who have been found in the surrounding rural areas of the City of Edmonton. One of the objectives of Project KARE is to investigate all leads, capture and prosecute the person(s) responsible for these crimes.

The new website has been launched with the help of Law Enforcement Agencies and Alberta Medical Examiners to profile the 300 plus missing persons that have been reported in Alberta so that either they will be found alive or their remains can be identified.

“So far I’ve put about 180 of the missing person cases on the website along with seven or eight unidentified human remains cases,” said Fedoruk.

The website contains brief but important verification information about each missing person in hopes that someone out there looking at the site can identify a missing person or unidentified human remains. Each case can contain a photo of the missing person, how long they have been missing for, physical descriptions, where they were last seen, a recent photo, and who to call. Fedoruk along with Cst. Kay Vera and Cst. Roland Mislk were out at the Leduc Scale on June 3 for the Driver Appreciation barbeque to help spread information about the website.

The scale is located on the QEII highway, south of Leduc.

“It takes just one phone call and the trucking industry has such an exposure on the highways.

“A lot of these individuals who go missing lead a high risk lifestyle and that’s why we’re here. Hopefully it might jog someone’s memory,” said Fedoruk.

The website has already had success in British Columbia where a man who had been missing since 2000 was identified through some human remains that someone had seen on the website.

“Just by using one word, like a tattoo, a certain piercing, birthmark or a fracture it makes it easier to identify a person,” said Fedoruk.

“These missing people all have a dad, a mom, a brother and all they want is some sort of closure even if it the worst possible scenario and by launching this website it definitely gives the public and police another tool to help solve these cases,” said Fedoruk.

Anyone who has any information in regards to a missing person is asked to

call the investigating agency for each

missing person that can be found on the newly launched website albertamissingpersons.ca or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.

© 2009 , Sun Media