Missing Sex Trade Workers
$100,000 Reward Offered
Dateline: 08/01/99
The Ministry of the Attorney General and
the Vancouver Police Department have authorized a reward of up to $100,000
(Canadian) for information leading to the arrest and conviction for the person
or persons responsible for the unlawful confinement, kidnapping or murder of at
least 30 women missing from the streets of Vancouver.
It began in the early 1980's. Prostitutes
disappeared, one-by-one from a four block radius of Vancouver's East Side. An
area known for prostitution and the drug trade, the women have vanished. There
is no crime scene, no bodies and few clues.
Police would like to speak with an
anonymous caller who responded to a toll free hotline in July, 1998. In the
recording the caller warns police and friends to stop searching because,
"Sarah (one of the victims) is dead." The caller stated that a
prostitute would be killed "one every Friday night." Police note that
the call could have been a hoax. There is nothing to substantiate the Friday
night claim. Lower East Side residents and prostitutes are also on the lookout
for a brown van, seen lurking in the area on weekends. They believe the driver
of the van may hold clues to the unsolved disappearances.
If you have information which you feel
might help in this case you may report it to the Vancouver Police, Missing
Persons Unit at:
604-717-3415
(Local)
1-800-993-8799 (North
America)
669-TIPS (Local
Anonymous)
Further Information
Pictures
of Missing Women
Missing
Women Poster - Requires Adobe
Acrobat
Vancouver
Cops Consult U.S. Serial Killers Investigators
Two
More Vancouver Prostitutes Missing
Prostitute's
Body Found in North Van
Fifth
Body Linked to Serial Killer
Missing
on the Mean Streets: Part One / The
Search for Sarah The
Search for Sarah -
Sarah deVries
Missing
on the Mean Streets: Part Two - Tragic portraits of the missing women.
Jailed
Rapist Suspect in Murders Disappears
Green
River Killer - 49th body found in 1984, could there be a
connection?
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