Murder charge laid in Dana Turner case

Seven months after Dana Turner disappeared, a murder charge has been laid in connection to her death.

25 year-old Mark Lindsay of Edmonton was arrested Thursday in the North Fraser Pretrial Center in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. He has been charged with second degree murder, indignity to a body and obstruction of justice; and is now being brought back to Alberta to answer to the charges.

Lindsay is the son of a former Edmonton police chief and was reportedly Turner’s ex-boyfriend.

The two allegedly met at Alberta Hospital, where both were patients at one point.

The 31 year-old mother of three, from Fort Saskatchewan, was last seen in the Edmonton area on Aug. 14, 2011 leaving a west-end hotel in a rental car with an unknown man.

Her body was found October 9, about 10 kilometres west of Innisfail.

Turner’s mother, Wendy Yurko, says the fact charges have been laid is a bit of a relief but not much. 

“My daughter is never coming home, how can you have relief when you’ve lost such a precious part of your family, that my grandsons do not have their mom.” 

She says her daughter had a heart of gold and was the kindest person on the planet, adding that she is a changed woman since losing her daughter.

“There is no fixing this. No amount of jail time, no death sentence, no anything would ever bring my baby back.”

Thursday’s arrest comes after an in-depth investigation involving a number of police, RCMP, and forensics units from across the province.

RCMP say the investigation is still continuing, though. If anyone has information about Dana Turner’s murder, they are asked to call the Fort Saskatchewan RCMP at 780-992-6100 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).