It has been five years since the body of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry was found near a popular trail in Pacific Spirit Park in Vancouver.
Despite hundreds of tips about her death, there have been no arrests made in the killing of the 53-year-old mother of two.
“Today there still are no suspects in this investigation,” says Integrated Homicide Investigation Team spokesperson Jennifer Pound. “I can tell you that a motive has yet to be identified. Wendy was a devoted woman and the reality of this stranger on stranger murder has had an impact on everyone.”
Pound says the file will be transitioned over to the Major Crimes Special Projects Unit.
“There are a high number of persons of interest in this investigation that we are still looking to identify and that we need to talk to,” she says. “A high number of those individuals are transient. We have yet to locate them. The problem is when we do locate them, some of them are not cooperative with the police.”
Investigators believe the murder happened between noon and 3 p.m. on April 3, 2009. News of Ladner-Beaudry’s death sent shock waves through the community, and since that day many people have said they no longer jog alone in that area or they have taken extra safety precautions.
More than 500 people have been interviewed in connection with her death, yet how she died remains a mystery. Ladner-Beaudry’s husband has been cleared as a suspect.
Ladner-Beaudry’s brother Peter says they are reminding people that the crime is still unsolved and they are hoping someone will come forward with information that will help to apprehend the murderer.
“It opens up a hole in our lives that stares back at us every day,” he says. “Someone else made a decision to end her life, someone felt they could brutally take her life, without the slightest idea of how that senseless act would destroy the peace and calm that Wendy did so much to create around us all.”
Ladner-Beaudry would have turned 58 last Sunday.
“The family wants closure, but we also want to make sure that no one else has to go through the pain and disruption that we have suffered,” says Ladner.
Anyone who has any information is asked to call the new IHIT Tipline number at 778-290-5291 or email at ihittipline@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.
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