Police have yet to catch homicide victim Kimberly Proctor’s killer, but say they’re making progress on solving the case.
The 18-year-old high school student’s charred remains were found March 19 on a rock ledge next to Millstream Creek under the Galloping Goose Regional Trail — a place popular with local youth — less than 36 hours after she was last seen at the Station Avenue bus interchange.
But police are keeping information close to their chest as they piece together the evidence.
Lagan refused to talk about suspects police are looking at, and only said they have no one in custody.
The murder has made international news — including a spot on CNN’s sister network, Headline News — partially because of the role social networking sites have played in both spotlighting personal information about Proctor and serving as a sounding board for rumour and speculation.
Proctor had a profile on an online forum called vampirefreaks.com — a website for those who identify with the goth subculture and which has been linked to high-profile murder cases like the Dawson College shooting in Montreal in 2006. Proctor wrote on the site that she has been bullied her whole life for being different and that she was afraid of teenage girls.
That revelation has caused parallels to be drawn to the 1997 slaying of Saanich teen Reena Virk, who was swarmed and beaten by a group of other teenagers before being drowned by Warren Glowatski and Kelly Ellard.
But police say they are not comparing Proctor’s murder to any other cases, and are not saying whether bullying was a factor or whether they are looking at multiple suspects.
Jo-Anne Landolt, Proctor’s aunt who has acted as the family’s spokeswoman, said police are in constant contact with the family and her parents are confident investigators are working hard to solve the case.
“We’re not being impatient. The police are doing their job and … all we want is for the police to find who did this,” she said.
More than 40 investigators from major crime units across the province are following up on hundreds of leads and looking at all aspects of Proctor’s life, including her relationships and online activity.
kderosa@tc.canwest.com
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