deadmonton 2005 - charlene gauld

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Charlene Gauld, 20, was found dead April 16th, 2005.


Case status is open and active.



Over the past decade, areas surrounding Edmonton have become a virtual dumping ground for the bodies of women engaged in what law enforcement officials have termed a "high risk lifestyle."


Late in 2003, the RCMP formed Project KARE to investigate the murders and disappearances of nearly 80 women in the prairie provinces.


In mid-April, 2005 one more name was added to their mandate.


Charlene Gauld

An oil worker performing a routine check on a service site came across the body of Charlene Gauld.


Her body, and the surrounding wooded area close to the intersection of Highway 617 and Highway 623 (north of the city of Camrose, a one-hour drive southeast of Edmonton), had been burned.


Gauld, who worked under the street name Roxanne, was last seen alive on April 8th, 2005 and was reported missing April 13th.


She had registered with Project KARE in February of 2004 and worked in the areas along 95th street in Edmonton's downtown core.


Gauld was found in the area where the body of another Edmonton prostitute, Debbie Lake, was discovered on April 12th, 2003.


Police said there was no clear link between the two women. The RCMP didn't release a cause of death, but were treating Gauld's death as suspicious while the medical examiner performed further tests.


Gauld had been good friends with Samantha Berg, a sex-trade worker whose partially clad body was found in an Edmonton industrial area parking lot January, 2005.


Gauld was also a friend of Rachel Quinney, whose body was found in a wooded area near the intersection of Township Road 540 and Range Road 224, northeast of Sherwood Park on June 11th, 2004.