deadmonton 2005 - ellie-may meyer
Ellie-May Meyer, 33, was found dead May 6th, 2005.
Case status is open and active.
Late in the evening of May 6th, 2005 a farmer tilling fields east of Edmonton discovered a female body that appeared to have been dumped, part of a pattern that has become all too familiar to area cops.
Police said the body had decomposed but was clothed and had not been burned.
Project KARE, an RCMP-led task force investigating the deaths of women involved in "high-risk lifestyles," was called in.
A week after the discovery, police identified the body as that of Ellie-May Meyer, a sex-trade worker that had not been seen for a month. While withholding cause, police labelled her death a murder.
Meyer was the seventh slain sex-trade worker to be found on the city's outskirts since 2002. She had registered with Project KARE in 2003 but was not reported missing. Police estimated she had been in the field where she was found for less than two weeks.
In the summer of 2004, Meyer was interviewed by a local newspaper in connection with the deaths of Rachel Quinney, 19, Monique Pitre, 30, and Melissa Munch, 23.
Quinney's body was found June 11, 2004, and Pitre and Munch were found a few days apart in January 2003.
Ironically, Meyer's body was found within just a few kilometres of the three, all in an area northeast of Sherwood Park.