deadmonton 2006 - other police matters - christopher quinney
At 6:20 a.m. on March 21st, 2006 an employee opening up the Koch Ford Lincoln Sales dealership at 5121 Gateway Boulevard spotted a lifeless body inside the locked vehicle compound.
Police were called and the first officers arriving notified homicide detectives after they spotted blood on the ground.
Reports from the scene suggested the body was not there when the dealership closed the previous night.
After an examination of the body police ruled the man's death was non-criminal, suggesting natural causes or death at the man's own hand. A police spokesman said they hoped an autopsy would determine the cause of the man's death.
Police later announced the dead man was Christopher Quinney, age 44.
Family said Quinney was a structural steel engineer who worked at sites across Alberta. He was slated to go to Fort McMurray two days before he died.
A resident of the Saddle Lake reserve, Quinney battled alcoholism but was known not to use drugs. He had a 20-year-old daughter and a two-year-old grandson.
Christopher Quinney was a distant relative of Rachel Quinney (left).
Rachel Quinney's body was found in a wooded area near the intersection of Township Road 540 and Range Road 224, northeast of Sherwood Park on June 11, 2004. She was 19.
Her murder remains unsolved and is being investigated by Project KARE, a multi-jurisdiction investigation into the murders and disappearance of persons involved in "high-risk" lifestyles in western Canada.
Thomas George Svekla, charged with the death of sex-trade worker Theresa Merrie Innes, claims he found Rachel Quinney's body.
Determing the exact cause of Christopher Quinney's death will require additional testing by the medical examiner's office.