Ellie May Meyer - May 6, 2005 - 33 - Murdered - Edmonton - KARE

[Desespere]

Ellie May Meyer
Age 33
COD:
DOB:
Date found: May 6, 2005
Location found: Sherwood Park, AB
Date last seen:
Location last seen: Edmonton, AB
STW   

Ellie May Meyer - May 6, 2005 - Age 33 - Murdered - STW - The body of sex-trade worker Ellie May Meyer, 33, is found near Sherwood Park.

Snippet? sorry I have no link?

Since 1988, 12 sex-trade workers have been discovered dead and dumped in areas around Edmonton.
Project KARE, an RCMP-led task force set up in 2003, is conducting 72 investigations into the death or disappearance of people in the Prairies and Northwest Territories in high-risk lifestyles. Of those cases, 41 are unsolved homicides and 31 missing persons. All but three involve women.
Some 24 of these Project KARE investigations are in the greater Edmonton area.
RCMP spokesman Cpl. Wayne Oakes declined to say if there are any suspects or if this is the work of a serial killer.
 ?Which is more scary? One person, a handful, or 41? It is horrible, gruesome, scary, no matter how you portray it,? he says.
Some of the victims simply vanished from the 118th Avenue stroll where they worked. All are identified as high risk ? defined through profession, lifestyle or circumstances that make them vulnerable to violent crime.
Beyond that there are no other defining similarities. They were different races, ages and appearances.

another snippet....

The latest victim, Ellie May Meyer, 33, was the second Edmonton prostitute to turn up dead in less than three weeks. On April 16, an oil field worker stumbled upon the burned body of Charlene Gauld, 20, near an oil well about 60 km southeast of Edmonton. Both women were well-known to police and had, in fact, registered with Project Kare, an Alberta-wide, RCMP-led task force which is currently investigating 41 deaths and 31 disappearances of people engaged in "high risk" lifestyles such as prostitution and drug use. Founded in October 2003, Project Kare followed on the heels of the alarming case of Robert Pickton, the British Columbia pig farmer now facing 15 murder charges related to the disappearance of 69 women from Vancouver's seedy Downtown Eastside. "It was decided," says Cpl. Wayne Oakes, an Edmonton-based spokesman for the RCMP, "that we had to take a look at what's happening in our own backyard."

[Desespere]

http://www.lastlinkontheleft.com/e2005meyer.html

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.
(Ellie was not seen since about April 6, 2005 but the police say her body had been in the field for less than two weeks. I've put the date of her death at April 22, 2005.)

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.

[Chris]

So how can there be a 2 week gap between when she was last seen and likely dumped there. Is it possible no one could have seen her in that time frame? Otherwise, it seems she may be kept somewhere?

[Carol-Lynn]

I am starting to feel there is someone offering the ladys jobs to get out of the sex trade and or held aganst there will some kind of cleaning company or someone who buys old homes to do reno's and then flip them for cash.Slum land lords again.
If we think about this the girl could be held for days and days working for these people and no one would think it was wrong,It would be a case of the poor girl only wanted out of the sex trade "Again"

Then you look at most cases most of the girls were in rehab or was getting out of the trade.

[Chris]

Or it could also just be that someone lures them to there place and just keeps em locked up like that guy in St Louis.

If that is the case, he needs to be found soon. These kind of animals are the worst kind.

[kindheart]

Hi, everyone. I am looking for information as to the last place Ellie Meyer was seen. If anyone has a link or remembers, let me know.

[Adrian]

I think that Ellie May Myers, was said to work 118/95,96 st.She didn't just hang out there, as I have seen her for years, and always, looked preppy on the ball, and took licenses, and was very aware, of was happening.

I think, she probably knew, or was acquaintances, who took her for her last ride.

[kindheart]

Thanks Adrian    It is quite the crowd being stolen from 95 & 118!! Seems Ellie was right "all the girls will be there" and at Remand

"Police said the body had decomposed but was clothed and had not been burned". I think from this statement made by Project Kare your thoughts that she knew the person who killed her could be quite accurate. I think he was one of Ellie's long time associates from around the scene and possibly even a regular John for her.

[Carol-Lynn]

?We all got a thing for something,? Meyer said. ?Someone?s a gambler,
      someone?s a cracker. I?ve had a few jobs, but I just seem to get ripped
      off every time I get a real job.?
      Her only hope of ever leaving the streets, she believed, was to find a
      husband.
      ?You gotta be set up. Rent, food, you need something, even a room, and
      build for the future. I can?t go stay with a trick, I?m not staying with
      hooker prevention, which is a joke.
      ?I just hope God will help me somehow. He sends messengers. Maybe I?ll
      find a honey.?
      And Meyer spoke of one of the last times she spoke to Quinney, whose
      corpse had been found just a week earlier. She knew the 19-year-old as
      Candace.
      They were pregnant at the same time, Meyer said.
      ?A little while ago, I told Candace - we were waiting for a drug deal - I
      told Candace, heaven is like the Remand. All the girls will be there.?
      She said she always worried about Quinney, because she wasn?t street-wise.
      Meyer, who talked to the Sun as she worked the 118 Avenue stroll near 92
      Street, said she knew other streetwalkers found dead outside the city,
      too.

[Adrian]

I always, saw Ellie at the downtown warzone area. That is around 95th, street, and any where from any avenue. She used a phone at times near the York, near the downtown area. She was quiet, polite, and I thought her to be a college gal.She never looked for trouble, and was always pleasant.

I really think she knew her killer, as I heard, she was on her toes, about the sk, and took precautions.Who was before and after her death? If she knew them, may be she knew the killer, but didn't recognize him as such.

[kindheart]

I will mark her on my map as being last seen at 118 ave & 95th street. Thanks Adrian, i appreciate the information.
~kindheart

Arrest prompts fears
May 17 2006

Hope that her daughter's killer might finally be brought to justice is flickering in the heart of an Edmonton mom, following the arrest of a suspect in the slaying of another prostitute. Evanelina Meyer can't help but wonder whether the arrest is a break in the case of the serial killer that police believe is preying on city prostitutes. "It does give me some hope, maybe we can finally lay our daughter to rest. She deserves that." said Meyer in an e-mail to the Sun yesterday. Hope that her daughter's killer might finally be brought to justice is flickering in the heart of an Edmonton mom, following the arrest of a suspect in the slaying of another prostitute.Evanelina Meyer can't help but wonder whether the arrest is a break in the case of the serial killer that police believe is preying on city prostitutes.

"It does give me some hope, maybe we can finally lay our daughter to rest. She deserves that." said Meyer in an e-mail to the Sun yesterday.Thomas George Svekla, 38, is charged with second-degree murder and interfering with a dead body in the death of Theresa Innes, 36, who worked in the sex trade in High Level. Innes's body was found in a Fort Saskatchewan home May 7 by police responding to a tip. Police allege she was killed in High Level and her body was taken 700 km to Fort Saskatchewan in a hockey bag.Innes's body was found one year and one day after the body of Meyer's 33-year-old daughter Ellie-May Meyer was found dumped in a farmer's field in Strathcona County.

Ellie-May was a friend of Rachel Quinney, whose body was found in June 2004 just a few kilometres from where Ellie-May would be found 11 months later. Mounties initially stressed that Svekla had been arrested in connection only with the Innes case. But speculation exploded after Sun columnist Andrew Hanon revealed Svekla told him in late 2004 that he was a person of interest in Quinney's killing.Svekla told Hanon that he discovered Quinney's body when he took another prostitute to the rural spot to do drugs.

Evanelina Meyer said she's "sickened" that another woman - Innes - has been murdered. "It brought back everything that we had been through, one year ago nearly to the same date," she said. "Since this man (Svekla) was arrested I and my family have mourned for our daughter and the Innes family. I would like to extend my condolences to them." Alberta RCMP spokesman Cpl. Wayne Oakes offered no updates on the Svekla case yesterday.Meyer said the police haven't provided her with any recent updates either.

[kindheart]

http://crystalmeyer.info/?p=7     

Words from the Sister of Ellie May Meyer

[serialbuster]

Again, has there been any new updates?  Cause of death released?  Thanks,

-Buster

[Chris]

Nope, the police are very tight lipped about this stuff. Hold back evidence i soppose.

[Desespere]

Serialbuster,
There is a lot of information on this forum regarding each case, just go through them and pretty much whatever is here is about all that's available on the net. Archived newspaper articles are about the last thing to look at. This is particularly true for Alberta.

The police of Edmonton and Kare (RCMP) have not and will not release any more information than they have. Well, they might but they haven't yet so unlikely. I don't expect any information from Kare to be released.

Year marker dates of women's death or disappearance may net new articles and this happens occassionally and we get more info from those. I'm just telling you this because you can choose to replicate the work already done, or simply collect from here. There are thousands of hours put into this site to date. And hundreds upon hundreds of hours of research. I would prefer my posts, other than posts made with information from other sites, not to be replicated anywhere. I only write for Chris' board.

What are you doing with the information Serialbuster? Please make sure if you take opinions or research from other posters that you give credit because