Laura Lee Cross
Age: 33
COD:
DOB: 1968/03/18
Date found: October 14, 2002
Location found: Halifax, NS
Date last seen: July 12, 2001
Location last seen: Dartmouth, NS

Laura Lee Cross - July 12, 2001 ? Age 33 ? Murdered ? Dartmouth - The Government of the Province of Nova Scotia is offering a reward in the amount of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the death of Laura Lee Cross.
On October 14, 2002, at approximately 5:30 pm, police responded to a report of two hunters who discovered human skeletal remains off a logging road near Dollar Lake Provincial Park, located on the Old Guysborough Road near the Halifax International Airport. The skeletal remains were later identified as those of the victim, Laura Lee Cross.
The investigation revealed that the Ms. Cross had last been seen on July 12, 2001, and she had been reported missing in August of 2001. Ms. Cross had been living at 18 Middle Street, in Dartmouth, at the time of her disappearance.
Any person with information regarding the person(s) responsible for the death of Laura Lee Cross should call the Rewards for Major Unsolved Crimes Program at 1-888-710-9090.
The reward is payable in Canadian funds and will be apportioned as deemed just by the Minister of Justice for the Province of Nova Scotia. Employees of law enforcement and correctional agencies are not eligible to collect this reward. The reward expires January 31, 2008.
http://www.gov.ns.ca/just/divisions/polvs/rewards/LauraLeeCross.asp
http://www.halifax.ca/Police/UnsolvedMurders/murderinfo.asp?VictimID=135

need more police here in Nova Scotia, especially in the Halifax area

They should take the 1 billion for gun registry and spend it on getting 100 or so investigators in Canada to spend all there time looking into unsolved murders and missing people. Nothing like boots on the ground to solve cases right.

I agree Chris, if they don't get the information in the first days of the crime, what chance is there. I mean someone has to know something about these crimes.  There should be a special investigative unit for such crimes, versed in how to handle the situation. They miss a lot at the initial site, I think.  More officers well trained in cases like this couldn't hurt, that's for sure.   

Especially these days when criminals seem to know how the police oeprate. These investigators are so over worked, it is hard to balance all that work.

How many psychoes are we looking at

It is unnerving to think about. It seems they feel emboldened these days. Like they can get away with it.

I am sorry about your friend, this must have been heartbreaking.

It must have been a very frustrating process, it is really too bad things move so slow. It makes me mad resources for missing people and murders are so low.

Do you know by chance if there is a POI? It would seem whomever did this knew her and probably was hoping no one would find her ever.

Thanks for sharing

It still makes you wonder though if it is just rumours there, because a reward of this kind sometimes will help solve the crime. I think that ATV should be doing an hour special on the persons that are missing and murdered in Halifax and the rewards and such that are offered. As time goes by people just go about their everyday activity and forget about these cases, because there are new ones in the news. I believe more media coverage would help for some new tips. 

I am from Nova Scotia and I know a half a dozen of the people who are unsolved and they were either drug addicts, or dealers. We need to get serious about the major drug problem in this country. I guarantee 90% are drug related. We need HARSH sentences for drug dealers and addicts, if it means saving there lives. Our country is in dire straights right now and our government needs to man up and take care of it. Not to mention all the deaths from overdoses. We don't hear about them because they are self inflicted and "solved" but are they really? I think not!

just consulted a map and Middle Street in Dartmouth is just down the road from the Tim Horton's where Carla Stickland was allegedly dropped off.  It is a small small world.  Not much information on poor Laura, and no matter what her lifestyle she deserves justice.  Also the highway to the airport, where her body was found,  is not far from Laura's home and the Tim Horton's.