CANADA Canada - Brianna Torvalson, 21, Strathcona County, AB, 21 Feb 2008

[h=2]Murdered victim remembered as a 'beautiful girl'[/h][h=1]Soul sent spiralling[/h]
The latest sex-trade worker to be slain and discarded on the outskirts of Edmonton is being remembered as a beautiful girl who lost her way after falling into drugs.

Brianna Torvalson, 21, was found murdered in a Strathcona County driveway on Thursday, after working as a prostitute for two years to fuel her drug addiction.

Requesting privacy, her family released a statement yesterday:

"Brianna Torvalson's family would like the public to know that she was NOT a discarded, forgotten street person but rather a loving, caring, beautiful, irreplaceable soul."

Torvalson spent a lot of time around the Fort Road area near the Transit Hotel where many around there knew the 21-year-old, including bar patron Cory Vanderbilt.

"I knew her since about two years ago when she was a beautiful young girl. Then she met the wrong people and fell into bad habits and when I saw her last week she looked about 90 years old," Vanderbilt told Metro outside of the Transit Hotel.

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The body of 21-year-old Brianna Torvalson was found near a private acreage in Strathcona County Thursday. ((RCMP))

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Fierce

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Unfortunately I went to high school with a murdered prostitute in Edmonton, her name was Brianna Danial Tolverson. I have been unable to find any information on her specific murder can someone help?
There were rumours that a pimp or gangster named Jerome was involved but people can't if him due to that being his "street" name at the time of her death she had a drug problem and was known for jumping johns for money and not having sex with them.
she also had a new born baby boy at the time of death.
Please websleuthers help me find info on my friend
she was found in strathcona county..
in 2008 I believe
anyone have any info????
TIA​

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118th Avenue and the neighbourhoods that surround it are home to much of Edmonton’s street-sex trade. After the remains of many women turned up in rural areas beyond the city limits, the vulnerability of the women working on the Avenue became a focal point of Project KARE.

Amber Bracken for The Globe and Mail
[h=1]THE MONSTERS IN THEIR MIDST[/h] As the government launches an inquiry into violence against indigenous women, Matthew McClearn explores the challenges faced by a team of police investigators as they worked to solve a series of murders in the forests and fields outside Edmonton

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Murder of any kind is a profound tragedy for the friends and family of the victim, but for police, serial homicides present a particular challenge. Failing to respond appropriately to a series of related murders typically attracts public scorn, and is often followed by withering public inquiries.

Yet, linking cases in real time is no simple task. Commonalities such as how victims were selected and where their remains were discovered may reveal patterns in offenders’ motivations and behaviour, but serial killers do not always behave consistently. And when victims’ disappearances remain undetected for weeks, police begin their investigations at a significant disadvantage.

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Jan. 2003 -- The body of Melissa Munch is found in a rural area of Strathcona County. The 20-year-old worked as a prostitute and was known to steal from her johns. She was last seen between Jan. 6 and Jan. 10, 2003, at the Shoppers Drug Mart at 118 Avenue and 95 Street.

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• Jan. 2003 -- The body of Monique Pitre is found in a field in Strathcona County at Township Road 540 and Range Road 222. She had disappeared on Nov. 25, 2002, after getting a ride from a roommate to the Transit Hotel at Fort Road and 66 Street.

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