http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Crime/2016/10/10/22673448.html
It's been 30 years since Kerrie Ann Brown was viciously murdered and left for dead in a wooded area of Thompson. For Trevor Brown, surviving with the singular goal of one day seeing someone arrested and locked away for the killing, it seems like much longer.
"Three decades, or as I like to tell people: 11,000 nights," Brown said in a recent interview as the 30th anniversary of the tragic night approaches.
Brown left a house party on Oct. 16, 1986 and was not seen again until her body was discovered two days later. She had been sexually assaulted and brutally beaten, less than two months after her 15th birthday.
A man was previously arrested in connection with the slaying but a judge, seeing only circumstantial evidence, never sent it to trial.
Kerrie Ann would have turned 45 on Aug. 19. She was "an amazing human being," Trevor said, "just a beautiful heart, super kind and caring."
Const. Janna Amirault, a 15-year veteran of the RCMP, has been on the Brown file for five years and said Kerrie Ann's murder is a haunting reminder of how quickly and tragically lives can change.
"She was an innocent girl that went to a house party," Amirault said, "and for a couple minutes decided to go by herself and, within that short period of time, something horrible happened to her. What happened to her could have happened to anybody, and that's what's scary about this investigation."
Amirault said seven investigators in her unit, plus support staff, continue to work on the case.
What haunts Amirault is looking at Kerrie Ann's story and seeing a happy-go-lucky teen who didn't lead a high-risk lifestyle and had plenty of supports around her.
"It really hits me that this could have happened to anybody," she said. "It could have been a friend of mine growing up. Heaven forbid something happened like this to one of my daughters or one of their friends, I would want somebody to be invested in solving what happened to them."