http://edmontonjournal.com/news/loc...-sisters-push-for-answers-three-decades-later
Oct 29 2017
Oct 29 2017
Thirty-four years after Delaine Goudriaans body was discovered in a field across the freeway from Edmontons maximum security prison, Deirdre Goudriaan and another sister are redoubling efforts to figure out who killed her.
Delaine Goudriaans life was cut short at age 13 when she was killed after going missing on July 14, 1983. She had lived in the city for just 10 months.
Her badly decomposed body was discovered fully clothed, hidden beneath a large signboard in a field along Manning Drive, across from Edmonton Institution, on Aug. 16, 1983.
The death was ruled a homicide but investigators soon hit a wall. A cause of death could not be determined due to the state of the body, according to a police report on the case, and the amount of physical evidence was limited due to decomposition. An RCMP lab examined the girls clothing but found no unusual damage.
Deirdre Goudriaan and her other sister, Deanne Souvie, remember Delaine Goudriaan as an independent girl with a sharp sense of humour who liked telling stories and got up early each weekday to deliver the Edmonton Sun. She was the youngest of four siblings.
On the phone from her home in White Rock, B.C., Deirdre Goudriaan said she last saw her sister on a trip between Hinton and Edmonton a few weeks before she went missing. The family had moved to Edmonton from Hinton the year before.