Irene Jacknife, left, and Louise Laderoute, right, died in the mid-1970s. Police were unable to identify their remains until now.
The two cases were the first to be examined under Project Match, a joint effort launched last year between Edmonton police, the RCMP and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to review historical unidentified human remains investigations. Edmonton's police chief, Indigenous leaders and an elder offered condolences Friday to the families of two Indigenous women who were buried anonymously in Edmonton cemeteries nearly half a century ago.
Unsolved cases leave families grieving and traumatized for years, Det. Kevin Harrison, with the EPS historical crimes unit, said in a statement. On June 11, 1976, an unidentified woman died outside an Edmonton address. An autopsy determined the death was due to medical causes. It was not deemed suspicious.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and an external forensic anthropologist then reviewed the initial autopsy reports, re-examined the remains and collected samples containing DNA. The samples were sent for forensic testing, DNA extraction and comparison analysis. Identifying Jacknife and Laderoute is worth celebrating, as many missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls have not been found, said Josie Nepinak, president of the Edmonton-based Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women."These gatherings and these collaborations … bring us closer to solving many of those issues that continue to place Indigenous women in very vulnerable positions.
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