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Article: Missing women: no body, no investigation.
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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It only took a couple of days for Danielle Boudreau and Bekkie Fugate to find Teri-lynn House once they started looking in early August.
House had been reported missing to the RCMP detachment in Devon, a small community just outside Edmonton, more than a month previously. Her mother, Melanie House, was concerned that her daughter, who has been fighting an addiction, had run away to Edmonton and ended up on the streets. Teri-lynn was eventually found safe in Cranbrook, B.C., but, given the fate of many other missing Native women, her safety was never a sure thing.
Boudreau, a 30-year-old Native woman who has beaten a cocaine addiction, became known to ...