Nanaimo Daily News - Oct 12, 2006

Summary

The Missing Women's Task Force came to Nanaimo from Vancouver's downtown east side to investigate the unsolved murders of 17 women — however Lisa's case was excluded — because she was "not a sex-trade worker".

Nanaimo Daily News: Thu Oct 12, 2006 Missing Women's task Force comes to Vancouver Island

source: https://newspapers.com/article/149563836/
archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240619092158/https://newspapers.com/article/149563836/
clip: https://lisamarieyoung.ca/n/ndn20061012

[Reproduced under Copyright Act (Canada) s.29.2 - Fair Dealing for the purpose of news reporting]

Missing Women's Task Force comes to Vancouver Island

The Missing Women's Task Force, looking into women who disappeared from Vancouver's downtown east side, will be on Vancouver Island, but there is no evidence of possible Nanaimo victims.

Seventeen Island women are now believed to be missing.

Staff Sgt. Randy Munro, head of the Nanaimo RCMP serious crimes section, said he is unaware of any unsolved cases or victims from Nanaimo that may be linked with the task force investigation.

"One outstanding missing person's case in this city, that of Lisa Marie Young, does not fit the time frame of the task force investigation," he said. "Young was not a sex-trade worker."

The task force began in April 2001, looking a common thread among sex-trade workers missing from the downtown east side.