Police are looking for help in solving the death of a woman in a Vancouver-area park -- the second time a woman has been killed in a regional park in less than two months.
The woman's body was found early Tuesday morning in West Vancouver's Lighthouse Park, an area popular with hikers and rock climbers and overlooking Vancouver's English Bay.
Cpl. Fred Harding of the West Vancouver police said investigators would like to speak to anyone who was in the park over the weekend and saw anything or anyone suspicious.
He said the victim appeared to be living in the park. Police wouldn't release her age or her racial origin or her cause of death.
"(Investigators) believe they know the identification of the woman but because the process is extremely slow, I can't say for certain that she has been identified," Harding said.
On April 3, police in Vancouver were called to Pacific Spirit Park near the University of B.C. after the body of Wendy Ladner-Beudry was discovered.
Ladner-Beaudry, 53, was a prominent sport and community activist in Vancouver. Police have not ruled out the possibility her death was the result of a random attack.
Harding said he'd be surprised if investigators hadn't contacted RCMP to check if there were similarities between the two cases.
Harding said someone walking in Lighthouse Park at 3 a.m. Tuesday found the woman. Police have made contact with the caller, he said.
"The one thing investigators would really like to get out there to anybody who was in the park over the weekend who saw anything suspicious, saw any suspicious activity, or saw any suspicious people, if they could phone the Vancouver Police Department's tip line," Harding said at a news conference.
Homicide officers from the Vancouver police are helping West Vancouver police in the investigation.
