Nearly two weeks after the brutal murder of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry in Pacific Spirit Park, women are coming forward with stories about suspicious people loitering in the park -- both before and after the killing.

For the last year, a woman named Sascha has been walking her dog Niko regularly along the park's trails in the UBC Endowment Lands.

Just days before Ladner-Beaudry's murder, Sascha headed out with her dog alone after a friend couldn't make it. It was on that walk, she had an encounter that left her feeling unsettled.

"There was a guy in the woods I'd never seen before. He was kicking sticks, not really walking, looking around," she said. "He had a raincoat on and his hoody up. I felt a bit uneasy and a feeling in my gut it was not quite right."

Unlike other park users who typically greet each other, this man would not make eye contact and wasn't really walking.

"I had a funny feeling. He gave me the creeps," Sascha told CTV News.

After Ladner-Beaudry's body was found, Sascha called the RCMP. They came to interview her the following day about a man she described as having a darker complexion and dark hair.

To date, police say they have no definitive information or details about a suspect.

"There's a lot of hard work happening behind the scenes that we can't share with the public. We are asking them to be patient," said RCMP spokesman Peter Thiessen.

Not knowing what happened to Ladner-Beaudry makes it worse, said Sascha.

"We don't know what happened. We don't know what to look out for...a blunt object? A knife? Was she attacked from behind?" said Sascha.

Local resident Pille Bunnell is helping to organize companion walks in Pacific Spirit Park. She said she could only recall three seriously violent incidents in the last 20 years.

"There's less a sense this is a place where things may happen when you see people all the time," she said.

The companion walks will be offered two to three times a week, and Bunnell hopes they will encourage people to take back the park.

With a report by CTV British Columbia's Leah Hendry.