Nearly a year after the unsolved murder of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry, Mounties have posted a YouTube video that they hope will drum up new leads in their investigation.
Ladner-Beaudry, sister of former Vancouver city councillor Peter Ladner, was killed last April 3 at around 2:45 p.m. while running on a trail in Pacific Spirit Park.
On Wednesday morning, Cpl. Dale Carr of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team met with reporters near the trail's Marine Drive entrance.
"We're here because of Wendy," Carr said. "She was attacked and brutally murdered at this very spot."
Police received more than 250 tips in the weeks after Ladner-Beaudry's death, Carr said, but have yet to identify a suspect.
In an effort to generate more tips, and to jog the public's memory of the crime, police posted a 2-minute 54-second YouTube video outlining details of the murder and featuring an interview with Peter Ladner.
"Wendy was always the glue in the family," he says in the clip. "Everybody got along with her."
Investigators have also consulted a crime analyst who helped find 270 persons of interest using a suspect profile.
Eighty of them lived within 10 kilometres of the crime scene last April, and police have spent months locating them one by one.
"These individuals are not easy to track down. It's a great deal of extra work that we are throwing in to the investigation," said Carr.
Anyone with information relevant to the investigation is asked to call IHIT at 1-877-551-4448 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8177.
