CANADIAN COLD CASES

The Hemlock Valley Murders

Within two months in 1995, three women’s bodies were found within the same remote bush of British Columbia’s Fraser Valley. All three were determined to be victims of homicide, and the cause of death and murder characteristics were similar enough that law enforcement believe they were all murdered by the same killer. The serial killer, however, has never been found.

The Victims

Tracy Olajide
Body found August 12, 1995

Tracy Olajide, 30, was last seen on August 10, 1995, near the Waldorf Hotel in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. She was the mother of one child who had stopped working in the sex trade, but still struggled with a crack cocaine addiction that continued to lure her back into the seedy streets of Downtown Eastside to score.

Olajide’s nude body was found on Saturday, August 12th, 1995, on a trail near Morris Valley logging road, in the Agassiz area of British Columbia. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death.

Tammy Pipe
Body found September 2, 1995

Two weeks later, on September 2, 1995, the nude body of 24 year-old Tammy Pipe was discovered on a side road north of Lougheed Highway #7. The side road led to a hang-gliding launch on Mount Woodside.

Pipe was also addicted to drugs and worked in the sex trade to support her habit. Before that, she had worked as an interpretive dancer, then an exotic dancer.

Pipe was last seen at the Cobalt Hotel on Main Street in Vancouver on August 29th, 1995.

Victoria Younker
Body found October 21, 1995

Victor Younker’s nude and partially-decomposed body was found north of Lougheed Highway #7, on Sylvester Rd, near Mission, BC. She was rolled 25 ft. down an embankment on a dead end logging road.

Forensics determined she had been dead for at least 30 days before her body was discovered.

Younkers’ drug addiction also led her to a life of petty crime and sex trade work in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. She was regularly seen in the area of Main St. and Victoria Dr.

She was last seen on Monday, September 11th, 1995, at social assistance offices on Hastings St. She did not return to pick up her cheque which was ready for her on September 25., 1995.