CIRCUMSTANCES

Tracy Olajide is one of three unsolved murders referred to as The Hemlock Valley Murders. Tracy, Tammy Pipe and Victoria Younker were all sexually assaulted, killed by strangulation and their bodies were left in a similar fashion in remote areas of Fraser Valley in 1995.

Tracy was last seen on August 10, 1995, in the area of the Waldorf Hotel in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. She was a drug addict and sex trade worker, but had reportedly stopped working the streets. She continued to buy drugs in the area.

On Saturday, August 12, 1995, her nude body was found on a trail near Morris Valley logging road, near Agassiz, British Columbia. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled. Three weeks later, the body of Tammy Pipe was discovered less than five miles from Tracy. All three women’s bodies were found within two months of each other.

Tracy was a mother to one child.

FACTS & SPECULATION

• Detectives theorized the killer lived in the area, or knew the area as a logger, fisherman, hunter or through the nearby work release program.
• The killer’s red 4×4 vehicle was scratched or damaged while going off-road to dump the bodies.
• The killer probably wrapped the victims’ bodies in some type of weathered yellow rain gear.
• RCMP had a prime suspect, a local roofer with a history of rapes but DNA tests cleared him.
• Robert “Willy” Pickton was ruled out as the killer through DNA.
• These serial killings may include that of Mary Lidguerre, who disappeared in 1995. Her skeletal remains were found in 1997 in a wooded area in North Vancouver.

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