Dawson Creek RCMP seek public help as city's latest homicide victim identified

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 28, 2025 8:57 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Dawson Creek RCMP are investigating a suspected homicide aft the remains of a 24-year-old pistillate who had been reported missing weeks earlier were found.

Twenty-four-year-old Emily Ogden was reported missing from Fort St. John, astir 74 kilometres northeast of Dawson Creek, connected March 29. 

Her remains were recovered connected April 14 and identified by constabulary connected April 24.

"We would similar to cognize if anyone saw oregon heard from Emily during the clip she was reported missing, until the find of her body," Sgt. Kris Clark said successful a statement.

Ogden was described arsenic a achromatic female, 5 feet 10 inches gangly and 155 pounds with brownish eyes, airy brown/blond hair and a ample honeycomb cervix tattoo.

Her decease marks the latest successful a bid of convulsive incidents successful the assemblage of astir 12,400 radical successful northeast B.C. that include at slightest 2 high-profile shootings, a drive-by successful a residential neighbourhood and different successful a concern country that left one dormant and different injured earlier this year, prompting further constabulary resources to beryllium sent to the area.

Dawson Creek has already been dealing with the fallout of a bid of convulsive incidents going backmost respective years, which were the taxable of a CBC Fifth Estate investigation broadcast past fall. The investigation found that since 2021, 11 people person gone missing oregon been murdered successful the community, a melodramatic summation fixed that just 7 years prior, the metropolis had lone 1 recorded homicide.