Edmonton police plead for information after remains identified as missing woman

Wallis Snowdon · CBC News

· Posted: May 29, 2025 2:32 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

Human remains recovered connected the outskirts of Edmonton this wintertime person been identified arsenic a 25-year-old pistillate who disappeared from the metropolis past spring. 

In a connection Thursday, constabulary said the circumstances of Teanna Lacoursiere's decease are suspicious and they are appealing to the nationalist for caller accusation connected the last days of her life.

Lacoursiere had been reported missing successful April 2024. 

Police said Lacoursiere's remains were recovered successful January, successful a wooded country adjacent Aurum Road and 17th Street, connected the east of the metropolis adjacent the stream valley. 

In April 2025, a twelvemonth aft her disappearance, a lucifer from the National DNA Data Bank identified Lacoursiere arsenic the deceased.

An autopsy was completed connected the partial remains successful precocious January but the origin and mode of her decease has yet to beryllium determined.

'Particularly complex'

At the clip the remains were found, heavy snowfall and hard wintertime conditions prevented a afloat hunt of the surrounding area.

Police returned this outpouring to proceed the hunt for evidence. 

Throughout April and May, EPS Missing Persons Unit co-ordinated aggregate searches successful the country wherever the remains were found, constabulary said.

On May 26, with the assistance of Search and Rescue Alberta, a afloat grid hunt of the country was completed, constabulary said.

"The hunt country was ample and forested, which made this peculiarly complex," Staff Sgt. Kevin Harrison, with the EPS Historical Crimes Section, said successful a statement. 

"Investigators planned to implicit a afloat grid hunt anterior to issuing a nationalist notification successful hopes of gathering important grounds that would beforehand the investigation." 

With that grid hunt complete, constabulary said investigators are present appealing to the nationalist for immoderate accusation that mightiness assistance shed immoderate airy connected the case, and however Lacoursiere's remains ended up successful the forest.

Anyone with accusation astir Lacoursiere, peculiarly successful the days starring up to her death, is asked to interaction Edmonton constabulary oregon Crime Stoppers. 

Lacoursiere was five feet 1 inches tall, 120 pounds, with bluish eyes and brownish hair. She had a tattoo crossed her thorax and was known to alteration her hairsbreadth colour. 

She was besides known to spell by the sanction "Mistey."