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On a bright spring afternoon in 2009, 53-year-old Wendy Ladner-Beaudry went for a run in Pacific Spirit Park — a route she’d taken for decades — and never came home. What happened in those silent minutes beneath the trees remains one of Vancouver’s most haunting unsolved murders.

🔗 Source List 

Vancouver Magazine – “A Pacific Spirit Murder” (long-form profile)
https://www.vanmag.com/city/general/a-pacific-spirit-murder/
Frances Bula – “The Life and Death of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry”
https://francesbula.com/uncategorized/the-life-and-death-of-wendy-ladner-beaudry/
CityNews Vancouver – Anniversary Coverage & Case Summaries
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/04/03/vancouver-murder-wendy-ladner-beaudry-unsolved/
CityNews Vancouver – Reward Renewed in Unsolved Murder
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2019/04/03/reward-renewed-wendy-ladner-beaudry/
Global News – 10-Year Anniversary Appeal
https://globalnews.ca/news/5125477/wendy-ladner-beaudry-murder-anniversary/
Global News – 4-Year Anniversary Article (2013)
https://globalnews.ca/news/454079/who-killed-wendy-ladner-beaudry/
RCMP E-Division – 12-Year Anniversary Release (Google Groups archive)
https://groups.google.com/g/bc.rcmp.news/c/G6D8iH9lXHE
BC Local News – Unsolved B.C. Homicides Overview
https://www.bclocalnews.com/news/unsolved-b-c-homicides-continue-to-haunt-families/
Vancouver Sun – Early Reporting & Family Statements
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/reward-renewed-in-death-of-wendy-ladner-beaudry
Wikipedia – Community of Ladner (background context)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladner,_British_Columbia
Wikipedia – Shaughnessy, Vancouver (background context)

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