NOT ALL of the northwest’s unsolved murders or missing persons cases have been native women. Terrace’s most recent missing person is Larry Vu, an employee of the Terrace Inn, who was last seen leaving a friend’s home at 9 a.m, on Feb. 24, 1998, ‘. The 28-year-old’s 1985 Gold Dodge Aries sedan was found abandoned 10 days later off Kalum Lake Drive near "Deep Creek and provided officers with no clues to his dis- ppearance. “We talked to all his friends and gave polygraphs but “here? s no body, no nothing,” said Cpl. Anders Udsen of the Terrace RCMP detachment. ™ ~ Udsen said the file is still considered active but with no “recent clues, officers need to prioritize their daily ac- a “There” S not enough manpower to do it all, ” he Bai “ Eric Charles Coss is still missing from the Dease Lake rarea. Coss was travelling from Fairbanks, Alaska to ‘Tacoma, Washington in October 1997 when he dis- “appeared. « He was last in contact with friends and relatives on Oct. 19, 1997. His 1989 light beige Ford truck was found four ‘days later, 37km south of Dease Lake and east of Hwy37 ‘on an unfinished B,C, Rail bed. « The 28-year-old man weighs 200 pounds and stands 5- feet-10 inches tall. He has light brown hair, blue eyes and a strong upper body and arms. He has two tattoos on his up- per left bicep and inner right ankle. He was last believed to ‘be wearing a navy blue parka and a blue and red Cleveland ‘indians ball cap. » Dease Lake RCMP say there have been three possible sightings of Coss in Prince Rupert, Prince George and bitch-hiking near Hazelton, but none of them resulted in anything. « They put on a helicopter search and a dog team to look for him when he was first reported missing, but with no juck. Stewart RCMP do not suspect foul play in Coss’s case. Another Alaskan man, Phillip Innes Fraser, also went missing while traveling south from Alaska. = Fraser left Anchorage, Alaska on June 14, 1988 travell- ing south from the Yukon through Cassiar and Dease Lake on Hwy37. On June 18 he stopped and picked up a hitchhiker who RCMP officers believe murdered him, » The next day Fraser’s black Volkswagen Jetta was found burning in a Prince George car wash. The 23-year-old’s bullet-riddled body was found a month later in a gravel pit ilear Stewart. - In January, 1992, the American television station, Un- solved Mysteries featured Fraser’s death and received at least 400 tips but did not lead to any arrests. : Questions regarding Fraser’s case were referred to a spe- ‘From front front Families waiting for new leads and detachments so there’s a help out. He said officers from his Phe ak eS “ey lot of different people work- ing on them, ‘‘There’s a large. ‘pool of officers -:to work on these cases,” -he said, :Goodridge said he’s never had anyone call him saying His unit wasn’t doing enough work a case. “We're paying a fair bit of attention to (ihe cases), They are all ongoing inves- tigations.’ If people have a com- plaint, they should bring it to our attention,”’ he added. ‘It’s unfortunate that’s the way the families feel about them, but that’s not the case.’” ‘Goodridge’s unit, consist- ing of seven officers, help other detachments. It hand- les cascs in the area from 100 Mile House to the Yukon and from Valemount to the Queen Charlotte Is- lands. ‘Goodridge said if a detachment needs assistance an a homicide, an investi- gator from the North Dis- trict Serious Crime Unit can unit were: in Prince Rupert just recently: working on cases,“ like Ramona Wil- son’s, the teenager who was found murdered near Smithers, When asked why other RCMP officers are admit- ting there is a problem with money and resources, Goodridge said he didn’t know. He said there should never be a shortage of po- lice officers to handle cases. Goodridge said the cases involving the native women were all being looked at in- dividually because investi- gators have nothing definite to tie all the files together. However, he said officers constantly inform each other of any lew leads. Goodridge said he’s sure that most of the cases will be solved with more hard work and pevseverance, ‘Some cases are easier to solve than others,’’ he said. “We'll keep working on them and eventually we7ll get the breaks we need.”’ Terrace resident, Alaskans among open RCMP files Phillip Innes Fraser AT TOP is Phillip In- nes Fraser beside a sketch of his suspected and = un- known killer. On the right is Eric Charles Coss. Eric Charles Coss cialized unit in Vancouver which concentrates on homicides that have gone on unsolved for two years or more. Yet officers here sometimes find tine to conduct peri- odic investigations of unsolved cases, After a local officer looked into the murder of Monica Ignas, Terrace’s oldest unsolved murder, RCMP discovered new evidence and are reinvestigating the case, said Udsen. Ignas went missing from downtown Terrace on Dec. 13, 1974. RCMP officers believe she visited a Terrace hotel and tried to hitchhike to a friend's house. The 15-year-old’s strangled and naked body was found on April 8, 1975 in a bush area 100 metres off a logging road about one mile from her home in Thornhill. In 1990 RCMP intensified their investigation of her death when three witnesses came forward. Under hypnosis one woman described the vehicle RCMP believe Ignas got into and its driver, She even remembered part of a licence plate number. a The Dr. R.E.M. Lee Foundation presents Valentines Day, my dear New Orleans Style Sat. Feb. 13, 1999 a Cette ra og it a pl ie Relax in the” comfort of a ~~ Home Leisure HOT TUB Have a free Minl-Vacation in your back yard for 90 days ‘Factory Rebates. ¢ Maytag-+ GE.-". 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