Nineteen-year-old Glenda Morrisseau was a member of the Sagkeeng First Nation and lived with her parents in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. On July 16th, 1991, she’d been spending time with friends and family at the Stock Exchange Hotel.
Later that night, at around two thirty on the morning of July 17th, Glenda was spotted hitchhiking on Logan Avenue. Witnesses later reported she’d gotten into an older model, dark-colored station wagon, possibly with light yellow seat covers. The vehicle was driven by a middle-aged man. Glenda was never seen alive again.
A couple of days later, Glenda’s sister reported the disappearance to police, and a search was launched. For weeks, no trace of the young woman was found, but then, on August 7th, her body was discovered on a construction site in St. Boniface, about three miles from where she was last seen.
It appeared that she had been murdered by blunt force trauma to the head, as she had grievous injuries to her jaw, eye socket, and cheekbones. There was also the strong possibility that the crime had a sexual motive, as she was discovered nude from the waist down. Her pants and underwear were never recovered, leading authorities to suspect that she had likely been killed in a car and then dumped at the construction site in the dead of night.
The homicide very quickly went cold and has remained that way ever since. In late September of 2017, Glenda Morrisseau’s case was featured on the APTN network’s program Taken, but sadly, the renewed exposure led to no arrests. The crime is one of many unsolved murders of indigenous women in Canada.
Crime Immemorial 