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[Victoria Watcher]

Justice still pending, 7 years after Vernon teen's remains found

 

 

Charges still yet to be laid after Traci Genereaux's remains were found Oct. 21, 2017

 

 

 

 

The property where Genereaux's remains were found is connected to Curtis Sagmoen, who has been convicted of violent crimes against women in the past. In December 2019 he was found guilty of threatening a sex trade worker with a firearm while wearing a mask. In February 2020 he was found guilty of violently ramming another sex trade worker with an ATV. Both crimes took place at the same Salmon River Road property where Traci's remains were found, roughly two months before the discovery of her remains there. 

 

Police have not publicly connected Sagmoen to Genereaux's death.

 

Rallies have taken place at the Salmon River Road farm in the past, and Martin said on Monday a pair of women went to the farm in a spur-of-the-moment call for justice.

 

"I just got the news that they had gone out there, they put this cross up there, and then they also wrote on the road 'Who murdered Traci Genereaux?' At the time they did that, apparently Curtis drove by in his vehicle and went flying by, because he was I guess a little upset about it," she said, adding she was informed the women stayed off the property and stuck to the adjacent road. 

 

 

 

 

https://www.vernonmo...s-found-7606044

 

 

 

 

 

 

November, 2017:

 

 

 

She grew up in Vernon, B.C., and fell in with a bad crowd in her teenage years, he said. She used drugs and worked in the sex trade for a period of time, but her father said she had quit both by the time she went missing.

 

She had begun volunteering at the SPCA and wanted to become a veterinarian, he said, adding she especially loved ducks.

 

"I don't know what it was about a duck,'' he said. "We'd take her down to the duck park here and it would just send her to the moon, even in the last couple years. She was like one of the little kids at the duck park.''

 

She had two older siblings, a sister and a brother, and all three loved to draw, a talent they inherited from their mother, he said.

 

Mounties began searching a rural property near Salmon Arm last month and announced the discovery of human remains on Oct. 21.

 

The investigation of the 10-hectare property located on Salmon River Road is ongoing, and police said they're working to establish a timeline of Genereaux's whereabouts on the days leading up to May 29, the last day she was seen.

 

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...reaux-1.4385531

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 25 October 2024 - 01:00 AM.