The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the death of a 39-year-old woman who was the subject of intensive search efforts in Roberts Creek on Thursday, Dec. 8.
“Yes, I can confirm that, sadly, this search did end with the discovery of the woman deceased,” Barbara McLintock of the BC Coroners Service said Friday.
“Foul play is not suspected, and there’s actually no indication that the circumstances of her death are of any public interest,” McLintock added.
Sunshine Coast RCMP and Search and Rescue teams initiated a search for the woman Wednesday night after a concerned citizen reported seeing an unoccupied vehicle parked on a forest service road off Pell Road in Roberts Creek shortly after 7 p.m.
“The male had originally seen the vehicle parked in the area around 3:30 p.m. that afternoon with a female inside, but when he went by again several hours later, the female was gone,” RCMP said in a release.
By Thursday morning, with snowfall forecast for later in the day, mutual aid Search and Rescue crews from Powell River, Lions Bay, Squamish and the North Shore had joined in the search effort, and RCMP were asking residents in the Pell Road and Crystal Road area to check their residences and outbuildings.
At 2:55 p.m. Thursday, RCMP reported the search had ended and thanked the public “for their attention and concern.”
