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Who Is She? Police Looking For White Powder Confessional Woman

Authorities are calling it the greatest ‘Where’s Waldo?’ challenge ever.
Photo via Crime Stoppers

Police are asking internet users to help identify a young woman related to white powder and bomb scare investigations in Saskatoon. In a video sent to media, the mystery woman confessed to the sending of packages of white powder for which another woman was arrested for in the Saskatchewan city.

Bizarrely, they say the unknown woman was likely unaware what the video footage she appeared in would be used for.

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In April, Alexa Emerson (aka Amanda Totchek) was arrested on multiple charges in Saskatoon in relation to packages of white powder that had been mailed to various locations in the city, including schools, businesses, and a cancer centre. Though the incidents turned out to be hoaxes, they reportedly cost more than $200,000 in police and firefighter resources between fall 2016 to spring 2017.

The questionable confessional video was sent to multiple media outlets the day before Emerson's arrest in April. Months later, the woman who appeared in the video remains unidentified.

The video shows a woman wearing an orange shirt sitting on a couch speaking directly to camera and runs just under two minutes. Crime Stoppers posted on Facebook urging people to help identify the unknown woman from the confessional video: "This woman is needing to be identified and spoken with by the police in relation to this investigation. She is not in trouble."

They're calling it the greatest 'Where's Waldo?' internet challenge ever.

Crime Stoppers say that the unknown woman may have made the video because she was doing freelance services on the site fiverr.com or another like it. Fiverr is a site marketed to entrepreneurs where you can buy freelance services, such as those for video, audio, and graphic design.

Emerson, the woman arrested in relation to the hoaxes, reportedly has a history of targeting her ex-partners and their friends and family since 2013.

"She has been trying to ruin my life and my family's life for the past seven months," one of her alleged victims told CBC. The same victim told CBC that Emerson had someone impersonate their cousin in a video that was sent to media.

"It definitely is very unique," said Ryan Ehalt, of the Saskatoon Police Service and Saskatoon Crime Stoppers.

"[The unknown woman] somehow got caught up in something that she had no knowledge about and most likely created this video without the knowledge of what the video was going to be used for."

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