Police Warn Against Serial Killer Theories After Teen's Body Found on BC Farm

On Wednesday, a body found weeks earlier on a farm near Silver Creek, BC, was positively identified as missing teen Traci Genereaux.

The 18-year-old had been missing since May 29 and her death is being treated as suspicious. Genereaux was described by family members and friends as an energetic, artistic, and funny young woman on the upswing after a battle with addiction. The RCMP are asking for the public's help in piecing together Genereaux's final days.

Since the discovery of Genereaux's remains three weeks ago, police have, with the help of heavy equipment, been searching the farm on which she was found. In the last 20 months, five women, including Genereaux, have gone missing in the area: the others are Nicole Bell, 31, Caitlin Potts, 27, Ashley Simpson, 32, and Deanna Wertz, 46.

While some have remarked that the case shares similarities to that of one of the most infamous killers in Canadian history—Robert Pickton—police are asking that the public not jump to conclusions in the case, according to the National Post.

Spanning from the early 80s to the 2000s, Robert Pickton conducted the worst killing spree in Canadian history—some estimate that Pickton killed up to 49 women. A similar search was conducted on Pickton's pig farm outside of Port Coquitlam from early 2002 to late 2003.

CBC reports that the RCMP has contacted the families of the missing women in the area. As reported by APTN, the parents of Caitlin Potts have been told by RCMP that their search has nothing to do with her daughter. Meanwhile the parents of Ashley Simpson were told that their daughter was not found on the farm.

"I'm happy that it wasn't her and that maybe there's still a chance that she's still around somewhere, but saddened by the fact that it wasn't her and that we can't get closure,'' Ashley's father, John Simpson, recently told the Canadian Press.

The man who lives on the property, Curtis Sagmoen, 36, has recently appeared in court. Sagmoen is facing several charges after an escort was allegedly threatened with shotgun near the farm in late August—another similarity to Pickton, who targeted sex workers.

No one, including Sagmoen, is facing any charges in relation with Genereaux's death.

For now, the search of the farm property outside of the small BC town goes on with no timeline on when it will be finished, and all the families of the missing women can do is wait.

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