Two days after Danielle Ewenin learned that her 23-year-old sister had been found frozen to death in a farmer’s field on the outskirts of Calgary, Alberta, a city in southwestern Canada, she said she sat down with a police officer to try to understand how such a tragedy could have happened.
It was February 1982 and Danielle, 22, and her parents were inside a family member’s home in Regina, a city in Saskatchewan, Canada, when the local officer, who she said had been briefed by Calgary police, explained that her sister Eleanor “Laney” Ewenin was last seen leaving a downtown bar in Calgary. Two days later, police reportedly found her in a field that Danielle estimates would have been about 20 miles from the town center at that time.
“They had told us that it had snowed, so they could see the tire tracks pulling in and the tracks pulling out and that they could see that she was trying to make her way across the field,” said Danielle, who described the meeting with police as lasting about an hour. “There was a building there that had lights on, so they felt that that’s where she was going.”
But she would never make it. Tracks in the snow, according to Danielle, indicated that she fell three times and on the third fall she never got back up.
The mother of two boys, ages 5 and 3, was found face down, dead in the snow after preceding nights dropped as low as -15F.
According to the autopsy provided by her family, Laney’s cause of death was hypothermia, with alcoholic intoxication listed as the “antecedent cause.” That same year her death was ruled non-suspicious, according to Alberta Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
But in the ensuing decades, family members have become convinced of a very different version of events; they say she was a victim of the so-called “starlight tours.”
The shocking practice, which has been documented many times in Canada, typically involves law enforcement officers…
Source : yahoo
