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Body of Beecher Bay woman found; foul play not suspected

Times Colonist10 October 2020p. A6Roxanne Egan-Elliott, Times ColonistJDF SAR era

Roxanne Egan-Elliott, Times Colonist. “Body of Beecher Bay woman found; foul play not suspected”, Times Colonist, p. A6, 10 October 2020 ref-only

Summary

The body of a missing Beecher Bay woman was found on the Friday, more than a week after she went missing. RCMP said foul play was not suspected in the death of Raymona Peter, who was last seen alive by her father on the morning of 30 September. After there had been no sign of his daughter for 24 hours, he reported her missing to police. RCMP and Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue volunteer crews started a ground search the day after Raymona was last seen; search dogs and marine crews were also brought in to look for any sign of the missing woman. The search was suspended two days later after a thorough scouring of the area.

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Details

Headline	“Body of Beecher Bay woman found; foul play not suspected”
Publication	Times Colonist
Date	10 October 2020
Page	A6
Byline	Roxanne Egan-Elliott, Times Colonist
Era	JDF SAR era
Document type	news report
Original article	ProQuest — the scanned page in the Times Colonist digital archive ↗
Source	ProQuest Digital Times Colonist via GVPL (bulk export 2026-07-16)
Accessed	2026-07-16
Licensing	ref-only
Record confidence	confirmed

Archivist's note

One of the longest-running outcomes in the modern record: reported missing on 1 October, searched for two days, found on 9 October. The project's earlier research notes flag this as a sensitive case and recommend first-name-only treatment in any published writing; the archive stores it as printed. This page was recovered from inside the ProQuest bulk export already held in the archive, where it had been listed as referenced but not held.

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Archive notes

This is a full newspaper page and carries unrelated stories as well as the article summarised here. The text is the OCR made from the ProQuest bulk export during the 2026 research phase, not a fresh pass. SENSITIVE: a death. Recovered from page 76 of the bulk export.

Record id 2020-10-10-times-colonist-pa6-beecher-bay-woman-found. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2026-07-16_proquest_bulk_export_50_articles_2012-2026.pdf (page 76).

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10 October 2020The body of a missing Beecher Bay woman was found on the Friday, more than a week after she went missing.

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