‘Help us’: Ontario Indigenous woman’s murder still unsolved 2 decades later – Global News
May 20, 2026
OPP are renewing calls for assistance in the investigation of the homicide of an Indigenous woman that occurred nearly two decades ago in Cobourg, Ont.
Police say a person was walking along the train tracks east of Ontario Street on Nov. 12, 2007, when they came across a deceased woman. The woman was identified as 28-year-old Rachel Russell.
The cause of death was blunt force trauma, the post-mortem determined. Police say they believe Russell was murdered in late October and her body went undiscovered until November. She was last seen Oct. 25, 2007.
