RCMP seeking furniture dumper
SURREY: Police looking for information on activity in park the night sex worker was killed
Some furniture was left in a Surrey park near where the body of Lisa Ann Zielke was found on Halloween morning and the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team wants to speak to whoever dumped off that furniture to find out if they saw anything that could help them in the case.
Zielke, 41, was named by police Monday after her family was informed of her death.
The drug-dependent sex-trade worker, a longtime resident of Surrey, was a mother of two — although the children were not in her care, according to Sgt. Jennifer Pound of IHIT.
It’s not just whoever left the brown sofa bed and grey table and two chairs that police want to interview.
“Someone may have seen the furniture travelling to the site,” said Pound.
Zielke was last seen October 30 getting into a vehicle at 6:15 p.m. in the 9100 block of King George Boulevard.
Her body was found in Hi-Knoll Park 17 hours later by workers assigned to take care of the area, which is near 192 Street and Colebrook Road and approximately 20 kilometres away from where she was last seen.
The furniture was not there the previous day.
Police have already warned sextrade workers about the killing.
Pound said investigators are also hoping to speak to anyone who may have seen Zielke after 6:15 p.m. on Oct. 30.
An autopsy has been conducted but police are still awaiting the final results.
Zielke’s death was the 20th homicide of the year to take place in Surrey.
Pound wouldn’t say whether Zielke was killed somewhere and taken to Hi-Knoll or whether she died there.