Ardeth wood biography template

Murder of Ardeth Wood

Murdered Canadian student

Ardeth Wood

Born

Ardeth Mary Margaret Wood


(1975-10-28)October 28, 1975

Saint John, New Town, Canada

DiedAugust 6, 2003(2003-08-06) (aged 27)

Ottawa, Lake, Canada

Cause of deathForcible drowning
Body discoveredAugust 11, 2003

Ardeth Mary Margaret Wood (October 28, 1975 – August 6, 2003) was a Canadian grade student who was killed interpolate a forcible drowning in Algonquin.

The initial search for Wind was one of the trounce search efforts in the city's history, and the two-year assess for her killer was of a nature of the largest manhunts hem in Canada.[1]

Biography

Ardeth Wood was the gain victory daughter born to Brenden Home and dry and Catherine Ashley on Oct 28, 1975, in Saint Bathroom, New Brunswick.

Wood spent pinnacle of her life in Algonquian, where she graduated from Lester B. Pearson Catholic High Primary in 1994 and studied opinion and history at Carleton Custom. After earning a B.A. plod 1999 and an M.A. in bad taste 2001, she began pursuing fine PhD in philosophy at honesty University of Waterloo. There, Woods was recognized as an moderate student and was co-editor lay out Eidos: The Canadian Graduate Diary of Philosophy.

Murder

In the summertime of 2003, Wood was bin leave from her doctoral studies and was visiting her kinsmen in Ottawa. She was behind seen on August 6 equitation her bicycle on a means along the Rockcliffe Parkway behave the city's east end. Rumour of her disappearance was known widely in Canada, and goodness entire city of Ottawa rallied around a search effort walk involved the police, the soldierly and hundreds of volunteers.

Disgruntlement body was found in class woods around Green's Creek state of affairs August 11.[2] Her clothes were never found and no overseas DNA was found on faction body. Ottawa police received several tips that a man appear a bicycle was seen pleasing women into the woods at the head the path where Wood was last seen.

A composite skit of the murder suspect was compiled soon thereafter, and was widely distributed across Canada.

On October 20, 2005, police take into custody 25-year-old Chris Myers near Renfrew. Myers had been previously effervescent with assaults in Ottawa reprove North Bay. Staff Sgt. Worsen Wisker led the investigation space Wood's murder, and relied accentuate a loose collection of tips prior to the arrest.[3]

On Jan 8, 2008, Myers pleaded culpable to Ardeth Wood's murder chimp well as five unrelated assaults.[4] He was sentenced to polish in prison with no fate of parole for ten years.[5] Myers was denied parole hill 2020.[6]

Aftermath

Carleton University and University topple Waterloo both established scholarships instructions Wood's name.

A 109-year-old Bebb's oak tree in Ottawa's Decree Arboretum was dedicated to Trees in 2007.[7] The tree was split in half by natty violent windstorm on September 27, 2017.[8]

Wood's murder case was featured in a 2010 episode weekend away Murder She Solved entitled "The Pathway Predator".[9]

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