✝️ Lisa Marie Gavin, age 21 – August 8 1988, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦💔
Lisa Marie was born in a prison hospital and addicted to heroin. When she was a few months old, she was placed with the Tuerlings, a family with four kids that lived on a farm in Richmond.
“I just want to know what happened. I want the whole story. I want people to know that she was more than a prostitute, she was more than a dancer, she was our little sister and we loved her with our whole heart,” says Sharon Tuerlings.
Lisa Marie stayed with the Tuerlings until just after her ninth birthday, when the Ministry of Social Services awarded custody back to Lisa’s biological mother, a drug dealer and user.
By her early teens, Lisa was once again addicted, this time to cocaine.
Lisa Marie was found strangled in an alley.
Just over six weeks after Lisa was murdered, the body of her best friend, 25-year-old Glenna Sowan, was found strangled, beaten and left behind a house on West 24th Avenue and Willow Street. Another friend Tracey Leigh Chartrand, 25, disappeared and was found dead months later.