The Mary Rose Keadjuk Case

Mary Rose Keadjuk
Case reference: 2014001907
Missing since: June 28, 1990
Missing from: Yellowknife, NT
Year of birth: 1965
Age at disappearance: 24 yrs
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Indigenous
Eye color: Brown
Hair: Black
Teeth: Dental records indicate 1 tooth treated and 6 teeth absent.
Height: 160 cms / 5ft 3in
Weight: 59 kgs / 130 lbs

Details: Mary Rose Keadjuk was an Inuk woman from Kugluktuk, Nunavut, has been a missing person since June 1990, when she was last seen in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. While a bone fragment found in 2003 was positively identified as hers in 2018, her case remains an active and unsolved police investigation into her death.

Mary Rose was last seen at the Gold Range Hotel in Yellowknife on June 28, 1990, but she wasn’t reported missing until September 1990. At the time of her disappearance, she was 24 years old and pregnant. Mary Rose was a mother to a four-year-old son and was living at the Gold Range Hotel. When police searched her hotel room after she was reported missing, all of her personal belongings were still there, including the eyeglasses she needed for her vision.

In 2003, a human bone fragment was found in the Con Mine area of Yellowknife. Due to advances in forensic technology, specifically analysis at a specialized lab in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the fragment was definitively matched to Mary Rose’s DNA in February 2018, providing her family with some closure, though not on the cause of her death.

The RCMP considers her death to be a murder and the investigation into the circumstances of her disappearance and death is active and open. Mary Rose Keadjuk is one of four young Indigenous women who disappeared from the Yellowknife area between 1988 and 1991 in unsolved cases.

If you have information on Mary Rose’s case, please contact any of the following:
G Division Major Crimes Unit RCMP: 867-765-3822
Reference Case#: 2012-1114141

Crime Stoppers: 1-800-222-TIPS(8477)
Online at: https://www.canadiancrimestoppers.org/submit-a-tip/submit-a-tip
Crime Stoppers provides anonymous tipping

Send email to the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains at: canadasmissing-disparuscanada@rcmp-grc.gc.ca

Sources: Canada’s Missing, Doe Network, CBC, NNSL Media