A mother issued an emotional plea this week asking anyone who may know what happened to her daughter, whose badly-beaten body was found outside a home on the Nadleh reserve near Fort Fraser, to step forward.
Police are treating the death of Destiny Rae Tom, 21,as the result of foul play.
"We believe that someone out there knows something and has yet to come forward with information surrounding Destiny's death," Vivian Tom said Wednesday during a media event at the Fort Fraser RCMP detachment. "Please - if you have any information that will help with the investigation, we ask you to help us. Please come forward with the truth."
Tom's body was found during the early morning of Saturday, March 23. A man known to Tom was subsequently arrested but later released without charges.
The mother of a three-year-old girl, Tom was described as "beautiful, caring, and loving person."
"Destiny loved life, loved people and had many family and friends that loved her," Vivian Tom said of her youngest daughter. "Her life was tragically taken far too soon. Whoever is responsible for Destiny's death is still out there."
Vivian was joined by husband Andy and about 20 family and friends when she delivered her call for help.
"My husband, children and especially our three-year-old granddaughter deserve closure to this horrific nightmare," Vivian Tom said. "We are not sleeping and we are having difficulty eating."
Police had been treating the death as suspicious and say an autopsy conducted earlier this month confirmed it was a homicide. The case remains a priority for RCMP investigators, said North District RCMP Cst. Lesley Smith.
The Nadleh Reserve, 140 km west of Prince George, is the main reserve for the Nadleh Whut'en First Nation. Some 222 of the Nadleh Whut'en's 514 members live on its reserves, according to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Fraser Lake RCMP at (250) 699-7777 or, to remain anonymous, Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).
