Saskatoon murder victim Karina Wolfe troubling symbol of missing and murdered Indigenous women

Karina Beth Ann Wolfe was 20 years old and struggled with crystal meth and relationships.

Still, she kept ties with her family and it was her failure to come to her mother's birthday that sounded the alarm.

It would be five years before they learned what happened to the young woman with the dyed hair, who her family described as a talented painter and writer.

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Vanishing

Wolfe was last seen by a family member at around 6 p.m. CST on July 2, 2010 in the 800 block of Appleby Drive. 

She was a passenger in a grey Corvette driven by a man who would later become "a person of interest" in the police investigation.

Wolfe was dropped off a few kilometres away in the area of 20th Street and Avenue H. It's her last known location.

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Although she had recently moved back home with her mother, it wasn't not until almost three weeks later she's reported missing when she misses her mother's birthday on July 19.

"I knew something was wrong because she would normally come," Beth Wolfe said on the one-year anniversary of her disappearance.

Hope

The family never gave up searching and hoping for some resolution.

"I'm going to keep going," Carol Wolfe said on the fourth anniversary.

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 "I am never going to give up. I am not going to give up. I am going to keep fighting and keep looking. Keep having these walks. I am not going to just sit back and wait. I am going to do stuff. We need to find her. I mean, she is my daughter. I gotta find her." 

Murder charge

On Nov. 10, 2015, Jerry Franklin Constant voluntarily walked into the police station and offered information about what happened to Wolfe. 

The 33-year-old gave police enough that they were able to find Wolfe's body in a marsh north of the city.

Constant was charged with second-degree murder and offering an indignity to a human body. Today, he pleaded guilty to both charges at Court of Queen's Bench in Saskatoon. 

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He is a registered sex offender with previous convictions for assault and sexual assault. 

Police don't believe there was a relationship between Wolfe and the accused.