Episode 20: Missing and Indigenous Women: The Case of Aielah Saric Auger

Missing and Indigenous women go unreported everyday.  On Thursday, February 2—Aielah, her sister Kyla and brother, Tim headed to the Pine Center Mall. Aielah and her sister ran into some friends at the mall and the group decided to get together later that evening. Tim opted out and the girls went alone. At some point, Aielah and her sister were separated and went different ways. When her sister, Kyla arrived home early the next morning, she didn’t find her sister at home. A little panic set in and on Friday morning, her mother went to the police to file a missing person’s report. The police told her to wait 78 hours to see if Aielah would show up, and if she didn’t —then she could come back again and file a report.

On February 10, almost a week after she was last seen at the mall, a witness alerted police to seeing something in a ditch alongside Highway 16.  When police went to investigate, they discovered the body of a young woman in the ditch. The body was identified as that of Aielah Auger. Police determined that Aielah had died from blunt force trauma to the head and her death has yet to be solved.