Ardeth (Mary Margaret) Wood

Ardeth (Mary Margaret) Wood (27) (Hoax)

Five foot seven, 130pds
Blond hair, blue eyes
Dressed in workout clothes

University of Waterloo PhD student [philosophy] home on a break to visit her family in Ottawa

12:30 p.m. takes brothers black Peugeot bike along the Rockcliffe Parkway

Mother made a strawberry marshmallow dish for that evening's desert

Disappeared : August 6th 2003 while riding her bike along a Rockcliffe parkway path near her Orleans home.
Family calls police at 6 p.m.

Aug 7th 2003: Massive search involving hundreds of volunteers and police officers

Aug 10th 2003: Police divers discover Ms. Woods bike submerged in Green's Creek, near the Ottawa River

Aug 11th 2003: Wood's nude body is discovered by a police dog, submerged in Green's Creek, not far from a bike path

Aug 13th 2003: Forensic testing confirms body is Ms. Wood's

Aug 18th 2003: Funeral

Aug 19th 2003: Autopsy results show cause of death to be drowning

Sept 10th 2003: Police release sketch of a tattoo they believe the suspect has on his upper arm [eagle or phoenix]

July 6th 2004: Photo of sunglasses left at crime scene shown

5,000 Tips

Father : Brenden Wood
Mother : Catherine Wood
Brother : Colum Wood
Brother : Crispin Wood

Charges laid against: Chris Myers (25)
North Bay, October 20th 2005
One count murder
Five separate counts of sexual assault
Lawer: Bob [Robert] Carew
Income: Disability
August 2003: Working nights washing dishes at a restaurant for $7 an hour
Ex girlfriend: Katherine Piché:
"He wouldn't go anywhere without his sunglasses"
One of three brothers, oldest of
Counsellor: Mr. Myers would lash out in rage, stripping himself naked and masturbating

Myers moved to Ottawa from Belleville when he was adopted at the age of four

Lisgar Street apartment, roommate, $360/month rent
They'd go out for the odd beer at a Bank Street pub
Myers liked Labatt's Blue and smoked cheap cigarettes
Listened to 'gangsta rap' and biked where needed
Two previous charges in 2000 of drug trafficking
Nov 2004: Charged with uttering a threat

Myers suspect in killing of a Laurentian University student Jan 27th 1998 [Sudbury]
Renée Sweeney, 23, stabbed to death [11 a.m.] while working alone during the day at an Adults Only video store
[robbed of less than $200]
History student, trombonist
Stepfather: Bill Strachan

Suspect fled leaving footprints in the snow, discarding a blood-stained nylon jacket, white gardening gloves [cotton gloves: Oct 24th Ottawa Sun] and a grey fleece top in nearby wooded areas, as well as leaving DNA evidence at the scene

Numbers
Days to arrest: 806
Full-time investigators: 10
Persons of interest: 1,700
Active suspects after 2yrs: 100
Cost of investigation: $675,000
Reward offered by police: $50,000
Area searched for body: 35sq km
Helicopters used: 2
Days to find body: 6
Pieces of potential physical evidence collected at crime scene: 100
Mourners at funeral: 600

Ed Teague: Says Ardeth Wood's family can 'make it through' with 'prayer and belief in our God.'

Monday Oct 24th 2005: Two suspect sketches, eyeglasses not sunglasses
^Ottawa Sun

Alexandra Bridge: April 23rd: Woman approached, fought off attacker

North Bay: May 11th: 3 a.m.: 18 year old [shared house with father] finished late shift at Tim Hortons
-Walking near Marshall Park Drive and Blair Street
-Myers 'trying to get back to Lakeshore Drive'
-Dragged girl across road into bush and groped her, interrupted by neighbor who chased man off with shovel
-Girl has since moved into a new house near father's, lives with boyfriend of four months along with a couple of roommates and their young children

Photo: Chris Myers, as in grade 9 Laurentian High School yearbook

Myers worked at the Attfields' family-owned Fallowfield Tree Farm from about Aug, or early Sept 2003 to just before christmas that year
Co-worker: Peter Attfield
"Wraparound sunglasses"
Attfield's dad: Don, contacted last June

Woman: Michele Heights townhouse:  Aug 2003, with g/f, thrown out early Sept
-Liked wearing temporary stick-on tattoos and always had his sunglasses on, even in the house
-One of them was a bird tattoo
-Before, lived in tent at Britannia Beach
-After leaving woman's house Myers moved a few houses up the street and into the basement of Kevin Eddy's home; there for 3 months before Eddy, 45, threw him out
Worked with Eddy at a Christmas Tree Farm, the last time he saw Myers was in Jan 2004