Murder of Helen Betty Osborne

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Helen Betty Osborne (July 16, 1952 – November 13, 1971) was an Indigenous Canadian woman who was a member of the Norway House Cree Nation. In November 1971, Osborne was abducted, beaten, and murdered while walking home from the Northern Lite Cafe in The Pas, Manitoba. The horrific nature of the crime, compounded by the mishandling of the investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that prolonged solving her murder and bringing the perpetrators to justice by sixteen years, brought greater awareness of the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women to the Canadian public.

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