Moira Erb, 36, was reported missing to police in Winnipeg on Aug. 10, 2003, by her family, but the last time her family saw her was a week earlier.

Her body was found on Sept. 17, 2003, beside railway tracks in a remote area in the northwest corner of the city, on Klimpke Road south of Inkster Boulevard.

Her injuries suggested she had been hit by a train, but her family questioned how she got to such a remote location. They did not recover her clothing.

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“It’s way too far to walk,” said Glen Erb, her father. “She had no shoes on. She went around a lot without shoes."

Moira had been staying at a friend’s house near Concordia Hospital, 17 kilometres from where she was found.

“She was missing for about six weeks before they found the body,” he said. “Basically, they said her legs are broken about the level where a train would be, the front of a train.”

He added, “She ended up not right at the track, at a deep ditch, in a brush area, on the north side of the tracks…. She was not visible from the track at all.“

Her family remembers her as a laughing, carefree person whose children meant everything to her.  The mother of three had been involved in the sex trade but was working hard to break free of her addictions at the time she died, they said.

"She claimed she was trying to break free of the drugs,” Glen said. “She went a couple of rehab places but didn’t stay very long."

Manitoba RCMP said there is no reason to suspect foul play in Moira Erb’s case, but the investigation into her death is still active with the historical case unit at RCMP headquarters.

“We are still hopeful that years after the fact, someone with a crucial piece of information will contact our investigators,” said RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Bert Paquet. “We never give up and go to any length to solve crimes and bring closure to the families affected.”

Glen Erb said it would be nice to know what happened to Moira. He said half of her ashes are buried next to her mother near the family’s property, and the other half at Sagkeeng First Nation, the community she was adopted from.

“I was hoping the police would do something years ago but they never did,” he said, adding that police did not interview the family.