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Doreen
posted april 13, 2007

Family marks tragic anniversary (3:25 p.m.)
Sangeeta Khanna disappeared a year ago Tuesday

Paula Simons, edmontonjournal.com
Published: Friday, April 13, 2007
EDMONTON — Where is Sangeeta Khanna?

For a year, her family has been haunted by that question. On the evening of April 17, 2006, Khanna, 41, a single mother and successful businesswoman, left her home in southeast Edmonton.

She told her 15-year-old son she was going to the bank. But Khanna never came back. Twelve months on, there are no clues to her disappearance. Her family doesn’t know whether she’s alive or dead. But they won’t believe a woman they describe as a happy, devoted mother and daughter, could have run away or committed suicide.

How could an ordinary middle-class mom vanish without a trace?

As Khanna’s sisters mark a tragic anniversary, they are still searching for answers.
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Edmonton woman missing 2 years likely slain: police
single mother who disappeared from a bank parking lot two years ago was likely killed, police said Monday.

Sangeeta Khanna, 41, was last heard from just before midnight on April 17, 2006, when she called her 15-year-old son to say she would be home after stopping at the bank. Her car was later found in a bank parking lot at 23rd Avenue and 66th Street in southeast Edmonton
Police believe hours after Khanna vanished, a man transported her from Edmonton along Highway 28 to Meadow Lake, Sask., about five hours north east.

People along the route are being asked to help search for clues.

"The remains of Sangeeta Khanna may be in this particular area," Edmonton police homicide Det. Ernie Schreiber said Monday.

"So with it being springtime, with snow melt, farmers getting back on their field, people getting out camping, hiking that sort of thing — we're just asking people to be a little more aware of what they may come across. It may be human remains."

Schreiber said a suspect is not a family member, and that he was identified as a "person of interest" early in the investigation.

Khanna's family and friends have maintained from the start the she was the victim of a crime, saying the disappearance was completely out of character.

She is described as:

Five feet four inches tall, 135 lbs. with dark hair and eyes and walks with a limp.

Last seen wearing white top, white velour pants (possibly with a stripe down the side) and carrying large brown leather purse.



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Edmonton police have a suspect, a description of a suspect vehicle, and an area where they believe Sangeeta Khanna’s body may have been dumped after her mysterious disappearance two years ago.

Although officially classified as a missing persons case, police are treating it as a homicide, Det. Ernie Schreiber said Monday during a press conference at police headquarters. That’s because it was completely unlike Khanna to disappear without telling anyone, Schreiber said.

Khanna, a 41-year-old single mother, always stayed in touch with her 15-year- old son. The evening she disappeared on April 17, 2006, she had told her son she was going to the bank and she would bring him some ice cream when she returned home.

Police located Khanna’s vehicle in a bank parking lot after her son notified them of her disappearance.

Police will not say who their suspect is. They would only say he was a "person of interest" from the beginning, he is not a family member and he is not the man Khanna divorced in 2002.

Police will only say the man was known to Khanna, Schreiber said. Earlier on in the investigation, he was questioned, but he is now talking only to his lawyer.

Police think Khanna was killed and her body dumped somewhere along the highway that leads from Edmonton east through Bonnyville and Cold Lake then onto Meadow Lake, Sask.

Police want to speak to anyone who may have seen a white Dodge minivan with a black fabric covering across its front, travelling along that route in mid- April 2006.


http://www.kelowna.com/2009/10/17/from- ... oman-case/