Kimberly Anne Fraser

1966 - 1984  (18 years)

• Name	Kimberly Anne Fraser
  Born	1966  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Crime	Jun 1984	, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	murdered or accident
  		Fraser-KimberlyAnne-0001-Death1998.jpg Kimberly Anne Fraser - The Record, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada · Wednesday, January 28, 1998
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-122515
  Died	22 Jun 1984	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Cause: murdered
  Person ID	I122515	Generations
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	James Fraser,   d. 1983
  Mother	Hilda
  Family ID	F300242	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Dead girl an aloof, abrasive outsider. By Dianne Wood Record Staff. She was tiny and aloof, with large, wide eyes and a disposition that grated on people. She partied every weekend and often didn't make it to her Grade 11 classes at Eastwood collegiate. Described as an "outsider in her class," 17-year-old Kimberly Ann Fraser was, in many ways, as much a mystery in life as in death. Since the discovery on June 22 of the teenager's partly buried body near Waterloo's Laurel Creek Nature Centre, more questions than answers surround her case. Waterloo regional police are treating her death as a homicide, but refuse to say how she died, how long she had been missing before the body was found, how long the body had been lying in the ditch and possible motives for her killing. When her body was discovered, she was described as being only four feet six inches tall, weighing about 95 pounds and between 18 and 20 years old. "She was the size of a 10-year-old, but with the body of a woman," said Mary Adams, a guidance counsellor at Eastwood, who taught Fraser health. Adams said that when she first heard a month ago that police discovered a body, she immediately thought of Kim because of the description of the person's diminutive stature. "She was the only person I'd ever run across who was that size," Adams said. But she discarded the idea because she had just recently seen Fraser crossing a Kitchener street. Teachers and fellow classmates describe Kim as someone who kept to herself at school, spurning all friendly overtures. "She was different," Adams said. "She was a real outsider in her class. She was a tough little kid. She excluded herself and was excluded. "She had no social graces and wasn't about to learn any. She was quite chatty but she grate on the kids a bit. She told me she didn't like KCI (Kitchener-Waterloo collegiate, the school she previously attended) and wanted to come to Eastwood. "She was a tiny little red-headed girl, a cute little thing. But she was pretty worldly. I was really shocked when I heard (about her death),"" Adams said. "She wasn't tool popular with the students, I can tell you that," said a classmate in Kim's 11-L occupational class, who didn't want to be identified. Dead girl an aloof, abrasive outsider. By Dianne Wood Record staff. Shirley Cunningham, her home room teacher, said Kim "wasn't in class very often. She really was very rarely at school" "She struck me as being a poor little frightened kid. She had no friends. There were kids in (the class) who did try to bring her in. But she had an armor up against world. I think a lot of it was a front, really. She was hard to close to." Classmates say she frequently heard make it to school, and stopped coming almost entirely last January. She had only started at Eastwood last October and quit in March. Staff Sgt. Paul Jardin of the criminal investigation branch said Thursday that Fraser, who was unemployed, lived "with more than one other person" in an apartment at 1243 Queen's Blvd., Kitchener. The apartment's current occupant, who moved in early this month, knows nothing about the former tenants. Jardin, who is heading the homicide investigation, told reporters the girl moved "back and forth" between her mother's Kingswood Drive home and the apartment. Her father died last year. Lynda Bested, a student who tried to be friendly with Fraser, said she was rebuffed so often she gave up. "Nobody liked her because of the way she acted. She didn't have any friends at school, but she did have outside of school." Fraser frequently mentioned boyfriends, and several classmates said they often thought she had more than one boyfriend. "At one point, we thought she had about five," a classmate said. "Every week, she had a different boyfriend." "She hardly even talked about her family," a classmate said. Classmates said her school-arranged, two week work experience was spent at a pet store at the Stanley Park Mall. She apparently didn't like it. Fraser's body was identified June 26 when members of her family contacted police after photographs of her jewelry were made public. Confirmation was obtained through dental records. However, police delayed making her identity public until Thursday because, they said, they didn't want to jeopardize their investigation, which continues. The Record, Fri, Jul 20, 1984 Page 13

  
  

• Sources

  [S490] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - The Record (1994-March 2008), Investigator 'solves' murder but 1972 case remains open - 19 Nov 1997: A1.

  
  

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