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It still hurts to recall it H e r b r u t a l d e a t h shocked t h e Downtown E a s t s i d e , s p a r k i n g a mass o u t p o u r i n g of g r i e f and a p r o t e s t march through t h e streets. N o w t h e just-completed murder trial in B.C. Supreme Court has brought back t h e disturbing memories and shed new'light o n the last tragic hours of Cheryl Ann Joe. C h e r y l , aged 28, d i e d of a v i c i o u s b e a t i n g and s t a b b i n g i n January, 1992. Her body was found wrapped i n a b l a n k e t and dumped by t h e r a i l r o a d t r a c k s down by t h e docks a t t h e f o o t of S a l s b u r y Drive, n e a r Powell Street
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A t t h e time, she was t h e l a t e s t of a t l e a s t 48 womenmost of them n a t i v e - who had d i e d v i o l e n t l y o r from drug c a u s e s on downtown s t r e e t s i n the p a s t 15 y e a r s . -
More t h a n 200 of h e r r e l a t i v e s and f r i e n d s conducted a smudge, a n a t i v e c l e a n s i n g ceremony, a t t h e s i t e of h e r d e a t h , and t h e n marched back t o Carnegie t o t a l k about ways of s t o p p i n g t h e carnage a g a i n s t women. Cheryl was a g e n t l e , t i m i d woman who worked t h e s t r e e t s on o c c a s i o n t o e a r n e x t r a money f o r her t h r e e small children. The
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