Lisa Ann Zielke Elick, a 41-year-old woman from Surrey, British Columbia, was the victim of a homicide in late October 2013. Contemporary reporting does not support the October 2, 2026 date; police records reported in the media show that she was last seen alive on the evening of October 30, 2013, and that her body was discovered the following morning. Zielke was described by homicide investigators as drug dependent and as working in the sex trade, primarily in the Surrey area.
At approximately 6:30 p.m. on October 30, Zielke was seen getting into a vehicle in the 9100 block of King George Boulevard. Roughly 17 hours later, on October 31, her body was found in a parking area near 195th Street and Colebrook Road, beside Hi-Knoll Park. The discovery immediately drew the attention of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, which treated her death as a suspected murder. Police did not publicly disclose the manner in which she had been killed.
Investigators found an unusual collection of furniture in the same parking area, including a brown sofa bed along with a wooden table and chairs. Detectives believed the furniture had been dumped at approximately the same time Zielke was at the location. That timing became an important focus of the investigation because police believed whoever transported and discarded the furniture could possess information about what happened to her. Investigators released photographs of the items in hopes that someone would recognize them, remember seeing them being transported, or identify the vehicle or people responsible for leaving them there.
Police said the person or people responsible for dumping the furniture were individuals they particularly wanted to identify and interview. Investigators described the information surrounding the furniture as potentially capable of leading them to a person of interest, but publicly available reports did not identify those individuals as suspects or accuse them of killing Zielke. Authorities also appealed directly to people who might have seen a vehicle carrying the furniture before it was abandoned near the body.
An autopsy was performed after Zielke's body was recovered, although investigators said at the time that the final report would not be completed until toxicology testing was finished. Police did not release a cause of death in the reports that followed. Investigators also declined to publicly establish whether her killing was connected to several other bodies that had been discovered in the broader area during 2013. In response to her death, police warned other sex workers operating under similar circumstances to take additional precautions while investigators attempted to determine who had killed her.
No publicly identified suspect, arrest, criminal charge, trial, or conviction in Zielke's killing was found in the available reporting. Later online references continue to classify her case among Canada's unsolved murders. The investigative focus made public in 2013 remained centered on reconstructing her final hours, identifying the vehicle she entered on King George Boulevard, and finding the person or people connected with the furniture left near the location where her body was discovered.
