Re-Imaginings: A Mother’s Remembrance of her Murdered Daughter

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  • Josephine L. Savarese St. Thomas University

Abstract

We spent a day together when She was young. We loved lilacs—they are so beautiful. We found a lilac bush filled with blooms and gathered as many as we could. We had lilacs in every room. Her body was found after two months buried in an isolated wooded area. RCMP officers were led to the clandestine burial site by Him.

Author Biography

Josephine L. Savarese, St. Thomas University

Savarese is an associate professor in criminology and criminal justice at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She wrote about the murder of Hilary Bonnell in “Analyzing Erasures and Resistance Involving Indigenous Women in New Brunswick, Canada”—a chapter in a collection edited by Memee Lavell Harvard and Jennifer Brant titled Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada (Demeter Press, 2015).
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative Vol 9, No 1 (2018) featuring artwork by Rachel Epp Buller titled "Arbor 19."

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Savarese, J. L. (2018). Re-Imaginings: A Mother’s Remembrance of her Murdered Daughter. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, 9(1). Retrieved from https://jarm.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jarm/article/view/40487

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Journal of the Motherhood Initiative Vol 9, No 1 (2018)

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