Alberta RCMP say human remains found near Leduc, south of Edmonton, are 33-year-old Delores Brower, who was reported missing by family in June 2005.
The Métis woman, known by the nickname Spider, worked in the sex trade in Edmonton and was last seen by police on the corner of 118th Avenue and 70th Street on May 13, 2004, at 5:40 a.m. Police said she was trying to get a ride westbound.
Her remains were found on April 19, 2015, on a rural property near Rolleyview, east of Leduc and south of Edmonton.
Brower's family knows her remains have been found and, in a statement distributed by the RCMP, they asked for privacy.
"While we are saddened to have confirmation that Delores' remains have been found, there is a sense of thankfulness as well. We loved Delores and are grateful to have some closure.
"While we are grieving with some sense of relief, we know there are many families who have yet to find the answers they are seeking," the statement read.
At the time of Brower's disappearance, JoAnn McCartney, a former police officer who worked to help prostitutes get off the street, described her as a tiny, quiet woman who was often depressed.
McCartney said she last saw Brower in late 2003, and that she was trying to leave the sex trade.
Other human remains have been located within an eight-kilometre radius of where Brower's remains were found in 2003 and 2012.
Thomas Svekla who was convicted in 2008 of killing sex-trade worker Theresa Innes was a suspect in Brower's disappearance.
During a police interrogation in November 2006, RCMP told Svekla he was a suspect in the murder of seven other women and two more women missing at the time.
Svekla was the first person charged by Project Kare, a joint task force between Edmonton city police and RCMP that investigates the deaths and disappearances of sex-trade workers and others described as living "high-risk lifestyles."
Police haven't determined how Brower died and are appealing to the public for any information in her death.
"We are asking you today; we need the public's assistance in finding out what happened to Delores," said Insp. Stacey Talbot.
Anyone with any information about her death is asked to contact RCMP.
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