A B.C. woman's disappearance from her home in Peru last year is now being investigated as a homicide. Kimberlee Kasatkin's parents last heard from their daughter on Nov. 26. The 41-year-old, who is originally from Abbotsford, had been living in Lima with her common-law partner Christopher Franz and her two children for the past three years. "Kim is a loving mother and she's very active on social media," her mother Kathleen Kasatkin said in a press conference on Jan. 11.

Kimberlee's parents flew to Peru in January to search for answers. "Up to five people go missing a day in Lima and it has been implied that bribes and rewards are the surest way to start getting answers in Peru," the family wrote on a GoFundMe page set up to help fund their search. Shortly after Kasatkin's disappearance, her partner appeared in a video where he told a missing persons blogger Kasatkin was depressed and had abandoned her family without leaving a note, CTV News reported.