Remembering Our Dead

Faye Urry Paquette

Fay's body was foundw in a yard after she was murdered by Dale William Eliason.

A 35-year old Prince George man is facing murder charges after Prince George's only full-time [trans sex worker] was found murdered.

Women who worked the streets with [deadname] Paquette, 41, known as Fay, say she was probably killed by an outraged client when he found out she [was trans].

"I just saw her the other night in the bar and she looked really good," said Cindy Belcourt, who worked the streets with Paquette. "She told me I was looking good, too. That's what probably happened. It was probably a case of mistaken identity."

Paquette's body was found about 11 a.m. Tuesday, curled up in an enclosed yard in an industrial area of town where [sex workers] often take their clients.

Paquette was well known [among sex workers] and one of only three [trans sex workers] in town. "One doesn't work the streets. One doesn't work that much. Fay was the only one who worked full time," Belcourt said.

She said Paquette looked out for her and the other girls. "She was tough without being tough, you know what I mean?" She was a nice person."

Prince George has about 100 [sex workers] who work regularly. Paquette's sister-in-law, Marlene Paquette, said Fay knew early on that [[she was female].

She said Fay, who had breast implants, had worked at the Shasta Restaurant for about six years as a waitress in drag.

Addicted to heroin and cocaine, she had been working day and night to get drugs. Paquette said the last time she saw Fay "she was really messed up. She was at the end of her rope."

Paquette said she last saw Fay on Tuesday morning, getting into a car up the street. Dale William Eliason, 35, who turned himself in to police Tuesday afternoon, faces murder charges.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-murder-of-transgender/143628685/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-province-murder-of-transgender-woman/143628498/

Report added: 21 Sep 2025

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