Sheila McIndoe Henry was 26 and about six weeks pregnant when she was killed inside the Kitsilano duplex she shared with her husband and a roommate at 3356 West 7th Avenue. On February 5, 1993, Vancouver police describe a violent struggle in which she was beaten and strangled; later accounts say she was found on the kitchen floor in a large amount of blood, with signs that a flashlight may have been used in the beating and a pillow nearby suggesting suffocation or smothering as part of the attack. David Henry discovered her that evening and called 911, but emergency personnel could not save Sheila or the unborn child.

Investigators focused on people closest to Sheila. Historical reporting identifies David Henry as the principal focus and, in some accounts, the only publicly identified suspect, while the roommate, James Becker, was investigated and reportedly eliminated because he had been attending his grandmother’s funeral.

More than three decades after the killing the Vancouver Police Department lists Sheila Henry’s homicide among its unsolved cold cases and continues to seek information capable of identifying and prosecuting whoever was responsible. Does anyone who knew Sheila or the household in early 1993 have information that could help this still-open investigation?