Mother says RCMP need to conduct more thorough investigation into death of woman found on Sask. golf course

Val Charlette has worked with many families who have lost their children, but she says she never fully understood the pain until now.

Charlette's 25-year-old daughter, Tristan Jobb, died at a golf course in northeastern Saskatchewan on Oct. 6.

Now the mourning mother wants answers.

She filed a complaint with the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations' special investigations unit, calling for the RCMP to undertake a more active investigation and take her daughter's death more seriously, the federation said in a news release on Wednesday.

Jobb, who according to her mother was visiting a friend in Flin Flon, Man. — just across the provincial border from Creighton, Sask. — was a member of Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, the federation said.

"I've never … experienced this type of grief before," Charlette in an interview with CBC on Thursday.

"I'm hoping that someone comes forward and tells us what happened — how did she get out there and how she died — that's our family's hope." 

RCMP previously said officers responded to a call on Oct. 6 about a woman in medical distress at a golf course in Creighton. Emergency responders declared Jobb dead at the scene.

Police conducted "a thorough examination of the scene to locate, collect and analyze evidence that would assist in determining the circumstances of her death," Saskatchewan RCMP said in an email to CBC on Thursday.

They have also followed up on all information and tips received, the statement said, and the RCMP's major crimes unit "was, and continues to be engaged, in this investigational process."

None of the evidence, including autopsy results from the Saskatchewan Coroners Service, indicates that the cause of Jobb's death was criminal, RCMP said.

Jobb's mother doesn't believe that officers took her daughter's death seriously from the start.

"Contrary to the coroner's report, I believe her death was suspicious," she said in the FSIN's news release.

Social media posts said "she was seen in different places with different people," Charlette said, and the family "is seeking a full investigation into her death."