MICHELLE CAROLINE CHOINIERE / MISSING & Skeletal remains found

VANCOUVER -- A grieving aunt says the skeletal remains of her niece, a missing woman from Surrey, B.C., have been found in the Fraser Valley, where police allege a serial killer has preyed on sex-trade workers...Michelle Choiniere was a prostitute and a drug user, as were three women who have been linked to accused serial killer Davey Mato Butorac... It is not clear, however, whether the RCMP have investigated Mr. Butorac in connection with Ms Choiniere...After Mr. Butorac was charged with two murders last week, RCMP Cpl. Dale Carr said the Integrated Homicide Investigations Team was "looking at him linked to other homicides."... Cpl. Carr said Tuesday he didn't recall Ms. Choiniere being among the files IHIT was reviewing for the Butorac probe, but added it would be standard for investigators to check for any similarities... "That name hasn't surfaced, to my knowledge, as an interest in the Butorac case," Cpl. Carr said. "However, we'll certainly look at it as a possibility to see if there were links because we are open to any and all possibilities."... Ms. Choiniere's aunt told Canwest News Service Tuesday that bones found in an undisclosed location in the Fraser Valley, east of Vancouver, on Dec. 7 have been confirmed as belonging to the missing woman... Although the RCMP announced Ms. Choiniere was missing in the fall of 2005, no news release was ever issued to indicate her remains had been found... Cpl. Carr said Tuesday he was unable to reach the lead investigator on the file to confirm the information provided by Choiniere's aunt....B.C. Coroners' Service and the Surrey RCMP detachment deferred all questions about Choiniere to IHIT... After receiving the stunning news about the bones being found, Ms. Choiniere said she contacted a coroner and a pathologist involved in the file who indicated her niece's identification was made through teeth found at the scene...."It's tragic, it's terrible. The last two years have been hell on everybody," said Ms. Choiniere. "[Michelle] was loved. She had a mother and relatives who loved her to bits."