Canada BRAYLEE BEASLEY: Missing from St. Albert, AB - December 2025 - Age 9 months

Alberta police charge man with murder of Inuk partner, continue search for couple’s daughter

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Alberta police charge man with murder of Inuk partner, continue search for couple’s daughter​

Police in Alberta are looking for a nine-month-old girl after her mother was found dead in their apartment in St. Albert, Alta. They charged the woman’s common-law partner — the father of the missing girl — with second-degree murder.

On Jan. 23, RCMP officers found Ayla Egotik-Learn, 23, dead after they were called to the apartment block by a building employee who reported discovering what RCMP Insp. Wayne Stevenson called a “suspicious item.”

Police later determined the item contained human remains. The RCMP’s major crimes unit then took over the case.

Originally from Cambridge Bay, Egotik-Learn had moved to St. Albert in 2024.

Police made the announcement during a news conference Thursday at the RCMP’s Edmonton headquarters. Police provided Nunatsiaq News a recording of the news conference.

The employee who discovered the item had entered the home to carry out an eviction order.

Police believe Egotik-Learn was killed sometime in early December, Stevenson said.

After discovering Egotik-Learn’s body, officers learned her nine-month-old daughter, Braylee Beasley, was missing. Since that time, they have been trying to find her.

Though the search is ongoing, police believe the young girl is likely dead, Stevenson said at the news conference.

Investigators have a strong suspicion of where her remains may be, Stevenson added without elaborating.

On Thursday, police found Egotik-Learn’s 33-year-old common-law partner, Christopher William Beasley, who is the father of the missing girl, at a St. Albert hotel. They charged him with second-degree murder and two counts of indignity to a human body — one against Egotik-Learn and one against their daughter.

 

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RCMP believe 23-year-old Ayla Egotik-Learn was killed on or near Dec. 5, 2025 and her missing child, nine-month-old daughter Braylee Beasley, is also dead.

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Missing baby feared dead after mom’s remains found in St. Albert apartment​

For nearly seven weeks, the remains of a mother sat inside an unsuspecting downtown St. Albert apartment and her infant daughter was no where to be found.

RCMP believe 23-year-old Ayla Egotik-Learn was killed on or around Dec. 5, 2025. Police think her missing child, nine-month-old daughter Braylee Beasley, is also dead.

It was only when the property manager of Sturgeon Point Villas went to carry out an eviction last week that the horror of what may have occurred began to come to light.

“Representatives of the building went in to do a check, so to speak,” Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit Sgt. James McConnell said.

He spoke Thursday at a news conference where police detailed what they could about the presumed double homicide in the community directly adjacent to northwest Edmonton.

“When they entered the residence, they found this package,” McConnell said.

That’s when RCMP were called in. Officers responded on Friday, Jan 23, to reports of a suspicious item in the apartment along Rivercrest Crescent.

Police arrived and determined they were dealing with the human remains of woman. Her remains were taken to the medical examiner’s office in Edmonton.

The Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit took the lead on the case and help was called in from the Edmonton Forensic Identification Section and St. Albert RCMP General Investigation Section.

The urgency ramped up when they realized Braylee was missing and her safety was in question.

“A that time we believed that she was deceased, we transitioned to a homicide investigation,” McConnell said, adding there were over 50 police officers working around the clock on the case.


Four days later on Jan. 27, officers arrested St. Albert resident Christopher William Beasley, 33, at a hotel in that city. He is charged with second-degree-murder and two counts of indignity to a body.

“The charge of second-degree murder pertains to the death of Ayla. The charges of indignity to a body pertain to both Ayla and Braylee,” Stevenson said.

RCMP said he was in a common-law relationship with Egotik-Learn and was Braylee’s father.

Police said they had lived at the apartment in St. Albert since the spring of 2024.

Egotik-Learn was from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, RCMP said, but she’d been in Alberta since April 2024, which is when police believe her relationship began with the accused. Braylee was born about a year later.

“My understanding is her world was her child and that she spent all the time she could with her,” McConnell said.

The couple’s relationship had domestic abuse issues, court records indicate. Last July, Beasley pleaded guilty to assaulting Egotik-Learn between mid-February and at the end of April. He was sentenced to 18 months of probation.

The accused was also charged twice last year with threatening to kill Egotik-Learn multiple times, but both charges were later withdrawn.

Beasley was previously handed a probation sentence in 2019 for assaulting a different person.

 

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Stepdaughter’s death ‘too raw’ to talk about, Iqaluit man says

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Stepdaughter’s death ‘too raw’ to talk about, Iqaluit man says​

The stepfather of an Inuk woman allegedly killed by her common-law partner and whose infant daughter is still missing says it’s too painful to talk about the “beautiful young lady and daughter” he lost.

“They are both my beauties and I will love them very much, forever,” Ross Learn said of his stepdaughter Ayla Egotik-Learn, 23, who moved to Alberta from Cambridge Bay in 2024, and her nine-month-old daughter Braylee Beasley.


In a news conference Thursday, RCMP Insp. Wayne Stevenson said police suspect the infant is likely dead and are actively looking for her. He said they “have some understanding” of where she might be.

In an interview Monday, RCMP Sgt. James McConnell said, “We are continuing to investigate and continuing to search for her.

“If and when we find her, we’ll notify the media, it’s obviously complicated and that’s really all I can elaborate on at this time,” he said of the search for the child.

Beasley’s next scheduled court date is Feb. 23, at the Alberta Court of Justice in St. Albert.