Canada BRAYLEE BEASLEY: Missing from St. Albert, AB - December 2025 - Age 9 months (1 Viewer)

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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Missing baby feared dead after mom’s remains found in St. Albert apartment | Globalnews.ca

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.

 

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Lawyer appointed for Christopher Beasley in St. Albert murder case​

A Nunavut man charged with one count of second-degree murder and two counts of indignity to a body has secured legal representation.


Beasley is accused in connection with the death of Ayla Egotik-Learn, 23, whose remains were found in a St. Albert apartment in late January. RCMP say her nine-month-old daughter, Braylee Beasley, is missing and presumed dead.

The case was adjourned for four weeks to allow his lawyer, Alexandra Seaman of DDSG Criminal Law, to obtain and review disclosure. The case is scheduled to return to court on March 23 in St. Albert.

 

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Grandmother hopes RCMP find missing infant granddaughter’s body | Globalnews.ca

In January, RCMP delivered heart-wrenching news: Andrea Egotik's daughter had been killed and her granddaughter was missing. Months later, the baby still hasn't been found.

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Grandmother hopes RCMP find missing infant granddaughter’s body​

For Andrea Egotik, 2026 has been an exceptionally difficult year. In January, RCMP came to her Nunavut home to deliver heart-wrenching news. Her daughter had been killed.

“I wake up crying. I go to bed crying,” she said. “I just want my honey and my Ingu.”

In Andrea’s culture, Ingu means grandchild.

In late January, the body of Andrea’s 23-year-old daughter, Ayla Egotik-Learn, was found in her St. Albert apartment.

RCMP say she’d been dead since early December.

Her remains were only discovered after a property manager, conducting an eviction, reported a suspicious package inside the unit.

But even after combing the apartment, RCMP could not find Ayla’s nine-month old daughter, Braylee.

“My honey. She was so happy to finally be a mom. My Ingu was her world,” Andrea explained.


Last July, Beasley pleaded guilty to assaulting Ayla between mid-February and at the end of April. He was sentenced to 18 months of probation.

He was also charged twice last year with threatening to kill Ayla, but both charges were later withdrawn.

RCMP say Ayla’s death was a case of domestic violence.

Thirty-three-year-old Beasley was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and indignity to a body.


Andrea adds nobody reported Ayla missing, because they were getting text messages from someone pretending to be Ayla — for more than a month after RCMP say she died.

She believes Beasley was sending those messages.

“I am so mad. I didn’t know it wasn’t my honey,” she explained.

Andrea sent Global News text messages from Christmas, and as recently as Jan. 15, showing someone impersonating Ayla.


RCMP declined to provide an update on the case.

Andrea just keeps hoping they’ll call and tell her they’ve found her Ingu.

She knows that’s what her daughter would want.

“I’ve also had a dream of Ayla. She was standing alone,” she said, “and she cradled her arms and then unfolded her arms. She gestured, ‘Where?’ Like she was asking, where is her baby?”

A GoFundMe has been started to help cover urn and cremation costs, as well as flights from Nunavut to Edmonton.

Finding Braylee could help provide the closure their family needs.

“I want justice for both of them… They should still be here today.”

 

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Beyond Local: BREAKING: Search focuses on garbage bin for infant in St. Albert homicide case

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BREAKING: Search focuses on garbage bin for infant in St. Albert homicide case​

The Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit is continuing its investigation into the homicide of 23-year-old Ayla Egotik-Learn and the search for the remains of her daughter Braylee Beasley.

In a RCMP press release from Tuesday, March 31, RCMP said they believe Braylee’s remains may have been placed in a waste disposal bin outside Door 11 of the Sturgeon Point Villas Apartments sometime between mid‑September and mid‑November 2025. They believe she was five-months old at the time of her death.

Investigators are now working to confirm that timeframe and are urging anyone who may have deposited large bedroom furniture in the bin during that period to contact police. RCMP say knowing when that furniture went into the bin could help identify a search site.

The Alberta RCMP has created a tip line and QR code for information relating to this investigation. Anyone with information with respect to the disposal of the large bedroom furniture is asked to call the RCMP at 403-420-4900.