Missing Edmonton woman found dead, former partner wanted for 2nd-degree murder

September 17, 2024 Canuck

Police are on the hunt for a man wanted for second-degree murder in the death of an Edmonton woman who was recently reported missing.

The disappearance of 32-year-old Aylissa Rovere was being investigated as a missing person case as of last Friday. Homicide investigators took over the case and police found a body while executing a search warrant at an address in Parkland County over the weekend.

An autopsy completed Monday confirmed the deceased to be Rovere, and the manner of death was determined to be homicide, police said.

Police have not released the cause of death.

Collin Boucher-Gionet, 34, is wanted on warrants for second-degree murder and indignity to a body. The two were in an intimate relationship, police said.

Boucher-Gionet is believed to be in Edmonton, in possession of a stolen white 2011 Dodge Ram 1500 bearing Alberta licence plate CPH 7793, police said.

‘We miss her’

Rovere’s family is reeling from the death, said Aylissa’s brother Christopher Rovere

She was a mother of two teenage children, and the youngest of seven siblings, he said.

She suffered from high anxiety after the death of their father and a previous partner in her teens, Christopher Rovere said, which she managed through singing.

“Even from a little girl, she used to sing Annie. We would record her before phones even were a thing. We had a camcorder,” Christopher Rovere said.

“Singing a lot was really what kept her going, was singing online or doing things like that,” he said.

“We loved her and supported her. We miss her.”

A man and woman smile for a selfie with gaming machines in the background. — Aylissa Rovere, left, with her brother, Christopher Rovere. Christopher said his sister loved singing. (Submitted by Christopher Rovere)

Christopher Rovere said his sister was in a “complicated relationship” with Boucher-Gionet.

The family filed a missing person report after she hadn’t contacted her son for a few days, he said.

“She’s always in contact with her son. So when her son didn’t hear from her for a few days, we knew that something was wrong or something was up.”

Christopher Rovere said the family gathered at his mom’s house on Sunday, where they saw a beautiful rainbow.

“Her son had just arrived before me and when he arrived, a beautiful rainbow appeared. A double rainbow,” Christopher said.

“And I’ll just say that I feel like that was a sign from her with her last tears, that was a rainbow for us to show that she was alright in heaven, and with my father that’s gone before us.”

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