A body found near Edmonton was a prostitute with ties to Vancouver, police said Friday. Investigators are treating her death as a homicide.

Bonnie Lynn Jack, 37, was discovered Tuesday in the same rural area where several murdered sex-trade workers have been found in recent years.

"Investigators have learned that (Jack) had connections with both Edmonton and Vancouver that involved a high-risk lifestyle including activities in the sex trade," RCMP Cpl. Wayne Oakes told reporters.

"She had contact with both communities, she frequented both communities. How much time was spent where, I have no knowledge of that."

Police also said Jack, 37, was a mother. They have contacted her family, who police said are too distraught to speak with the media.

Oakes would not say whether police are investigating persons of interest in Jack's murder, or the condition her body was in when found.

He also didn't say how the body was identified, other than that officials performed an autopsy.

"I don't know have the specifics (on the identification), whether it was dental, fingerprints or some other means," he said.

Jack is the 27th Edmonton-area prostitute murdered since 1975. Project Kare, a joint task force with the RCMP that focuses on slain sex-trade workers, is investigating her death.

Oakes said Jack was last in contact with her family about two months ago, although CTV Edmonton's David Ewasuk said neighbours and prostitute's claimed she lived with a boyfriend for at least a year.

Anyone with information on Jack's death are encouraged to phone Crime Stoppers or contact Project Kare officers.

Investigators are currently working on the case of another murdered Edmonton-area prostitute: thirty-six-year-old Theresa Merrie Innes, found north of the city in Fort Saskatchewan, on May 7.

Police charged Thomas George Svekla, 38, of High Level, Alta., with second-degree murder in her death. He's also charged with indecently interfering with a dead body.

Svekla is the first person arrested by Project Kare.

With files from CTV Edmonton's David Ewasuk and The Canadian Press