VANCOUVER -- Police put together descriptions Wednesday of two men believed responsible for the murder of a 40-year-old mother of three who was kidnapped near her home and held for an $8,000 ransom.
The body of Sharon Bollivar, dressed in slacks, a sweater and a duffel coat, was found by a roadside Tuesday on Burnaby Mountain by a woman walking her dog.
Mrs. Bollivar was abducted on a street near the Bollivar's trim suburban home Monday as she returned from walking Melanie, 14, and Patrick, 11, to school. Her youngest child, 9-year-old Sean, was home sick in bed.
'We have a decription of two male suspects but we can't release it because it would be detrimental to our case,' said Staff Sgt. William Howitt of the Burnaby RCMP detachment.
'We have possible suspects but no one in custody. We also have a description of a car Mr. Bollivar thought was following him on two occasions before the abduction but we are not going to release those either at this time. We believe we know where the car is.'
He cautioned that, 'We have no reason to believe the suspects have not left this area.'
Mrs. Bollivar, described by neighbors as a friendly homemaker who was devoted to her close-knit family, died from a shot in the head at close range from a handgun, 10 to 12 hours before her body was found, Vancouver city police Insp. William Baird said.
The woman's 42-year-old husband, Melvin, had been contacted three times by the kidnappers between 11:45 a.m. and 1:20 p.m. local time the day of the abduction, police said, but no final instructions were ever given for the ransom drop.
The woman was apparently slain about 8 p.m., about two hours after a deadline set by abductors for the ransom payment, police said.
The kidnappers had demanded 'the day's receipts' from a Stong's supermarket where Bollivar had recently worked as manager. Total revenues Monday totalled $8,000.
Bollivar, who began working at another Stong's store in West Vancouver the day of the kidnapping, was not aware of his wife's abduction until about 11:45 a.m. Monday when he received a telephone call from her captors. He immediately called Stong's president Bill Rossum, who alerted police.
'I held him on one line while I phoned the police on the other line and that's when the police were notified,' Rossum said.
During one of the three telephone calls made by the kidnappers, Mrs. Bollivar spoke to her husband and assured him she was unharmed.
Baird said there would be a standard review of police actions in the case, but details will not be made public. 'At this particular time, I don't think any errors were made that we're aware of.'
Detectives went door-to-door through the Bollivar's well-kept, middle-class neighborhood Wednesday in hopes of finding a neighbor who could provide them with clues in the abduction.
