Missing woman’s remains found near Salmon Arm years after disappearance

A woman’s remains were found in rural Salmon Arm and police have determined she is one of five women who went missing in a short time span back in 2017.

Nicole Crystal Bell was reported missing on Sept. 7, 2017 and she was last seen in Sicamous on Sept. 2, 2017.

Bell’s body was found on March 21, 2025, according to an RCMP media release. When Salmon Arm RCMP confirmed the remains were human, they conducted an expansive, targeted search.

She disappeared alongside five other women in 2017, and her case was taken over by the Major Crime Unit when investigators determined that her disappearance was the result of foul play.. 

“Although it has been established that the disappearance of all five women were not associated to a single serial actor, investigators believe that the primary suspect responsible for Bell’s death is the same as that of Traci Genereaux,” Supt. Sanjaya Wijayakoon said in the release.

Genereaux was reported missing on June 9, 2017 and her body was found after police executed a search warrant on a property in Salmon Arm on Oct. 20, 2017. Genereaux’s remains were found on a Salmon River Road property owned by Curtis Sagmoen’s family in the community of Silver Creek north of Vernon. Sagmoen died in April.

Police don’t think there’s an ongoing threat to public safety since the suspect in the women’s disappearances is dead. RCMP haven’t ruled out the possibility that other people were involved in the deaths of Bell and Genereaux.

Anyone with information about the case has been asked to contact the RCMP Major Crime Unit at 1-877-987-8477.