There is one less name on the list of women missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, says a report published on Monday.

The number of missing women, which at one point totalled 69, spurred nationwide debate amid accusations of police and public apathy after Robert William Pickton was charged with killing many of them.

Robert Pickton makes a court appearance in 2003. He goes on trial on the first six counts of first-degree murder in January 2007.
(Canadian Press)

The Vancouver Sun said Monday that Wendy Louise Allen has been found alive and living under an assumed name in Ontario.

Allen was 33 when she went missing in 1979.

She was located in July by the Missing Women Task Force, but asked police to withhold the news.

RCMP spokesman Cpl. Pierre Lemaitre said Allen, now 60, had no desire to be in touch with her relatives in B.C.

The list of missing women now totals 65, as three other women have also been found alive since May 2005.

Pickton has been charged with killing 26 of the missing women, most of them sex-trade workers from the Downtown Eastside.

Those charges followed an extensive search of his pig farm in Port Coquitlam, which began in 2002.

Pickton has pleaded not guilty and goes on trial on the first six counts of first-degree murder in January.

With files from the Canadian Press