The sister of a recent Winnipeg murder victim wants to see a new device mandated before anyone else is killed.

According to Camille Runke’s sister, Maddie Laberge, Camille did everything she could to evade the man she married.

"He just did little things telling her I'm following you, I'm around you, I'm making you uncomfortable, and I'm going to keep doing it," said Laberge Friday evening.

Despite a protection order, Kevin Runke's torment wouldn't stop.

"He knew her route to work and scattered nails on the road, he went to her workplace and stuck nails up in mud where she parks."

October 30, Camille was shot and killed outside her St. Boniface workplace. Days later, her estranged husband shot and killed himself.

Laberge said her sister's killing has compelled her to help protect other women. She wants violent offenders to wear ankle bracelets with GPS technology.

“We were thinking what could someone have possibly done?,” she said. “In his case, this [ankle bracelet] may have worked."

Maddie Laberge statement on ankle bracelets:

“I’m not suggesting that someone suspected of stalking gets fitted with an ankle bracelet. That was never my intention. When an individual has a protection order against them, we need to look at this individual’s history. In this particular case, Kevin Runke had a history of unaccepted and dangerous behaviour. The facts are that two other women had filed for protection orders against Kevin. They were scared of his behaviour. The past protection order on Kevin Runke before my sister Camille, clearly did not deter him from continuing to stalk women. He proved he was incapable of abiding by the law. Given facts such as these, I believe a person forfeits some of their rights. The consideration of an ankle bracelet to monitor such individuals with this type of history may be lifesaving for the victim, and that is my position on this.”

Laberge said her sister was fun loving, adventurous and full of life. “She was only 49 years old, but in those 49 years, she probably lived more life than most people live until a grand old age,” she said. “She had a good life.”

Justice Minister Gord Mackintosh said the province is studying ankle bracelets in domestic violence cases. "We are going to do our due diligence, we're going to look at the idea, the pros and cons and explore this fully," he said.

But University of Winnipeg criminologist Kevin Walby said the technology is unreliable, can only be granted by a judge, and requires extensive resources to monitor, and said stalking may be beyond a criminal issue.

"Maybe it’s a mental health issue, maybe if there were mental health responders, the outcome would be a lot different,” said Walby.

Maddie Laberge believes if Kevin wore a bracelet, police would have had evidence to charge him. "If he was the right person to put it on, I don't think he would have kept stalking her because he couldn't have, they [the police] would have caught him stalking her."

Laberge said if the ankle bracelet idea isn’t the right one, she hopes her idea will spark conversation to find solutions to domestic violence and stalking.

Macintosh said ankle bracelets are one of 100 ideas submitted by the public to The Domestic Violence and Stalking Act Survey.

The province will collect responses until November 27.