Mourning friends hold vigil at Woodridge for Joan Ryther, brutally murdered in Logan REMEMBERED: The gathering in Woodridge yesterday. MURDERED: Joan Canino Ryther, the Logan woman's body was found just 100m from McDonald's, where she was due to start work at 9pm on Tuesday night. THEY cried for Joan Canino Ryther and for the little boy they'll never meet. Friends of murdered woman Joan Canino Ryther yesterday gathered to grieve for the bubbly Filipino woman who had never - in the four years they'd known her - lost her ever-present smile. Ms Ryther was three months pregnant when she was snatched off the street, bashed, sexually assaulted and dumped half-naked in a garden near her work in Logan Central. At a candlelight vigil near her home, friends gathered to share a minute's silence. They said the 27-year-old had been ecstatic about expecting her and husband Cory's first child, telling friends at the McDonald's restaurant where she worked they were having a boy. "She's a loving person and it's really sad to lose her this way, especially when she was looking forward to having a little boy," said Sandra Siulai, 29, who had worked with Ms Ryther for four years. All her mates from Woodridge Maccas knew she was expecting and excited for this baby. Ms Siulai was one of nearly 80 people who gathered at the vigil at Woodridge train station. Those in the crowd wept as they lit candles and remembered their friend. "We just pray they find justice for you and her family as well," Ms Siulai said. Ms Ryther's devastated family in the Philippines took to social networking sites to express their disbelief. "My sister Joan Canino Ryther was murdered on May 21, 2013, around 8pm, along the street in Logan Central in Brisbane, Australia," her brother Don wrote. He also posted photos of a shrine he set up in her memory, complete with her picture and a tiny pair of baby booties. "Printing this picture of Joan, the lady at the pharmacy said 'I'm not going to charge you for this'," he wrote. Thank you for everyone's understanding. The little boots are for baby ... the flowers are your favourite kind ... the purple candle (is) your favourite colour.