Speaker 1: Hello friends, Steve Stockton here with you. Welcome to our
Speaker 1: latest episode. Today, we're going to take a look that's
Speaker 1: some mysterious unsolved Canadian disappearances. Now Canada, with its breathtaking
Speaker 1: wilderness and captivating beauty, has also been a backdrop to
Speaker 1: inexplicable vanishings that continue to baffle investigators, families, and communities.
Speaker 1: As we embark on this exploration, we will uncover stories
Speaker 1: that defy explanation, leaving us with more questions than answers.
Speaker 1: Join me, let's walk and see. First up, we have
Speaker 1: the case of Aaron Derbyshire. Aaron Derbyshire disappeared on September thirtieth,
Speaker 1: two thousand and six, when he was twenty two years old.
Speaker 1: Is originally from Colowna, British Columbia. On September twenty nine,
Speaker 1: Aaron went to the Level nightclub with his friends. The
Speaker 1: club was formerly known as Splash's Nightclub and is located
Speaker 1: at two seventy five Leon Avenue in Kelowna. At one am,
Speaker 1: Aaron's friends left the club to watch a fight while
Speaker 1: he stayed inside. He hasn't been seen since. Aaron's cousin,
Speaker 1: Nicole Hamlin, was interviewed by Info News. According to her,
Speaker 1: she and her brother had planned to meet up with
Speaker 1: Aaron on the night he disappeared, but he did not
Speaker 1: reply to their text messages. Aaron was reported missing when
Speaker 1: he failed to attend a planned rafting trip on the
Speaker 1: night in question. There was no record of any money
Speaker 1: being withdrawn from Aaron's account. Additionally, the cameras at Level
Speaker 1: nightclub were not functioning, meaning there was no footage of
Speaker 1: him leaving the establishment. Despite interviewing nearly three hundred individuals,
Speaker 1: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have not received helpful information
Speaker 1: regarding Aaron's potential whereabouts. Aaron, a young man with a
Speaker 1: promising future ahead of him, had recently graduated from civil
Speaker 1: engineering at o'canagan College. He was in a loving relationship
Speaker 1: with his girlfriend and had plans to get married to her.
Speaker 1: It was highly unusual for Aaron not to return home,
Speaker 1: and there seemed to be no apparent motive for anyone
Speaker 1: to harm him. Aaron is described as a Caucasian male,
Speaker 1: standing around five foot ten inches tall, weighing one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty pounds, with curly brown hair and blue eyes.
Speaker 1: On the day of his disappearance, he was wearing a
Speaker 1: dark blue, possibly plaid pattern, button up shirt and dark jeans.
Speaker 1: Anyone with any information regarding Aaron's whereabouts has asked to
Speaker 1: contact the Kelowna RCMP at two five zero seven six
Speaker 1: to two thirty three hundred, or you could remain anonymous
Speaker 1: by calling crime Stoppers at one eight hundred two two
Speaker 1: two eight four seven seven. If you provide helpful information,
Speaker 1: you could be eligible for a cash reward of up
Speaker 1: to two thousand dollars. Next, we have the case of
Speaker 1: Michael Donahey. Michael Wayne Donahey was born on May twelfth,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. On March
Speaker 1: twenty fourth, nineteen ninety one, when Michael was only four
Speaker 1: years old, he disappeared from the playground at Blanchard Park
Speaker 1: Elementary School in Victoria, BC and has never been seen since.
Speaker 1: Michael was last seen around twelve thirty pm that day
Speaker 1: while playing at the playground as his mother, Crystal, was
Speaker 1: participating in a women's football practice and his father was
Speaker 1: a spectator. Shockingly, he disappeared from right under their noses,
Speaker 1: and no witnesses to his disappearance have ever been identified.
Speaker 1: Michael's disappearance triggered one of the most extensive police investigations
Speaker 1: in Canadian history. Even now, over eleven thousand tips have
Speaker 1: been received by the RCMP. The case was a significant
Speaker 1: news story for several years and was supported across Canada
Speaker 1: and the United States. Despite a large number of tips
Speaker 1: received and a reward of one hundred thousand Canadian dollars,
Speaker 1: the police have yet to find any concrete leads in
Speaker 1: the case. On the day that Michael disappeared, his family
Speaker 1: went to Blanchard Elementary School for his mother, Crystal's flag
Speaker 1: football practice. Michael wore a blue hooded jacket, a teenage
Speaker 1: mutant Ninja Turtle's T shirt, rugby pants, and blue sneakers.
Speaker 1: When they arrived at the school around twelve thirty pm,
Speaker 1: Michael requested his mother's permission to go to the playground,
Speaker 1: which was located near the field where the football practice
Speaker 1: was taking place. Cristel had a gut feeling that something
Speaker 1: was off, but she still let Michael walk alone to
Speaker 1: the playground. She instructed him to wait there until his father,
Speaker 1: Bruce came to get him. However, when Bruce arrived at
Speaker 1: the playground, Michael was nowhere to be found. Concerned around
Speaker 1: fifty people began searching for Michael, while his parents notified
Speaker 1: the police. During that time, the investigation into Michael's disappearance
Speaker 1: became one of the biggest in Canadian history and remained
Speaker 1: as one of the largest today. Since Michael vanished so
Speaker 1: quickly from a public area, the police classified his case
Speaker 1: as an abduction rather than a missing person case. As
Speaker 1: a result, all the detectives from the Victoria Police Department
Speaker 1: were called in to investigate and resolve the case. Hundreds
Speaker 1: of tips came in every hour across British Columbia and
Speaker 1: North America during that time. They had to be written
Speaker 1: on carbon paper and sorted out manually. The police believed
Speaker 1: that the case might have been solved if they had
Speaker 1: video surveillance, DNA and a computer system to sort out tips.
Speaker 1: Detectives investigated known predators and interviewed anyone who was in
Speaker 1: the area around the time Michael went missing. However, they
Speaker 1: couldn't gather much information except for a witness report that
Speaker 1: mentioned a man in his late forties or early fifties
Speaker 1: with a brown van seen near the place. One month
Speaker 1: after Michael's disappearance. The police attempted to recreate the incident
Speaker 1: at Blanchard Elementary using a brown van, but they were
Speaker 1: unable to generate any new leads. In two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: there were reports of a young man resembling Michael who
Speaker 1: had been living in the interior of British Columbia since
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety. However, DNA testing confirmed that the man was
Speaker 1: not Michael. In early two thousand and nine, police in Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: Wisconsin discovered a missing person poster of Michael at the
Speaker 1: home of sixty t Roo of Vernon Sites, who confessed
Speaker 1: to psychiatrist that he had harmed a child in nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty nine, when he was twelve years old. Sites was
Speaker 1: later found and deceased by Milwaukee police, apparently from natural causes.
Speaker 1: In twenty eleven, the police received a tip about a
Speaker 1: man in Chase, BC who resembled Michael. Again, DNA testing
Speaker 1: later confirmed he was not Michael. In twenty thirteen, a
Speaker 1: post was on message board to the official Vancouver Cannuck's
Speaker 1: website by a user who claimed that the police were
Speaker 1: about to conduct a DNA test. Officials required a blood
Speaker 1: sample from a man in Surrey, BC, whom they suspected
Speaker 1: might be Michael. However, on September ninth, after the completion
Speaker 1: of DNA testing, the Victoria PD confirmed that the surreyman
Speaker 1: was not Michael. In twenty twenty, a TikTok user claimed
Speaker 1: to have found the shirt that Michael was wearing when
Speaker 1: he disappeared. The shirt was a rare teenage mutant Ninja
Speaker 1: Turtles shirt found underwater. Michael's family reached out to the
Speaker 1: TikToker after seeing the shirt, only to realize that it
Speaker 1: was not the same shirt that Michael was wearing when
Speaker 1: he disappeared. Many Victoria residents recalled the day of Michael's
Speaker 1: disappearance as a loss of innocence for the city. Fears
Speaker 1: and concerns about child abduction quickly began to rise among parents,
Speaker 1: children and schools in the months after the disappearance. Michael's mother, Crystal,
Speaker 1: became an advocate for missing in British Columbia and has
Speaker 1: served as the president of Child Fine BC. In two
Speaker 1: thousand and two, Crystal outwardly supported the RCMPS called to
Speaker 1: introduce an amber alert system in the province. She believed
Speaker 1: that her son would have been found if such a
Speaker 1: program had existed in nineteen ninety one. Since then, the
Speaker 1: system has been implemented in most regions of Canada. The
Speaker 1: Esquimault community hosts an annual charity event called the Michael
Speaker 1: Donahe Keep the Hope Alive Fund Run. The event is
Speaker 1: organized by Michael's sister, Caitlin, to raise funds for child fine.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, Victoria Police released an h progressed
Speaker 1: sketch of Michael at an online tip portal. Since nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety one, over ten thousand tips have been received, according
Speaker 1: to Police Constable Cam McIntyre. In twenty twenty three, Michael's
Speaker 1: family took to Facebook to say there'd been some posts
Speaker 1: by someone claiming to be Michael, adding some people may
Speaker 1: have even been contacted directly of the supposed online impostor.
Speaker 1: We can confirm he is not, the family wrote. We
Speaker 1: are working closely with the police to ensure he gets
Speaker 1: the help he needs. Please do not engage in conversations
Speaker 1: with him, and most importantly, please do not send him
Speaker 1: money as he was requesting. Thank you for your compassion.
Speaker 1: We're all involved. As of twenty twenty four, Michael's case
Speaker 1: remains open, with both the police and Michael's family remaining
Speaker 1: hopeful for an ultimate resolution. Anyone with any information regarding
Speaker 1: Michael's disappearance or whereabouts as asked to police, contact the Victoria,
Speaker 1: BC Police Department at two five zero nine ninety five
Speaker 1: seven sixty five four and reference case number ninety one
Speaker 1: DASH one three or nine. Next, we have the case
Speaker 1: of Emma Philipoff. Emma Philipoff was born on January sixth,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six. She went missing on November eighth, twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: when she was twenty six years old. She was last
Speaker 1: seen in from the Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia.
Speaker 1: In the fall of twenty eleven, Emma came to Victoria
Speaker 1: from Perth, Ontario. She briefly worked at the Redfish Bluefish
Speaker 1: seafood restaurant in Victoria's Inner Harbor. However, the job was seasonal,
Speaker 1: which led Emma to quit on October thirty one, twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: She promised her colleagues that she would return in the spring. Emma,
Speaker 1: who police believed was preparing to move back to Ontario,
Speaker 1: hired a tow truck on November twenty one to tow
Speaker 1: her nineteen ninety three Mazda MPV to the Chateau Victoria
Speaker 1: parking garage. Emma's family was unaware that she'd been staying
Speaker 1: on and off at the Sandy Merriman House Women's shelter
Speaker 1: since February. On November twenty three, security footage captured Emma
Speaker 1: at the Victoria YMCA. She entered, left and entered again
Speaker 1: multiple times, possibly to avoid someone outside. Before she went missing,
Speaker 1: Emma had called her mother in Ontario multiple times, asking
Speaker 1: if she could come back home. Her tone would dramatically
Speaker 1: shift during each conversation. During their last call, Emma's mother
Speaker 1: discovered that Emma had been staying at the Sandy Merriman House,
Speaker 1: and she promptly arranged to fly out to see her.
Speaker 1: Emma's last words to her mother were quote, I don't
Speaker 1: know how I can face you end quote. Her mother
Speaker 1: arrived at the Sandy Merriman House around eleven pm on
Speaker 1: the twenty eighth. On November twenty eight, Emma was seen
Speaker 1: in a video captured by a seven to eleven store
Speaker 1: on Government Street. She was purchasing a prepaid cell phone
Speaker 1: and appeared hesitant while leaving the store, as if she
Speaker 1: was checking the street outside. Later, Emma returned to the
Speaker 1: seven eleven and bought a prepaid credit card worth two
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. According to reports, she left the Sandy Merriman
Speaker 1: House around six pm on that same day. After that,
Speaker 1: Emma held attack and asked to be taken to the
Speaker 1: Victoria International Airport. However, she could not pay the fare
Speaker 1: and had to exit the cab although she had the
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars prepaid card. Emma was spotted walking barefoot
Speaker 1: in front of the Infras Hotel. A person named Dennis
Speaker 1: Quay called nine one one to report that the woman
Speaker 1: was in severe distress outside the hotel. When the Victoria
Speaker 1: police arrived, they spoke to Emma for forty five minutes
Speaker 1: and took her name. They released her after determining she
Speaker 1: was not a threat to herself or anyone else. However,
Speaker 1: no one reported seeing her after eight pm that night
Speaker 1: until her report surfaced in June twenty eighteen. Later that evening,
Speaker 1: the police met Emma's mother at Sandy Merriman House, and
Speaker 1: by midnight, Emma was classified as a missing person. On
Speaker 1: September twenty eighth, twenty twelve, Emma was last seen near
Speaker 1: the Infras Hotel in Victoria between seven to fifteen pm
Speaker 1: and eight pm. Victoria police had interviewed her before she disappeared.
Speaker 1: Her read nineteen ninety three Mazda MPV, which contained almost
Speaker 1: all her belongings, such as her passport, library card, digital camera, clothes,
Speaker 1: a pillow, assorted ornaments, a laptop and recently barred library books,
Speaker 1: was found in the Chateau Victoria parking lot. Is believed
Speaker 1: that she had been using the van as storage. She
Speaker 1: had spoken to Chateau Victoria staff at seven am on
Speaker 1: the morning of her disappearance. At first, the police announced
Speaker 1: that Emma was quote last seen with friends several blocks
Speaker 1: away on Verdett Avenue between Blanchard and Quadra Streets end quote.
Speaker 1: The investigators followed over two hundred leads but found very
Speaker 1: little information. Although most evidence indicated that Emma was planning
Speaker 1: to return to her home in Ottawa, there was no
Speaker 1: concrete proof that she ever left Victoria. Additionally, the cell
Speaker 1: phone she bought was never activated. According to reports, credit
Speaker 1: card belonging to Emma was discovered near the Wan de
Speaker 1: Fuca Community Center, which is located north of where she
Speaker 1: went missing. The card was found by a stranger who
Speaker 1: used it to buy cigarettes. The police traced the purchase
Speaker 1: made by the stranger in twenty thirteen, Emma's disappearance was
Speaker 1: featured on an episode of the television program The Fifth Estate.
Speaker 1: Emma wrote poems about her time in Victoria. None of
Speaker 1: them indicated that she was being stalked, even though some
Speaker 1: of them did suggest that she was depressed. Experts who
Speaker 1: appeared on the Fifth Estate said the writing did not
Speaker 1: have the hallmarks of self harm. According to Emma's mother, however,
Speaker 1: the Sandy Merriman staff claimed that Emma quote required both
Speaker 1: physical and medical intervention end quote. The Campbell River Courrier
Speaker 1: Islander newspaper reported in May twenty fourteen, the Gastown, Vancouver
Speaker 1: business owners Joel and Laurie Sellen witnessed a man in
Speaker 1: a green shirt throwing out a twenty five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: missing person's reward poster for Emma in their store. The
Speaker 1: Parrot reported that the man said, quote, it's one of
Speaker 1: those missing person posters, except she's not missing. She's my
Speaker 1: girlfriend and she ran away because she hates her parents.
Speaker 1: End quote. The owners immediately called the police. In twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: Emma's case was also profiled on the podcast The Vanished.
Speaker 1: In June twenty eighteen, a man reported that he had
Speaker 1: picked up a young woman matching Emma's description in nearby
Speaker 1: Esquimaux on the morning following her disappearance. The woman seemed
Speaker 1: distressed and her behavior matched that of Emma. As a
Speaker 1: result of this report, a search of the View Royal
Speaker 1: area of Victoria was organized in December twenty eighteen. Despite
Speaker 1: the search, no additional clues were found. However, another search
Speaker 1: was planned for twenty nineteen in hopes of finding new leads.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, Emma's disappearance was featured on the night
Speaker 1: Time podcast. This series includes interviews with her mother, Shelley,
Speaker 1: and many of her closest friends. On November twenty ninth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, which this was the ninth anniversary of
Speaker 1: her disappearance, the police released some additional images of Emma
Speaker 1: and also some pictures of the art she created in
Speaker 1: hope of generating new leads. In November twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: the police shared an aged progression photo of Emma, again
Speaker 1: aiming to create fresh leads. In November twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: a new initiative to find the Green Shirt Man was launched,
Speaker 1: including a police sketch of the man. In twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: he was caught on security camera at a Gastown, Vancouver store. Earlier,
Speaker 1: he told another store owner that the woman in the
Speaker 1: fine Emma poster who's holding was not missing and that
Speaker 1: she was his girlfriend. The store owner immediately called the police.
Speaker 1: Victoria Police now wished to contact the man. As of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, Emma remains missing. Emma's described as a
Speaker 1: Caucasian female, standing five foot five inches tall and weighing
Speaker 1: about one hundred pounds. She has medium to light brown
Speaker 1: hair and brown eyes. When last seen, she was wearing
Speaker 1: cameo pants, a knitted hat, and carrying an orange purse.
Speaker 1: Anyone with any information regarding him's disappearance or whereabouts is
Speaker 1: asked to contact the Victoria Police Department non emergency line
Speaker 1: at two five zero nine ninety five seven sixty five
Speaker 1: four for your local police department. Information can also be
Speaker 1: submitted anonymously as a Crime Stoppers tip. Next, we have
Speaker 1: the case of Nicole Morin. Nicole Louise Morn was an
Speaker 1: eight year old girl born on April oneh nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 1: She was the only child of Arthur and Jeanette Morin,
Speaker 1: who had been married for twelve years before her birth
Speaker 1: In July nineteen eighty five. Nicole lived with her mother
Speaker 1: in a penthouse apartment on the twentieth floor in the
Speaker 1: Ectobicoke borough of Toronto, while her father lived in Massagua.
Speaker 1: Nicole was enjoying her summer vacation from Wellsworth Junior School,
Speaker 1: where she was in the third grade. Nichole was a
Speaker 1: cheerful child who enjoyed spending time with her friends. On
Speaker 1: July thirty, nineteen eighty five, at approximately ten thirty am,
Speaker 1: Nicole went to the lobby to collect the mail. She
Speaker 1: then returned to her apartment to prepare for a planned
Speaker 1: swim date with a friend. The pool was located at
Speaker 1: the back of their building complex. Before leaving her apartment,
Speaker 1: she spoke to her friend via the intercom and said
Speaker 1: she would meet her in the lobby shortly. Nicole left
Speaker 1: her apartment around eleven am wearing a peach colored one
Speaker 1: piece bathing suit, a green hair band, and red canvas shoes.
Speaker 1: She carried a plastic bag containing a white T shirt,
Speaker 1: green and white shorts, suntent lotion, a hair brush, a
Speaker 1: peach colored blanket, and a purple beach towel. After fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes Nicholl's friend buzzed her apartment to asked why she
Speaker 1: had not met her yet. Nicholl's mother, Jeanette, who was
Speaker 1: busy taking care of small children in their daycare group,
Speaker 1: assumed that Nicole had gone to the pool alone and
Speaker 1: was playing with other children at the back of the complex.
Speaker 1: She did not call the police to report Nicole missing
Speaker 1: until around three pm. The police. This investigation initially involved
Speaker 1: active searches and canvassing all the apartments in the complex.
Speaker 1: On the first day, the police set up roadblocks around
Speaker 1: the building and used vehicles with public address systems to
Speaker 1: alert the neighborhood residents about the missing child's description. The
Speaker 1: police knocked on every door in Nicoll's four hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty nine unit complex and entered apartments even if no
Speaker 1: one answered the knock. After a woman who lived in
Speaker 1: the building identified Nicole from a photograph, the police determined
Speaker 1: that Nicole had traveled down the elevator and entered the lobby. However,
Speaker 1: no other evidence was found regarding Nicole's whereabouts from there.
Speaker 1: The following day, more officers from the Toronto Police Service
Speaker 1: were deployed to assist in the search. A police drive
Speaker 1: net including mounted equestrians, marine units, helicopters and foot patrols
Speaker 1: started scouring the area near the apartment building and Highway
Speaker 1: twenty seven. Tracking dogs were also brought in to explore
Speaker 1: the buildings, underground garages, utility rooms, storage units, and some
Speaker 1: pump rooms. Baber remembered seeing an unidentified blonde woman with
Speaker 1: a notebook on the floor of Nicole's apartment building about
Speaker 1: forty five minutes before her disappearance. The police tried to
Speaker 1: find her as a potential witness, but they could not
Speaker 1: identify her and no one came forward claiming to be her.
Speaker 1: Over nine hundred residents from the neighborhood participated in the
Speaker 1: search for Nicole. The newly established Toronto Crimestoppers took on
Speaker 1: the case as their first significance. They offered a one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars reward, created posters, and produced a video reenactment
Speaker 1: of Nicole's last known movements, which aired on television a
Speaker 1: few weeks later. The Toronto Star published six thousand copies
Speaker 1: of a poster that displayed Nicole's picture and the phone
Speaker 1: number of the Metro Toronto Police. Additionally, the Toronto Police
Speaker 1: created three thousand copies of a watercolor sketch of Nicole,
Speaker 1: which were distributed to police departments, post offices, and local stores.
Speaker 1: Staff Sergeant Madeline Treader said the search for Nicole was
Speaker 1: quote the largest or a missing person in Toronto police
Speaker 1: history end quote. The police formed a twenty member task
Speaker 1: force that worked tirelessly for nine months, investing twenty five
Speaker 1: thousand hours in pursuing leads. By November, the questioned around
Speaker 1: six thousand individuals. The first year of the investigation cost
Speaker 1: an estimated one point eight million dollars. Additionally, the police
Speaker 1: offered a one hundred thousand dollars reward for Nicole's safe return,
Speaker 1: which remains valid today. Police cleared all family members and acquaintances.
Speaker 1: An unexplained note was found in the apartment, which Nicole
Speaker 1: had written in pencil a few months earlier, stating quote,
Speaker 1: I'm going to disappear end quote. Police were unsure of
Speaker 1: the significance of what Nicole had written, as kids that
Speaker 1: age often write all sorts of things, authority, said Art Moran.
Speaker 1: Nicole's father defied the police advice and raised funds to
Speaker 1: hire a private investigator to search for his missing daughter
Speaker 1: in both Canada and the United States. Even left his
Speaker 1: job to set up an office to aid in the search.
Speaker 1: After Nichol's disappearance, Art moved back in with Jeanette, but
Speaker 1: they eventually separated in nineteen eighty seven. Janette also tried
Speaker 1: to locate her daughter by consulting a psychic in Calgary.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and one, Toronto Crimestoppers circulated an agent
Speaker 1: Hans picture Nicole via the Internet to more than one
Speaker 1: thousand crime Stoppers programs in seventeen countries. The picture depicted
Speaker 1: her as a woman in her mid twenties. Childfind Ontario
Speaker 1: has also worked to keep public awareness of the case
Speaker 1: alive by displaying Nicole's picture, physical description, and agent hands
Speaker 1: photographs on electronic screens and s gas stations, billing envelopes
Speaker 1: from Rogers Cable and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce,
Speaker 1: Toronto Transit Commission display screens, and on the back of
Speaker 1: transport trucks. In two thousand and four, researchers for a
Speaker 1: Belgian organization announced that they attentively matched photographs from Nicoles
Speaker 1: seen on a Canadian police website with pictures on a
Speaker 1: Dutch website. It advocates for missing and exploited children using
Speaker 1: biometrical analysis. The researchers claimed a strong resemblance between Nicole
Speaker 1: and a child in zandfort. Several video reenactments of Nicole's
Speaker 1: last movements have been produced, including a re enactment for
Speaker 1: gta's Most Wanted in two thousand and seven. On the
Speaker 1: twenty ninth anniversary of her disappearance. In twenty fourteen, the
Speaker 1: Toronto Police Video Unit made another reenactment, which was also
Speaker 1: screened at Max convenience stores throughout Ontario. In twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: the Toronto Police organized a five k run called Nicole's
Speaker 1: Run in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of her disappearance.
Speaker 1: The event included a candlelight vigil at Centennial Park in
Speaker 1: a Tobacoke. The purpose of the run was to raise
Speaker 1: awareness of the case and collect donations for the Canadian
Speaker 1: Center for Child Protection, which operates a missing Child website.
Speaker 1: The run was successful in raising three thousand dollars in
Speaker 1: donations for the cause. In twenty nineteen, the Toronto Police's
Speaker 1: Missing Person Unit released an agent hands picture of Nicole
Speaker 1: on the thirty fourth anniversary of her disappearance, showing what
Speaker 1: she may have looked like in her early forties. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, a woman came forward and claimed that she
Speaker 1: had spotted Nicole at a nearby park on the day
Speaker 1: her disappearance. The witness was only twelve years old at
Speaker 1: the time and was asked why she had waited so
Speaker 1: long to come forward. She explained that the man she
Speaker 1: saw when the coal had also harmed her before, so
Speaker 1: she was afraid to report the lead. The police showed
Speaker 1: interest in this lead and investigated the park with cadaver dogs.
Speaker 1: They excavated an area where the dogs detected a hint,
Speaker 1: but their persistent efforts have yet to lead them closer
Speaker 1: to uncovering what happened to Nicole. Art Moran, speaking to
Speaker 1: The Toronto Star in twenty ten, said quote, when Nicole disappeared,
Speaker 1: honestly believed we would be able to find her. I
Speaker 1: cannot help but keep my hope that she will service
Speaker 1: again one day. Nicole's mother, Jeannette, passed away in two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven. Despite years of investigations and thousands of leads,
Speaker 1: no physical evidence has been uncovered to solve the disappearance.
Speaker 1: At the time her disappearance, Nicole was four feet tall
Speaker 1: and weighed fifty one pounds. She has brown hair and
Speaker 1: brown eyes. Anyone with any information regarding Nicole's disappearance or
Speaker 1: current whereabouts is asked to contact the Toronto Police at
Speaker 1: four one six eight zero eight twenty two hundred, or
Speaker 1: you can call Crime Stoppers anonymously at one eight hundred
Speaker 1: two two two eight four seven seven. And finally, the
Speaker 1: case of Lisa Marie Young. Twenty one year old Lisa
Speaker 1: Marie Young was born on May fifth, nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 1: in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. She was the eldest child
Speaker 1: and only daughter of Don Young and Marlene Joanne Martin.
Speaker 1: She had two younger brothers, Brian and Robin. Lisa had
Speaker 1: a close relationship with her family. Her mother described her
Speaker 1: as a hard working and independent woman with a strong
Speaker 1: personality and inner strength that was truly remind arkable. Dallas Hulley,
Speaker 1: an acquaintance of Lisa and the last person to hear
Speaker 1: from her, described her as outgoing, confident, and bubbly. He
Speaker 1: further said that her ara made her stand out at
Speaker 1: a gathering or a party. Lisa was a fitness enthusiast
Speaker 1: and a vegetarian who enjoyed rollerblading at the waterfront. Lisa
Speaker 1: and her roommate used to live in an apartment building
Speaker 1: on Baron's Road next to her parents. However, at the
Speaker 1: time of Lisa's disappearance, her father was helping her move
Speaker 1: into a new apartment in northern Nanaimo, which she was
Speaker 1: very excited about. Lisa was getting ready to start a
Speaker 1: job at a call center within two days of her disappearance.
Speaker 1: She had plans to pursue higher education become a television
Speaker 1: sports broadcaster. On June twenty nine, two thousand and two,
Speaker 1: Lisa left her parents' house at eleven pm to go
Speaker 1: to a night club with several friends. Her parents found
Speaker 1: it strange since Lisa had a busy schedule for the week.
Speaker 1: Lisa and Hully were invited to a house party by
Speaker 1: a man who offered them a ride in his red
Speaker 1: older model. They accepted the offer and went to the party. Later,
Speaker 1: they went to the second house party in the Cather's
Speaker 1: Lake area of Nanaimo. When Lisa became hungry, the driver
Speaker 1: offered to take her to get some food. At around
Speaker 1: four thirty am, Lisa called Holy's cell phone. In the interview,
Speaker 1: Holly said quote it was Lisa on her cell phone.
Speaker 1: She said, Dallas, I don't know what's going on. This
Speaker 1: guy won't bring me back. We're sitting in a driveway
Speaker 1: on Bowen Road and he won't bring me back. She added,
Speaker 1: I'm bored. I'm getting mad. End quote. The final signal
Speaker 1: from Lisa's cell phone was traice to the Departure Bay
Speaker 1: area of Nanaimo. On July one, two thousand and two.
Speaker 1: Lisa's parents failed to hear from her. At first, they
Speaker 1: thought it was possible Lisa was too busy to answer
Speaker 1: her cell phone, but grew concerned when Lisa's former roommate
Speaker 1: visited to ask about her whereabouts. After calling every phone
Speaker 1: number in her phone book, Lisa's parents contacted the RCMP
Speaker 1: Detachment Nanaimo. Lisa's parents were initially told to call when
Speaker 1: she had been missing for over forty eight hours. However,
Speaker 1: an RCMP officer came over to the young's household later
Speaker 1: that evening to ask questions and get a photograph of Lisa.
Speaker 1: Lisa's mother did not initially tell the police that Lisa
Speaker 1: was Indigenous because she was afraid that the report would
Speaker 1: not be taken seriously due to stereotypes. A few days later,
Speaker 1: the RCMP told Lisa's parents that their Serious Crime Unit
Speaker 1: was investigating her disappearance. Police concluded that foul play was
Speaker 1: likely involved, and several searches were conducted in remote areas
Speaker 1: in and near Nanaimo, revealing nothing. On July three, two
Speaker 1: thousand and two, Lisa's family contacted the local media. The
Speaker 1: following day, the story was on the front page of
Speaker 1: the Nanaimo Daily News. The story was in the news
Speaker 1: in Victoria the next day and province wide by the
Speaker 1: following week. Lisa's father's employer printed thousands of missing person posters,
Speaker 1: which the companyse delivery drivers distributed to businesses across the
Speaker 1: Vancouver Island. Within days, posters were visible at most island
Speaker 1: stores and businesses. Lisa's extended family and First Nations members
Speaker 1: put up a reward of eleven five hundred dollars for
Speaker 1: information about the case. In late July two thousand and two,
Speaker 1: police questioned the driver of the Jaguar. The RCMP took
Speaker 1: Lisa's mother to a short meeting with the driver. She
Speaker 1: later stated that she asked the man to tell her
Speaker 1: where her daughter was, and he replied, quote I can't.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I don't mean to disrespect your family. End quote.
Speaker 1: The man was eventually released and no charges were brought forth.
Speaker 1: Police later stated, quote the driver, like many others involved
Speaker 1: in this file, is simply a person of interest end quote.
Speaker 1: The Jaguar was eventually located, seized by the RCMP for inspection,
Speaker 1: and later released. It was determined that the car was
Speaker 1: owned by the driver's grandmother, who subsequently sold the vehicle
Speaker 1: and threatened to sue overtalk that could implicate her grandson
Speaker 1: in the disappearance between July and December two thousand and two.
Speaker 1: Dissatisfied with police efforts on the case, Lisa's grandfather organized
Speaker 1: the tribal Search and Rescue into several massive search efforts
Speaker 1: and multiple locations in Nanaimo and other communities. Search teams
Speaker 1: comprised up to thirty volunteers and divers who searched a
Speaker 1: reservoir at Colliery Dam Park. Search has occurred between July
Speaker 1: and December two thousand and two, and in the spring
Speaker 1: and summer of two thousand and three. The family contacted
Speaker 1: Lisa's bank and cell phone provider and determined that the
Speaker 1: account had funds but no activity. The final signal from
Speaker 1: Lisa's phone was sent from the Departure Bay area of Nanaimo.
Speaker 1: After Lisa went missing, her extended family received calls from
Speaker 1: unknown numbers. Within two weeks, the callers claimed to have
Speaker 1: found Lisa's remains in Landsville, nearby town. The RCMP later
Speaker 1: confirmed that similar rumors had appeared on various online chat sites.
Speaker 1: A week later, new rumors service that Lisa's remains had
Speaker 1: been found in Ladysmith, another nearby town. In August two
Speaker 1: thousand and three, the RCMP issued a statement refuting these
Speaker 1: claims as faults. They explained that these rumors were causing
Speaker 1: much distress for Lisa's family. In two thousand and three,
Speaker 1: a one year vigil was held for Lisa. After that,
Speaker 1: Lisa's mother was contacted by psychic Christine Brandt. Brant provided
Speaker 1: some new information that led Lisa's family to ask Terry
Speaker 1: Tom and Andrew Jackson to search the reservoirs at Colliery
Speaker 1: Dam Park. The park is located between Nanaimo Lakes Road
Speaker 1: and Harewood Mines Road. A private dive team conducted a
Speaker 1: subaqueous search at the park on July twenty five, two
Speaker 1: thousand and three. The owner and staff of Jungle Cabaret
Speaker 1: generously donated a considerable amount of care ash to the
Speaker 1: search fund. Additionally, they offered to provide the use of
Speaker 1: a billboard near Petroglyph Park to support the cause. In
Speaker 1: two thousand and three, another billboard was installed on the
Speaker 1: side of the Foundry pub. An announcement came in May
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine that a crime Stoppers re enactment
Speaker 1: video would be produced jointly by Crime Stoppers and Shaw TV.
Speaker 1: Nanaimo RCMP spokesman Constable Garry O'Brien said, quote, we're hoping
Speaker 1: somebody may remember something. We're hoping it generates discussion end quote.
Speaker 1: For several months, beginning in December twenty nineteen, billboard advertising
Speaker 1: space was rended alongside the Island Highway near Nanous Bay
Speaker 1: with prominent signage stating Lisa Marie Young missing brown eyes
Speaker 1: by four tattoo flower band on right arm called Nanaimo RCMP.
Speaker 1: Funding for the rental and signage was raised through private
Speaker 1: sales of beaded Red Dress pins and earrings handmade by
Speaker 1: Voluntaris of the Little Red Dress Project. In December twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: the RCMP in Nanaimo conducted searches. The search has occurred
Speaker 1: at two locations in Nanaimo and part of the Morel
Speaker 1: Nature Sanctuary. One of the locations searched was a residential
Speaker 1: property adjacent to Morrel Sanctuary in less than two hundred
Speaker 1: meters away from Colliery Dams Upper Reservoir. In June twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, the Nanaimo RCMP hosted a press conference on
Speaker 1: the front steps to quote provide an update on the
Speaker 1: status of the Lisa Marie Young missing person investigation end quote.
Speaker 1: RCMP corporate Marcus Muntner reported that based on new and
Speaker 1: historical information, numerous searches for release that took place, utilizing
Speaker 1: ground penetrating radar and a police dog, and he said
Speaker 1: additional searches at undisclosed locations were planned. In February twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, an anonymous American donor offered a US fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars reward for any information our CMP Constable Hailey
Speaker 1: Pinfold said, investigators quote hope this might be enough to
Speaker 1: encourage some people to bring those final pieces forward end quote.
Speaker 1: Police have stated that they believed that finding Lisa's remains
Speaker 1: would be the break they need and call the reward
Speaker 1: offer significantly important. Despite receiving fifteen thousand documents and hundreds
Speaker 1: of witnesses in Lisa's file. Police have made no rests
Speaker 1: in connection to her disappearance. Lisa is described as an
Speaker 1: Indigenous female five foot four inches tall, one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was
Speaker 1: last seen wearing a black shirt, skirt, boots, and a
Speaker 1: silver hooped necklace. Anyone with any information regarding Lisa's disappearance
Speaker 1: or whereabouts is asked to contact the Coquitlam RCMP at
Speaker 1: six zero four nine four five one five five zero. Well, friends,
Speaker 1: there you have it. What do you think of these mysterious,
Speaker 1: unsolved connect Adian disappearances? As always, look forward to your comments,
Speaker 1: but please keep it friendly and respectful. Until we meet again.
Speaker 1: Be good to yourselves and each other. Stay safe out there.
Speaker 1: As for me, I'll see you a little further on
Speaker 1: down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton and I'll talk to
Speaker 1: you next time. And please tell your animals I said hi,