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  • Story of Bernadette Lynda Ahenakew

    Bernadette was a member of the Île-à-la-Crosse Metis Settlement in Saskatchewan. She went missing from Edmonton, Alberta in September 1989 at the age of 22. Her naked remains were discovered in a ditch off a rural road near Sherwood Park, Alberta a month later on October 24th, 1989. No arrest has been made in her case.

  • Story of Betsy Owens

    Betsy Owens, 15, was a sister to three girls when she vanished from Manitoba’s Pauingassi First Nation on Oct. 23, 1988. The lead investigator for the missing persons, foul play suspected case works for the Winnipeg RCMP detachment 170 miles from the First Nation. He last visited the community during summer 2014, and family members do not know if there are leads in the case.

  • Story of Bonnie Jack

    Bonnie Lynn Jack, also known as Bonnie Lynn Loyie, grew up in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. She lived on the streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for more than two decades before moving to Edmonton, Alberta. But several years after moving there, the 37-year-old’s body was discovered in a rural area just east of Edmonton in May 2006. Foul play is suspected. The KARE unit, an RCMP entity that investigates and reviews files of murdered or missing vulnerable persons throughout Alberta, is handling the case.

  • Story of Brandy Vittrekwa

    Brandy Vittrekwa, 17, belonged to a close-knit family and lived with her mother and brother in Whitehorse, Yukon. On Dec. 8, 2014, her body was found on a walking trail in the city. Two months later Whitehorse RCMP told the Vittrekwa family they had someone in custody and in April 2015 a 15-year-old male was charged with second-degree murder in her death. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to two years in jail and one year of community supervision on June 16, 2016.

  • Story of Brenda Campbell

    Brenda Jeanette Campbell, 51, was from Winnipeg but had roots in Duck Bay and Camperville, Man. She had several children and was known as kind, with a strong spirit. On July 7, 2016, Campbell was killed in a house fire. Her death was treated as a homicide. In July 2017, two men, Jonathon Graham Barstad, 34, and Edward Wade Beardy, 35, were charged with second-degree murder and two counts of arson with disregard for life. The police believe the fire was set to target residents who had connections to gangs. Instead the fire claimed the lives of Brenda, who went by the name Jeanette, and another man. They were not the intended victims and neither had ties to gangs.

  • Story of Brandy Wesaquate

    Brandy Wesaquate was 28 when she was last seen leaving a house party in Regina on New Year’s Day in 2012. According to relatives, she was born a man and identifies as a woman. She has had no contact with family or friends since the date of her disappearance.

  • Story of Brittany Bearspaw

    Brittany Bearspaw, 16, was found dead on the Trans-Canada Highway near Morley, Alta. on Jan. 1, 2006. An Alberta medical examiner determined her immediate cause of death as “multiple blunt force injuries” and the manner of death as undetermined. RCMP say it was a hit and run. Her parents, Geraldine Bearspaw and John Sedo, say police told them it might have been suicide. They say RCMP misplaced valuable evidence in the case, but police say there is no mention of that in their file.

  • Story of Brooklyn Moose

    Brooklyn Moose, 25, was found dead on Sept. 11, 2015, inside the home where she had been living in Regina’s North Central neighborhood. Regina police concluded that there is no evidence of foul play or criminal involvement in her death. But Moose’s grandmother, Margaret Moose, is challenging the police findings, saying her granddaughter had changed the locks on her apartment twice in the weeks preceding her death.

  • Story of Barbara Kentner

    Barb Kentner died July 4, 2017 at 5 a.m., surrounded by her family, at St. Joseph’s, a Thunder Bay hospice. In November 2017, Brayden Bushby’s charges were upgraded to second-degree murder, then downgraded to manslaughter in September 2020.

  • Story of Azraya Ackabee-Kokopenace

    Azraya Ackabee-Kokopenace, 14, was found dead on April 17, 2016, a few days after she walked away from a Kenora, Ont., hospital. She had been dropped off by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). A few weeks earlier, she was involved in an altercation with an OPP officer. A coroner’s report is not yet finished, but her father, Marlin Kokopenance, says he was told that she died by suicide. For him, there are too many unanswered questions in her final hours, including why she was allowed to walk away from the hospital.

  • Story of Alice Quoquat Netemegesic

    Alice Quoquat was the mother of five sons and one daughter. She was from the Lac Seul First Nation near Sioux Lookout, Ontario. She was murdered in Thunder Bay in the late 1970s.

  • Story of Ashley Mandamin

    Ashley (Anang Kwe – Star Woman) Mandamin is described in her obituary as the daughter of Dean Jacobs and Mary Lou Mandamin, the mother of a child named Connor, and a beloved sister to Tanya and Tiffany. “Ashley will always be remembered for her caring nature and for the love she held for her son and family,” her obituary noted. Mandamin died on Aug. 2 at just 20 years old.

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