Our volunteers who spend literally hundreds of hours a week online, researching and documenting cases involving missing or murdered Aboriginal women, occasionally get the best news when we find out that someone listed on our site as missing has been located.
Words cannot tell how good this makes us feel.
This page is to list those success stories.
Our hope is that this page becomes the largest one on our website.
IF ANYONE FINDS THEIR NAME ON OUR WEBSITE, AND WOULD LIKE THEIR LOVED ONES TO KNOW THEY ARE OK, BUT DO NOT WISH TO MAKE DIRECT CONTACT FOR ANY REASON, PLEASE CONTACT US AND WE WILL NOTIFY YOUR FAMILY WITHOUT REVEALING YOUR WHEREABOUTS. WE WILL HONOUR YOUR CONFIDENTIALITY.
UPDATE: Police inform us that Rebecca Jean King has been located alive.
She had left home, met up with a man and did not notify her family for many years.
After years of abuse, she finally managed to escape with her children and is now reunited with her family.
We wish Cynthia and her family a time of healing, health and happiness.
RENE GABRIELLE SUMMERBELL Reported missing in July of 1979, to 100 Mile House RCMP Detachment. 23 years later, Renee was located at a Saskatchewan hospital recovering from injuries sustained in the house fire.
She has now been reuinited with her family.
We wish Renee and her family a time of healing, health and happiness.
NICOLE WHITEHEAD Reported missing from Ontario in has been located and has been reunited with her family as verified by Child Find in April 2001.
We wish Nicole and her family a time of healing, happiness and health.
BRITTANY MANITOPYES Reported missing in Saskatchewan on January 15. 2003, under suspicious circumstances was located alive and well and returned to family on January 29,2003, as reported to us by Cpl. Brian Jones, RCMP.
We wish Brittany and her family a time of healing, happiness and health.
Samantha and Travis Flett, 14 years old- MISSING FROM WINNIPEG
These two children are legally residing with their father and step mother now. We wish this family a time of healing, happiness and health. We also apologize for any stress having these children on our website may have caused family members while we waited for verification from RCMP.
On June 29, 2006, I received the following email:
(This is just a Complaint Sent to the VPD.RCMP,MLA,MP and newspapers..I have seen your website for a couple of years.
You can put this letter on your website if you want.. I want other familys of the missing women on the list to understand.. that the police are doing nothing. and would rather forget And We CAN NEVER, NEVER FORGET )
I might have a lawyer already, but if you have any input feel free to e-mail me back
Thankyou
Iam the Oldest Son of Mary Florence Lands
Iam Filing a Complaint because
Missing Women Joint Task Force or Missing Women Task Force, Did not do there investigation properly. I was told by two Officers from the Missing Women Task Force, that they had done a search Canada wide for my Mothers S.I.N. Card. And I was lied to. I was also told to give my blood, and the Missing women’s Task Force took my blood sample to match unknown DNA from the Pickton Trial. Even then I told them she had nothing to do with that case.
But did everything possible to try to link it to that case. It has made a lot of traumatic emotions for me. How else was I to feel when they took MY BLOOD. The Vancouver Police Department shouldn’t of classified her as a downtown eastside woman.. I was saying that from day one.. My mother only lived in Vancouver for a short time..And I never lived down town eastside when i was a child..I was in Vancouver just as long as she was. They have tainted her Name... this has cause a lot of Emotional moments... Victim Services was going to Mail out cheque for Compensation for the loss...And had Victim Service worker pressing for a Funeral Service.. FOR CLOSURE... I told them no. But this has been hard on the family.. Just when you find out that everyone is giving up. and want CLOSURE. AND START TO LET GO ...She finds us......And she has been collecting disability for 16 years,,, and has been in contact with Saskatoon Police Department. in 2004..because. there was an incident with Welfare fraud in BC. which was later just a misunderstanding.
I have been lied to.. I have been forced to accept things that weren’t true about my mom .. Before I even new about my mom being a live.. I have felt that the police just gave up.. And just wanted all of us to shut up.. and offer us 5000 for our loss.. then.. When she is found.. they Cancel the Cheques from being sent out....You keep dragging my family through the mud..
I don’t feel like the police can be trusted to do there job.. Because.. I have seen they haven’t..
This is still so overwhelming and emotional....I feel like I have been robed of my life.......Because of the incompetence of the Missing Women’s Task Force
I need more Answers then a Press release.
I have still not had any contact from anyone. Should I be Talking to a Lawyer?
Michael Lands
SK POLICE CONFIRM THAT LEONA SANDERSON HAS BEEN LOCATED, SAFE AND HAS BEEN REUNITED WITH HER FAMILY.
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Women's Memorial Quilt
Dreams/Visions about the Vancouver Missing Women case
Beaded White Ribbons for Sale (FUNDRAISER FOR QUILT)
Fifth Annual Memorial
Success Stories
Toronto's Memorial Nov. 16, 2002
DTES Vancouver Missing Women
Mainland Vancouver women murdered during the same time frame
OTHER LINKS
Sex Trade Workers of Canada
Missing Women Poster
Vancouver Magazine
Toronto Star article, Nov. 30, 2002
America's Most Wanted
State to State Unsolved Crimes
Aboriginal Justice Inquiry
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