Turner said her son was last seen around 6 p.m. Tuesday in the yard of the family home where he lives with her, father Tom Martens, and his sisters, aged six and seven.
Chase had been in the yard with his dad, who had been loading his truck. Father and son went for a ride to the store and returned.
The father dressed Chase in his boots, splash pants, hat and mitts, and the boy went outside as his dad went inside. The girls were inside watching TV.
Chases mother last saw her son through the window as she got ready to cook supper.
The boy was heading around the side of the house, and Turner thought he was going to hop on a tractor parked outside the home, something he likes to do.
When the parents went outside to call Chase to come in for supper, there was no response.
Her active and happy son has never wandered off, Turner said.
"Hes outside all the time, and I will call him once and hell go, What!" Turner said, adding her son never strayed past a wood pile in their yard.
Usually, the pets follow Chase, but their cats and their dog, Bingo, were lying on the ground outside the house.
Turner said she searched the dirt road that leads to the house and scanned the surrounding fields. When she reached the main road, she called to Chase, but there was no response.
"Thats when the panic started to sink in," she said.
Turner ran back to her property where Tom was calling to Chase as he searched the bush.
She said it had been no longer than 15 minutes from the time she saw Chase through the window until they rechchalized he wasnt there.
Turner called her sister, who advised her to call the fire department, which she did and the response was quick.
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I haven't seen anyone say that they are better parents, only that this was preventable. I've also seen a lot of compassion.
They haven't found the hat; that's what won't leave my mind. When my sister and I were younger, you couldn't keep a hat on us for more than two minutes without us taking them off. The kids where I work are just the same.
They haven't found the hat. That baffles me.
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The search for Chase Martens: Wind, snow hinder expanded efforts
No bit of information should be considered insignificant, the RCMP say.
"The entire country right now is thinking of this little boy. We are doing the same," Paquet added. "If anyone has any kind of information that the question whether or not it should be shared with us, give us a call."
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Not only is it hard sometimes to keep a hat on a little kid's head, or for some, to take a favorite hat off, but boots always seem to be the first to slide or be kicked off. imo.
And with hypothermia,you feel hot and tend to take clothes off and discard them.I feel that the creek is where he'll be found.He knew his way down that path.Maybe the dog did follow Chase to the creek and turned back when he couldn't follow him in the water.So sad.....
The creek looks thawed in pictures and flowing,but I can't say for sure.I haven't seen this mentioned but with temperatures so low at the time he went missing (sub zero I believe), wasn't the creek frozen?
I may have missed those. I know for myself, I withheld any judgment, then couldn't help but be frustrated when I heard a two year old was alone for ~15 minutes outdoors. Doesn't mean I think I'm a better parent, or that I sympathize any less with the parents. It just means I'm frustrated that it potentially could have been prevented, no judgment on my part because I make tons of mistakes myself, daily. I stopped thinking about it pretty quickly because my frustration doesn't change anything, and it sure wouldn't for Chase or his parents. I know you weren't speaking to me, necessarily, and maybe I missed the big judgments, but it's hard not to be frustrated at that particular fact-- and I understand why people would voice that frustration, particularly when many have asked if it's normal to leave a 2 year old unattended outdoors for that kind of time. To most, it's decidedly abnormal.That seems to be the message from some![]()
They haven't found the hat; that's what won't leave my mind. When my sister and I were younger, you couldn't keep a hat on us for more than two minutes without us taking them off. The kids where I work are just the same.
They haven't found the hat. That baffles me.
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