CANADA Canada - Jennifer Catcheway, 18, Winnipeg, MB, 19 June 2008

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http://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Manitoba/2008/07/05/6071476-sun.html

Family won't give up
Woman, 18, disappeared on birthday


PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE -- The search continues for an 18-year-old woman last seen on her birthday two weeks ago.
The RCMP major crime and serious crime units are now assisting in the investigation of the whereabouts of Jennifer Leigh Catcheway.
Two adult males have been arrested, questioned and released without charge in connection with Catcheway's disappearance.
The Manitoba Search and Rescue Association has provided 15 searchers and two dogs to help dozens of people already combing the bush just north of the Dakota Tipi First Nation. The search was into its fourth day yesterday and the family of Catcheway vowed not to give up until she is found.

 

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WINNIPEG — The party was all set for Jennifer Catcheway's 18th birthday. Guests were invited, there was food for the barbecue. All that remained was for the guest of honour to arrive. But Ms. Catcheway never arrived at her mother's home in Portage La Prairie, Man., that night, and for more than two weeks her family has tried desperately to find her, struggling at first to get police and the news media to take seriously their concerns about a missing aboriginal teenager.
The search gathered steam Saturday as an RCMP team, with the help of a helicopter, combed a section of woods near Gypsumville, Man., 270 kilometres north of Portage La Prairie in the rural Interlake region. The search came to a halt late Saturday evening having turned up nothing, the RCMP said.
On Friday the RCMP arrested two men in connection with the case and brought them in for questioning. They were released without charge, and have not been identified by police.



More: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/serv...tional/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080706.wmissing07

 

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http://www.portageonline.com/index....ad&page=9&category=21&article=12528&Itemid=86

 

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http://www.portagedailygraphic.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1609094

 

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http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/manitoba/2009/07/26/10265036-sun.html

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Jennifer Catcheway went missing on June 19, 2007. Since then, the family has organized numerous searches in the Portage la Prairie area in hopes of finding any clue to her disappearance.

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According to a national advocacy group tracking the Canada-wide problem, Osborne is one of 75 aboriginal women who have gone missing -- or whose murders are unsolved -- in this province. Smith estimates 20 of those cases are in Winnipeg.
Organizers were circulating a petition urging the federal government to launch an independent investigation as to why there are more than 520 aboriginal women across Canada who are either missing or have been murdered.

 

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On Friday the RCMP arrested two men in connection with the case and brought them in for questioning. They were released without charge, and have not been identified by police.
Ms. Catcheway's sister, Mary Starr, said the two men who were questioned are related to the Catcheways by marriage. They are the last known people to have seen Ms. Catcheway, although she doesn't know where or why they were together. “We've known them for many years, that's probably why my sister felt safe being there with them,” Ms. Starr said

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/article695918.ece

I question this - Jennifer Catcheway's sister does not know why Jennifer was with these 2 men (that are somehow related by marriage). Why not? Who were these 2 men that last saw Jennifer on the day of her 18th birthday!?

From the same article
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The party was all set for Jennifer Catcheway's 18th birthday. Guests were invited, there was food for the barbecue. All that remained was for the guest of honour to arrive.

 

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http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28597730796

Facebook group for Jennifer Catcheway

 

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http://www.nampn.org/cases/mcfarland_amber.html

Jennifer Leigh Catcheway

Above Image: Catcheway, circa 2008

Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance​

Missing Since: June 19, 2008 from Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
Classification: Missing
Date Of Birth: June 19, 1990
Current Age: 18
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 165 lbs
Hair Color: Brown, long length
Eye Color: Hazel Green
Race: Aboriginal
Gender: Female ​

Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Portage La Prairie RCMP
857-4445
OR
Manitoba Crime Stoppers
1-800-222-TIPS

 

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If you have information concerning Jennifer’s disappearance please call:
Manitoba Crime Stoppers at
1-800-222-8477 (TIPS)
or submit a secure tip on-line at
www.manitobacrimestoppers.com​

http://www.manitobacrimestoppers.com/missingperson.html

 

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http://www.memorytorch.net/JenniferCatchewayMissing.html

MISSING PERSON
JENNIFER CATCHEWAY​

MissingTorch​

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"Jennifer Catcheway bring her home"
Official page on FaceBook ​

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JENNIFER CATCHEWAY
**$20,000 Reward for information leading to the location of Jennifer Catcheway**

Jennifer has been missing since June 19/08.
She was expected to attend a family BBQ for her18th birthday in Portage la Prairie.

There are reports she had been seen at a house party on Dakota Tipi First Nation on June 20.
While a relative said she may have boarded a truck in Grand Rapids the previous day.

Jennifer has medium-length brown hair, hazel eyes, 5 foot 7 inches tall and about 165 pounds.

(Bernice Catcheway's daughter Jennifer vanished, without a trace. "It'll take a miracle, I know, but I believe in miracles, and Jennifer if you're out there, we love you Jen."
"We love you Jen, Come home, come home," cried Catcheway's mother. ) FROM CTV NEWS Dec.9th/08

Please help us! Be aware! Be vigilant! Jennifer is still out there and we must bring her home!
Jennifer is a deeply loved Sister, Auntie, Niece, Daughter, Cousin and Friend. Help us bring her home!

SOMEONE KNOWS WHERE JENNIFER IS!

Crime Stoppers pays cash for information on any unsolved crime.
To contact Crime Stoppers
In Winnipeg call - 786-TIPPS (786-8477)
In Rural Manitoba call 1-800-782-TIPPS (896-8477)
Callers never have to reveal their identity Call with information The RCMP @ 204-857-4445

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By Gabrielle Giroday, Winnipeg Free PressSeptember 18, 2009


WINNIPEG — The family of a Manitoba woman missing for more than a year is convinced she was slain. As of this week, Mounties agree.
Jennifer Catcheway, 18, went to Grand Rapids in northern Manitoba on a road trip with two male relatives in June 2008 and was never seen again. The father of the Portage la Prairie woman said family members, who have resumed the search, received information placing her at Dakota Tipi First Nation outside Portage, about 80 kilometres west of Winnipeg, before she disappeared around June 19.


http://www.canada.com/news/Missing+Manitoba+woman+slain+Mounties/2007623/story.html

 

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Funding for missing aboriginal women applauded

The mother of a missing woman said she was happy to hear about the federal government's funding commitment to address missing aboriginal women in Canada.

Bernice Catcheway, whose daughter Jennifer has been missing since June 2008, said the funding is good news.

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The federal government pledged $10 million in funding over a period of two years to address the high number of missing and murdered aboriginal women in its budget, which was presented March 4.

http://www.portagedailygraphic.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2483130

 

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/06/19/mb-jennifer-catcheway-search.html
Missing woman's family continues 4-year-old search
Family members of a young Portage la Prairie, Man., woman who went missing four years ago are not giving up efforts to find her.

Jennifer Catcheway was 18 years old when she disappeared on June 19, 2008.

Her parents, Bernice and Wilfred Catcheway, and other family members spent Tuesday — her 22nd birthday — hosting a fundraising barbecue in Portage la Prairie.

The money raised from the barbecue will go towards a new search that will begin later this week in the woods north of the city.

http://www.winnipegsun.com/2012/06/14/parents-raising-money-to-search-for-missing-daughter
Parents hope for answers in finding daughter
Searching through the woods. Combing through thick bush filled with mosquitoes and poison ivy. Then, as winter nears, sloshing through knee-deep snow.

Those are some of the many difficult steps taken by the family of Jennifer Catcheway, the Manitoba woman who vanished on her 18th birthday.

Monday marks exactly four years since she disappeared.

http://www.portagedailygraphic.com/2012/06/14/four-years-since-jennifer-catcheway-disappeared
Four years since Jennifer Catcheway disappeared
A candelight vigil is planned for Jennifer Catcheway on Saturday, June 16 at 7 p.m. at 728 Poplar Bay in Portage la Prairie.
It has been four years since she disappeared.
June 19 marks the fourth anniversary of Jennifer Catcheway's disappearance. Jennifer's family are still hoping they will find their daughter.

 

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Catcheways Honor Missing Daughter Jennifer Catcheway - YouTube
Catcheways honor missing daughter

 

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Search continues for Jennifer Catcheway 5 years later

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...er-catcheway-missing-five-years-winnipeg.html

 

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RCMP highlight 6 cases on National Missing Children's Day
May 25, 2015 2:28 PM CT

"It's critical that we keep missing children's stories in the public eye because there's always hope that someone will do the right thing and come forward with new information that could lead to a missing child being located," Christy Dzikowicz, director of Missing Children Services at the Canadian Centre, said in a release.

Jennifer's is among the cases being highlighted.

 

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...search-of-landfill-west-of-winnipeg-1.3296048

"Jennifer Catcheway's family resumes search of landfill west of Winnipeg
'I’ve always have questions about Dakota Tipi, unanswered questions from 2008'

CBC News Posted: Oct 30, 2015"

 

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Updated.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...fill-and-dakota-tipi-yards-1.3296048?cmp=abfb

'Hard to know what to believe'

Smoke said what happened to Catcheway is still a topic swirling around the community. There is so much speculation "it's hard to know what to believe," she added.

"I've had others tell me what they've heard. I've seen people posting on Facebook about conversations that went down in this community," said Smoke, adding she believes "there is a secret out there."



http://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/i-ll-tak...rch-landfill-for-jennifer-catcheway-1.2634273

'I'll take her wherever she is': Family search landfill for Jennifer Catcheway"

 

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http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...itoba-teen-banned-from-searching-reserve.html

" Published on Sun Nov 01 2015

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN.—Animosity is brewing in Manitoba between a mother and father desperate for clues into the disappearance of their missing daughter, and a First Nations chief who says band members have grown tired of searchers digging holes on their reserve.

Bernice Catcheway, whose daughter, Jennifer, disappeared seven years ago, says she, her husband and other searchers are now barred from entering the Dakota Tipi reserve near Portage la Prairie after their latest search of the community’s dump and other areas last week.

The searchers brought a backhoe, and while they didn’t find any physical evidence, Catcheway says a resident gave them another tip.

“It’s important we go back there, but obviously we can’t,” said Catcheway, speaking from her home in Portage la Prairie.

“It is not a very big reserve but there (are) places we needed to get into and we still need to get into.”

 

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/j...uts-end-to-search-for-missing-woman-1.3326689

New
Jennifer Catcheway's family thanks supporters as winter puts end to search for missing woman
'I just shared my heart,' says Bernice Catcheway, thanking searchers who've supported her family

"Over the years both the family and RCMP have received tips that Catcheway was last seen at a party on the Dakota Tipi First Nation, just outside of Portage La Prairie, Man., where the family lives.

RCMP are investigating her disappearance as a homicide and believe her body is somewhere between Grand Rapids and Portage La Prairie.

Instead of going on summer vacations, the family searches bushes, marshes and open fields. They've come across bones on two separate occasions, only to learn the bones weren't human. For the past month, the Catcheway family have focused their search inside Dakota Tipi First Nation.

"This is the saddest part of searching, [it's] going home, going home empty handed. But we gave our best. We did our best, all summer long."