Found Deceased Canada - Owen Rooney, 24, Grand Forks, BC, 14 Aug 2010

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Hazel said:
SB, could you please find the quote for me, where the bleeding of the ears is mentioned? or was that in the video?
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Yes, in the video.

This bus depot vs hospital thing is peeing me off. Earlier reports specifically stated the LEO dropped him at the bus depot, then it became more and more that he was dropped at the bus depot with a suggestion he go to the hospital, and now it's that he was dropped at the hospital.
 
tarabull said:
Is this one of those "only in Canada" things, like red rose tea and the idea we all live in igloo's??? Just asking as I'm not knowing. IMO, people disappear everyday all over this round ball we are riding around on - people are STRANGE yes they sure are but, missing people even STRANGER.



Found under this report posted up thread:

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...lian-owen-rooney/story-e6freuy9-1225919729353

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OWEN, Where are you?? Please be safe & sound.
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I'm having to bite my tongue a lot on this one Tarabull ... but at this point i have to say I agree with that poster's perception.
 
My curiosity had peaked....I had to look:

Starlight Tours

A starlight tour is the non-sanctioned police practice of picking up individuals in their cruisers, mostly homeless, drug addicts, or other such marginalized people, and taking them outside of town where they would be beaten and/or abandoned on the side of the road.

A suspected case in Canada resulted in an inquiry in 2003 into the hypothermia death of Neil Stonechild in 1990 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The inquiry found that he might have been subjected to a starlight tour by the police. However, the inquiry found that at the time of the death the police investigation was not adequate to conclude what the circumstances were surrounding Neil Stonechild's death. However, the 2 officers who picked up Stonechild that evening were eventually fired.
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I do remember Stonechild's case....RIP Neil.

I don't like the feeling I'm getting.

Just saying...
 
It may be the wrong time of year for it but still, ask a Canadian what a "starlight walk" is. This looks just like one of them. Their bodies are almost never found. I hope the family can bring in additional help to find him. I have lived in Canada all my life and have never heard the term "starlight walk". :waitasec: I sure hope they find Owen. Ok Tara i was in the midst of posting when you posted about the "starlight tours".
 
luckyducky said:
It may be the wrong time of year for it but still, ask a Canadian what a "starlight walk" is. This looks just like one of them. Their bodies are almost never found. I hope the family can bring in additional help to find him. I have lived in Canada all my life and have never heard the term "starlight walk". :waitasec: I sure hope they find Owen. Ok Tara i was in the midst of posting when you posted about the "starlight tours".
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"Starlight tours" is the common phrase. In another one of the infamous tours, 2 Saskatoon LE were convicted of forcible confinement (re Darrell Night)
 
luckyducky said:
Australian Expatriate Missing in Canada – You Can Help http://www.shelteroffshore.com/inde...patriate-missing-in-canada-you-can-help-10892
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I believe this is the first time we have heard that Owen initially received a ride directly from Castlegar to Christina Lake. That puts Owen into Christina Lake on 2 separate occasions:

Owen got a ride from Castlegar westward to arrive in Christina Lake the first time.

He then ended up further west in Grand Forks supposedly having breakfast with a couple on the Thursday. If that Grand Forks breakfast story is true, then

Some time after that breakfast, Owen returned eastward to arrive in Christina Lake for the second time in order for LE to have picked him up there Thursday/Friday? and take him back to Grand Forks.

At this point, it seems the only people that could have information on Owen's travels and contacts are LE and hospital staff.

We don't know who drove Owen from Castlegar to Christina Lake the first time (so if that info is factual, who did it come from)

We don't know who Owen had breakfast with in Grand Forks (so if that info is factual, who did it come from)

We don't know who drove Owen from Grand Forks back to Christina Lake the second time (so if that info is factual, who did it come from)

Owen had the perfect opportunity (while safe in a cruiser with LE and/or safe in a hospital setting) to tell who assaulted him. Why would he not have done so?
 
SB...as always, you make great points...maybe the mystery couple will come forward. I can't believe Owen's been missing since August 14th with very little being reported.

with regard to your last question - Owen safe in the cruiser with LE - why would he not have told who assaulted him? the answer my mind initially concludes is that the "assault" hadn't happened yet? wrong, right or indifferent, that's my initial reaction....just saying.

with regards to - Owen safe in a hospital setting - I am questioning if he was even a patient - I mean all we have is his backpack at a picnic table outside - right? why no report from the hospital? shouldn't they be shouting from the rooftops that they have a missing patient?

YKWIM?
 
tarabull said:
SB...as always, you make great points...maybe the mystery couple will come forward. I can't believe Owen's been missing since August 14th with very little being reported.

with regard to your last question - Owen safe in the cruiser with LE - why would he not have told who assaulted him? the answer my mind initially concludes is that the "assault" hadn't happened yet? wrong, right or indifferent, that's my initial reaction....just saying.

with regards to - Owen safe in a hospital setting - I am questioning if he was even a patient - I mean all we have is his backpack at a picnic table outside - right? why no report from the hospital? shouldn't they be shouting from the rooftops that they have a missing patient?

YKWIM?
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YIKWYM ;) ... there are certain towns in BC that are "wrapped up tight" ... YKWIM?
 
Poor family, hard enough to have someone go missing from home. The expenses and lack of connection or knowledge of the country just a horrible stressful extra burden.
Before i found WS i presumed most missing people were found - oneway or the other.
How hard the decision must be that you cannot search or stay any longer.
From the link of dotr - large growop with bears- myself living in BC hillbilly country i'll add what i know.
If Christina Lake has one large growop it has a favorable enviroment so theres probably more.
With large grows, plants need tending and harvest usually starts in September. Its been a wet year, so early harvest. Clipping the plants so they are ready for sale is well paying employment.
Maybe thats why he was hanging around Christina Lake, I've heard -you get a place to stay/camp plus $20-$30 an hour. Not talking about there thats just the going rate.

Here there used to be people that did a few or at max a couple of hundred plants, pay some of the morgage, clothes for the kids, put the money back into the community.
But now those people have been busted or got scared. So now we have huge growops, and they are not nice people, not part of the community, very good at hiding cause us locals don't even hear rumors till a bust.
Bears are also carnivourous, gotta admit they would be guards.
Oh how i wish the shows CSI and Bones where more real.
 
I posted this link in page 1 of this thread although it was an older case.I wonder if the Mothers of these young men could possibly get together and perhaps share cost/space/info of missing person billboard .
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/297936
 
Monday, October 4, 2010
Australian Expatriate Missing in Canada – You Can Help

owen_rooney.jpg

Owen Kiernan Rooney is a 24-year-old Australian expatriate who has gone missing in Canada

  • Owen Kiernan Rooney is 24 years old
  • He is an Australian citizen.
  • He is 175cm tall (that’s 5 foot 9 inches)
  • he weighs about 73 kg (which is 161 pounds or 11 stone 7 pounds)
  • He has brown hair
  • and two distinctive tattoos - one is on his shoulder, it’s about 3 inches across and is a circle shaped Celtic star. The other on his calve is a triangle with a kangaroo on it.

Full article - Expat Daily News: http://www.expatdailynews.com/2010/10/australian-expatriate-missing-in-canada.html
 
Bump for Owen !!

I recall reading that Owen's cell phone had been smashed, so presumably it was located in his backpack that was left behind, but obviously he would not have been able to call anyone. It was also said that his bank accounts, credit cards, and FB account had not been accessed. I wonder if his bank/credit cards were found in his backpack, or a wallet or any money he would need to purchase a bus ticket. IF he had money and/or access to it, why was he hitch-hiking instead of taking a bus back to Kelowna?
 
AFAIK, the only way the bus depot factored into this situation was from the LEO himself. So this brings some questions to mind:

Up until Owen encountered LEO, he had been hitch-hiking his way back to Kelowna, so why would Owen suddenly decide to take a bus from Grand Forks?

Let's say LEO advised Owen that hitch-hiking was not safe and he should take a bus, and Owen figured he'd go to the bus depot to satisfy LEO, how would Owen have known where the hospital was in relation to the bus depot??

IF LEO took Owen directly to the hospital, why would the bus depot ever even enter into any aspect of Owen's disappearance?
 
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