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

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So far,I have not spotted an update on that charred body found a few days ago,has anyone heard anything?
Owen,where on earth are you?!
 
www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/11/16/bc-owen-rooney-search-stanley-park.html

Owens family is checking Stanley Park, which is downtown Vancouver. Big park, parts are heavily forested. There are lots of homeless and transients in Vancouver and surrounding areas because basicly its the only place in Canada that has a temperate climate.
Have'nt seen anything about the body in Surrey. Surrey used to be rural, still alot of rundown cottage type homes (cheap rent) but its a suburb of Vancouver in reality. Its a pretty rough and ready area. Finding a body there does'nt raise alot of eyebrows.
 
nao said:
www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/11/16/bc-owen-rooney-search-stanley-park.html

Owens family is checking Stanley Park, which is downtown Vancouver. Big park, parts are heavily forested. There are lots of homeless and transients in Vancouver and surrounding areas because basicly its the only place in Canada that has a temperate climate.
Have'nt seen anything about the body in Surrey. Surrey used to be rural, still alot of rundown cottage type homes (cheap rent) but its a suburb of Vancouver in reality. Its a pretty rough and ready area. Finding a body there does'nt raise alot of eyebrows.
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From your link above,this sounds like the most promising news so far..


After receiving a tip, they walked the trails of Stanley Park, hoping Owen, 24, might be living there. The densely wooded park is occupied by dozens of the city's homeless.

"We did get a phone call last week," said Sharon Rooney. "A woman in Vancouver, identifying a person with Owen's description and Australian accent … she saw the clip on the news. It's not concrete, it's just a glimmer. Up till now, there has been nothing."



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-co...rooney-search-stanley-park.html#ixzz15azTJtYT
 
http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/local/article/695375

J.J. MCCULLOUGH
METRO VANCOUVER
Published: November 18, 2010 5:37 a.m.
Last modified: November 18, 2010 12:41 a.m.

Refusing to surrender even after months of fruitless searching, an Australian couple is continuing their quest to locate their missing son, who vanished during a working holiday in British Columbia more than 12 weeks ago.
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For Those of You Who Would Like to Help
We have a poster with Owen's picture on it. If you would like to print it out and distribute it to places like soup kitchens, shelters, Greyhound Bus Depots, gas stations, shop windows and any other places you can think of, we would VERY much appreciate it. Also, long distance trucking companies, in case a driver has picked him up when he was hitch-hiking.
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Either click on the poster or click here to go to a PDF copy of the poster.

Then click File > Save a copy and then you can print it.

OR

Under the File menu you can simply click Print.

If you could tell us here, in the Comments box (link here), where you have put up posters that will be very useful to others who are also distributing the posters.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
the Find Owen Rooney site
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http://www.find-owen.com/2010/11/for-those-of-you-who-would-like-to-help.html
 
For Those of You Who Would Like to Help
We have a poster with Owen's picture on it. If you would like to print it out and distribute it to places like soup kitchens, shelters, Greyhound Bus Depots, gas stations, shop windows and any other places you can think of, we would VERY much appreciate it. Also, long distance trucking companies, in case a driver has picked him up when he was hitch-hiking.
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Information on how to print the poster and more at link below:

http://www.find-owen.com/2010/11/for-those-of-you-who-would-like-to-help.html
 
Valleyboy said:
Surrey is up near the top of the list of murders in Canada.

This is the case that Hazel is refering to.

CANADA Canada - Jodi Henrickson, 17, Bowen Island British Columbia, 20 June 2009 - Part 2 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community
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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/11/24/16296296.html
RCMP say the charred remains found in a Surrey, B.C., ravine earlier this month belong to a missing woman.

The family of Tara Lynn Westgarde, 34, of Surrey, last saw her alive on the morning of Nov. 11. A man walking on a trail with his daughter found the remains at 12:40 p.m. on Nov. 13.

Police said the remains had been burned beyond recognition.

Westgarde was known to police in various communities in the province for her involvement in drugs, property crimes and fraud. She was also known to occasionally use the last name Fedorick and the first name Tiara, police said.

"Investigators are of the belief that this incident was not a random act," RCMP said in a release.

Police released a photo of Westgarde "in hopes that someone will be able to provide us information to tighten the timeline from when she was last seen to her discovery,” Cpl. Dale Carr said.
R.I.P.
 
Here is a bit more info on the sighting:

http://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/58512/Kelowna-tourist-spotted-in-Nanaimo

"Police have now received a tip from a woman in Nanaimo who says Rooney bore a resemblance to one of three men who knocked on her door on November 5 selling dream catchers.

The woman says she never spoke directly to Rooney who was standing off to the side.

She says she spoke with a man with a Jamaican accent who was wearing his hair in dreadlocks."

The sighting was already 3 weeks ago so it seems strange that nobody else saw these men if they were selling door to door. Also this article says the woman never spoke to Rooney, and the other article (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/11/16/bc-owen-rooney-search-stanley-park.html) says she identified his Australian accent. Maybe she just heard him talk. Hoping for some good news soon!
 
This is hopeful news,but how strange that dreamcatchers also featured in the missing Mariam Makhniashvili case!
 
Saanich police said people in Parksville, Nanaimo and Saanich reported seeing Rooney earlier this month. In at least two of the sightings, Rooney was seen selling dream-catchers door-to-door with other men.

Sgt. Dean Jantzen said the Saanich sighting is credible because the person reported having direct contact with Rooney.
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from:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2010/11/26/bc-owen-rooney-search-vancouver.html


Interesting that 2 sightings in 2 different communities related to dream-catchers. I agree dotr that this is very, very curious.

Here's hoping it really is Owen :crossfingers:
 
Thanks. The article says there were 3 sightings and one had direct contact with Owen. That is probably the one that recognized the accent. One of the sellers had a Jamaican accent and had his hair in dreadlocks. Owen was seen eating with a couple before (Aug 12) where the girl had dreadlocks. Not sure if that could be a connection. Maybe he met up with a group of people traveling and selling stuff? Still a long shot though but you never know.

In Mariam's case she was also sighted with a group selling dream catchers. However it was reported that this sighting turned out to be false as the group was tracked and seems to have been a group of young Europeans traveling Canada.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ms-family-looking-for-answers/article1704272/

I do wonder how two apparently different groups come up with the same idea of something so specific as selling dream catchers door to door. Strange.
 
I've only skimmed this thread. With a head injury (that we still don't know who/what caused it), isn't it possible that Owen has amnesia? If he was the type to keep in touch with family and friends, and if he hasn't contacted them since leaving the hospital, I think so.

Also, people he may have fallen in with may have been taking advantage of him, given him a different name (or he himself may have done that).

Wish some of these people spotting him would take a photo, talk to him, and call LE right away!
 
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