I wonder if these two guys were ever caught:
http://www.metronews.ca/news/winnip...hbourhood-as-winnipeg-police-investigate.html ? This is really more North Kildonan, but it isn't too far from Kimberley. I think it would have taken two men to abduct Thelma. There is a 6'2 white male that police were also looking for in connection with a sexual assault in the area a few months before Thelma's sudden disappearance. There was a string of 6 sexual assaults around that time, but they caught the perp, and he was targeting younger women. One used a bike to approach his victims.
I have a few "ears on the ground" in the area, including my own, but the strange thing is nobody seems to have a clue. Usually you hear gossip and rumours, but I've gleaned nothing of significance. Thelma was a good person who did not have enemies; in fact, she was very well liked. Some bad people connected with a family member? Perhaps in one direction, but I'm sure the police checked it out, and I did phone it in months ago as a suggestion, flimsy as it was.
Where would Thelma meet men who might develop an interest in her? Well, at her workplace there were not many men. She was in the office, not meeting a lot of the public or family members of SPIKE residents. She would have met a lot of men at Mr.Sub, but that was many years ago that she worked there, and no evidence of a stalker from those days that I've heard of. She did enjoy going to the Winnipeg Speedway races, and her husband worked for Winnipeg Transit which employs a lot of men, but how would they even get to see or know Thelma? I'm sure the family has thought of all possible stalkers. So that leaves us with a random attacker(s)/abductor(s), I guess, in which case women in the area do still need to be very vigilant.
Another thought I had was that maybe Thelma did get sick along the way due to the heat and low hydration, and a man who she thought was a Good Samaritan turned out not to be. So that's why he got close to her. Then when she struggled, her glasses were damaged, and she dropped her cell phone, maybe while trying to phone for help?
As I've indicated before, I do not suspect her husband. Why go after her in public and not in the home, and on the day of his grandson's birthday party? Also doesn't fit his energy level/personality to plan some big scheme. I'm sure the police have thoroughly checked out the immediate family members. It's a pretty tight timeline for Thelma's husband to kill her and dispose of her body and not leave any evidence behind!
I also don't suspect she left of her own free will. I've found no evidence to support that idea.
I sure wish the police would give us more to go on!