AB Canada: Jordyn Dines, age 16, body found July 4, 2025, homicide

[Traymar]

If the owner said their car had been missing since Friday morning, that seems to indicate they knew (unless they learned from family, neighbors, or cameras that it was gone Friday morning). If they didn't know, it seems like they would say they didn't know it was missing until police contacted them - or something.

I just wonder how they know it had been missing since Friday morning. Cameras? Witness?

If they did know but didn't report it, is it because a family member sometimes "borrows" it without asking? If so, this could be a direction of inquiry.

All MOO.

 

[Tealgrove]

Just throwing this out there…

Could the registered car owner have a son/daughter that hung around with Jordyn?

Could there be a history of a son/daughter taking the car out without permission but always brought it back? If it was a common occurrence, yup it was missing but it’ll back, therefore no report of a missing vehicle.

I think LE will be tying this up fairly soon.

MOO

 

[otto]

If the owner said their car had been missing since Friday morning, that seems to indicate they knew (unless they learned from family, neighbors, or cameras that it was gone Friday morning). If they didn't know, it seems like they would say they didn't know it was missing until police contacted them - or something.

I just wonder how they know it had been missing since Friday morning. Cameras? Witness?

If they did know but didn't report it, is it because a family member sometimes "borrows" it without asking? If so, this could be a direction of inquiry.

All MOO.

I assume that the owner of the car used, or saw, his/her vehicle on Friday morning. That's the obvious explanation.

Later that same day, the vehicle was missing/stolen.

There does not seem to be anything more to it.

 

[otto]

Fortunately for Jordyn's family, there are supports for the family of homicide victims in the Province of Alberta. These are just a couple of the benefits that are provided.

"If you have a family member who was a victim of homicide in Alberta, you can get:

• reimbursement for funeral related expenses, up to a maximum amount
• immediate access to grief counselling

https://www.alberta.ca/funeral-expense-and-grief-counselling-support

"Emergency assistance for victims of crime who have immediate basic needs as a result of the crime. Example:

• Basic necessities or groceries

https://www.alberta.ca/victims-of-crime-assistance-program

 

[Traymar]

I assume that the owner of the car used, or saw, his/her vehicle on Friday morning. That's the obvious explanation.

Later that same day, the vehicle was missing/stolen.

There does not seem to be anything more to it.

I don't mean to split hairs, but the words as said (if accurate), indicate the car had been missing since Friday morning, not that it was last confirmed to be there (or last used) Friday morning.

"Been missing since Friday morning" seems to indicate the person went to use the car that morning and/or noticed it was missing that morning.

Of course it is possible they did not mean that, but their words seem to indicate it. Regardless, it's probably not important, but I just wanted to point out the distinction in case it does end up having any significance.

MOO

 

[alexandra48]

The autopsy results haven’t been released so purely speculation, but if Jordyn died of an illegal drug overdose it wouldn’t be out of the realm for LE to call it a worst case scenario, that of homicide as it correlates with drugging a 16 year old that turned deadly, while abducted. It would be upon the accused to turn themselves in and tell what happened if he/she believes they’re innocent.
JMO

Criminal Code

Federal laws of Canada

laws-lois.justice.gc.ca

5) A person commits culpable homicide when he causes the death of a human being,

• (a) by means of an unlawful act;
• (b) by criminal negligence;

My province may be completely behind but i’ve never seen police publicly label an overdose a homicide, even when they know who gave, did the drugs with them and left them to die it’s only ever been labeled a manslaughter. The law isn’t that straight forward and it would be weird to hinder an investigation unless there was evidence of a homicide.

 

[otto]

My province may be completely behind but i’ve never seen police publicly label an overdose a homicide, even when they know who gave, did the drugs with them and left them to die it’s only ever been labeled a manslaughter. The law isn’t that straight forward and it would be weird to hinder an investigation unless there was evidence of a homicide.

Completely agree. There must be evidence of homicide to involve the RCMP Major Crimes Unit. Suggestions that an at-risk youth died of an overdose may be missing the big picture.

"Alberta Mounties are investigating the suspicious death of a teenager found in Glenwood, southwest of Lethbridge late last week.

On July 4, 2025, Cardston RCMP received a report of an abandoned vehicle approximately 1.5 km West of Glenwood. Upon arrival, police located the vehicle with a deceased person inside. The Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit has been deployed and taken over the investigation.

Mounties say the deceased has been identified as a 16-year-old female. The deceased has been transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner pending an autopsy."

https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2025/07/07/alberta-rcmp-major-crimes-unit-investigate-suspicious-death-near-glenwood/

"The Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit (MCU) manages and investigates:

• homicides,
• suspicious deaths, and
• missing person cases where foul play is suspected."

Major Crimes Unit

www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca

 

[Inthedetails]

She was missing on Wednesday, last seen at the shopping mall on Thursday, found deceased on Friday. She was probably lured with a promise of something that sounded interesting or exciting.

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My first thoughts are similar - that she left with the expectation of something exciting or appealing. My hunch is then she realized she was misled and was in a situation over her head and she resisted whatever that was - and so she was done away with. ? IMO

jmopinion at the moment.

 

[otto]

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My first thoughts are similar - that she left with the expectation of something exciting or appealing. My hunch is then she realized she was misled and was in a situation over her head and she resisted whatever that was - and so she was done away with. ? IMO

jmopinion at the moment.

One driver + one stolen car is the part that is hard for me to understand. I assume that Jordyn met someone on Thursday afternoon at the shopping mall, or later that evening.

I also assume that a car was stolen sometime in the early hours of Friday and used to travel with Jordyn to Southern Alberta. I assume that the driver did not have a car and had to steal one to leave the city.

The big question is: where did the driver go after abandoning the car and deceased Jordyn? Another question is: why did the driver leave Jordyn in the car rather than a field - as is usually done?

 

[otto]

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My first thoughts are similar - that she left with the expectation of something exciting or appealing. My hunch is then she realized she was misled and was in a situation over her head and she resisted whatever that was - and so she was done away with. ? IMO

jmopinion at the moment.

Jordyn would have been an easy target. She was an at-risk youth, and her mother states that she wanted to help at-risk youth. Luring could involve anything from "I'll make you into a rich famous model" to "wanna get stoned" to "I need you to help someone at-risk" to "I'll pay you $500 to babysit my puppy for the day".

 

[Inthedetails]

One driver + one stolen car is the part that is hard for me to understand. I assume that Jordyn met someone on Thursday afternoon at the shopping mall, or later that evening.

I also assume that a car was stolen sometime in the early hours of Friday and used to travel with Jordyn to Southern Alberta. I assume that the driver did not have a car and had to steal one to leave the city.

The big question is: where did the driver go after abandoning the car and deceased Jordyn? Another question is: why did the driver leave Jordyn in the car rather than a field - as is usually done?

Could've been a small group? I just have the feeling (based on nothing, tbh) that she wasn't fitting in with whatever they were doing.

Of course, I could be way off base.

jmopinion

 

[annpats]

It makes me so sad to think of all that beautiful Canadian prairieland now being used as avenues for human trafficking.
What is going on. Just horrific.

 

[otto]

It makes me so sad to think of all that beautiful Canadian prairieland now being used as avenues for human trafficking.
What is going on. Just horrific.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that the Canadian Prairies are now human trafficking zones or avenues. Human trafficking occurs primarily in major cities without transporting victims anywhere. When victims are transported, these are the primary locations (see attached). Calgary is the preferred location because customers pay top dollar for services.

I linked the below screenshots and Calgary human trafficking stats upthread (see: comments #6, #27).

 

[Aurora90]

dbm

 

[tarabull]

Justice for Jordyn!!!