Found Deceased Canada - Amanda Michayluk, 34, picked up by unknown vehicle, Maidstone, Saskatchewan, 10 Jan 2019

[cybervampira]

Maidstone woman goes missing after vehicle gets stuck

RCMP are on the lookout for a 34-year-old woman who has gone missing from just south of Maidstone.

RCMP say Amanda Michayluk had been collecting firewood with her father when their vehicle became stuck in the snow early Thursday morning. She walked away to get help and has not been heard from since.

Maidstone RCMP say footprints left by Michayluk in the snow appear to show she got to a nearby road before it appears as if she was picked up by an unknown vehicle.

Missing Maidstone woman believed to be picked-up by unknown vehicle

 

[LadyL]

oh no

 

[Forpsy]

Geez, you're never safe anymore

 

[ttcRider]

This is a very small town. I think the population is about 1200.

 

[cybervampira]

Maidstone RCMP search for woman missing after going for help when vehicle got stuck | CBC News

[...]

Michayluk requires medication, according to police, which she does not have with her.

She's described as 5-9 and 115 pounds, with a thin build, brown hair and brown eyes. She also usually wears glasses.

Police say Amanda Michayluk was wearing a denim Ski-Doo suit, tuque and winter boots when she went missing. (Submitted by RCMP)

She was wearing a denim Ski-Doo suit, tuque and winter boots when she went missing.

[...]

 

[cybervampira]

Missing Maidstone woman found dead in farm field

RCMP say the body of the 34 year old woman was found Friday in a farmer’s field accessed by a non maintained grid road, about four kilometres from where she was last seen walking.

Early information suggests Michayluk died of hypothermia and exposure after she tried to walk home early Thursday morning during a snowstorm and got lost heading southbound in deep snow and whiteout conditions.

 

[dyannaON]

How very sad.

 

[Forpsy]

Dang.

 

[LadyL]

RIP Amanda. So sad. Her poor father will feel terrible for a long time even though it's not his fault.

 

[mickey2942]

Terrible. My daughter's car died in an area with no cell service, very rural area, she was picked up by a stranger around her Dad's age, come to find out, he actually KNEW her Dad! He stayed with her to get her car towed to next town, and he drove her home, 120 miles.

It is crazy that there is a chance of getting a crazy person or someone nice, you just never know.

Note: I would have preferred she had waited for a Sherriff or something, but where we live, it is very rural. She did what she thought was best.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Amanda Michayluk’s footsteps cast deep blue shadows across a snowy field, stretching in a line toward a Saskatchewan sunset.
They marked her final moments on earth. They were captured by a family member with a camera in the days after the 34-year-old mother of two went missing not far from her home.
She was dead by the time the photo was taken. The RCMP never saw the tracks, never followed them to the farmer’s field where Michayluk’s body lay.

That cold trail lies at the heart of a blistering report by the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission, the RCMP’s civilian watchdog. In it, the CRCC called the Mounties’ failure to call in a search and rescue team to help find Michayluk “unconscionable.”
The report goes on to say the RCMP’s investigation into her disappearance was plagued by tunnel vision, stereotypes and shoddy policing.

“It’s literally dumbfounding, thinking about why they didn’t do their due diligence,” Amanda Michayluk’s sister Christine Barton told CBC News.

“I do think those officers have to sit back and think about the fact that someone is dead, possibly because of them not following through.”

Described as an outgoing, caring person, Michayluk was out gathering firewood with her father on Jan. 9, 2019, a frigid and snowy night. Their home near Maidstone, Sask., about two hours northwest of Saskatoon, used a wood-burning furnace for heat.

Amanda Michayluk headed straight to the firewood site after work, without supper, said Barton. When their vehicle kept getting stuck in the snow, Michayluk decided to walk home around 11:30 p.m.

“Somehow, one way or another, she either doubled back and took the wrong turn at [the] intersection or just kept walking,” Barton said.

When their father realized Michayluk hadn’t made it home, he called police around 2:47 a.m. and asked for a search and rescue team. He told them he tried to look for her but the grid roads were impassable due to metre-high snowdrifts, said the CRCC report.

Two RCMP officers — Const. Kalen Henderson and Const. Kelly Brennan — were dispatched to the family home in the early hours of Jan. 10, the report said.

The CRCC said Henderson believed he found Michayluk’s tracks leading up to a road and assumed a passing motorist had picked her up. The responding officers reportedly saw no other tracks in the area, though they did not return to the firewood site, said the CRC.
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https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/death-sask-rcmp-documents

 

[Mary-Belle]

So sad… I doubt an apology is making the family feel better about the loss.