CANADA Canada - Elsie Sebastian, 40, Vancouver, BC, October 1992

[TheArtfulDetective]

Elsie Louise Jones Sebastian



Elsie was 40 years old when she was last seen in Vancouver, British Columbia sometime in October of 1992. Elsie became a mother at 16 years old and her son was raised by extended family. She had a daughter at age 21, but her and the father were unable to maintain their relationship. Elsie later married and had two more children but struggled to stay in her marriage and battled heroin and alcohol addiction.

Though Elsie disappeared in 1992, family claims they were thwarted by authorities when making a report and nothing official was made of her disappearance until 2001. Family claims that Elsie's case was mismanaged and shuffled regularly from investigator to investigator. Authorities initially believed that Elsie could have been a victim of serial killer Robert Pickton who claims to be responsible for 49 murders (all of them women) and was convicted of 6. Unfortunately none of the belongings at Pickton's farm could be positively identified as Elsie's and her DNA was not found either.

Elsie remains missing.

DOB: 01/11/1952
Description: Elsie was 5'6 and 131 pounds at the time of her disappearance. She has black hair and brown eyes. Some agencies spell her last name "Sebastien."

Tribal Information: Elsie is a member of the Pacheedaht First Nation in British Columbia.

If you have any information regarding the disappearance or whereabouts of Elsie Sebastian, you are encouraged to contact the Vancouver Police Departmant at 1-877-687-3377.

Justice for Native People: Elsie Sebastian, Missing from British Columbia since 1992.

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

Elsie Sebastian, 40, used to dance around the house with her daughter, listening to Kenny Rogers. Family says they saw her for the last time in Vancouver, around 1992. The Vancouver Police Department is investigating the missing persons case.

Elsie Sebastian was the kind of woman who danced around the house with her daughter, listening to Kenny Rogers.

“Oh, she was a lot of fun,” said her daughter, AnnMarie Livingston.

“We’d play The Gambler and house clean, you know?”

Elsie was a member of the Pacheedaht First Nation, but she didn’t spend much time there as a child — she was sent to residential school.

As a teenager, she was boarded with a family in Shawnigan Lake, B.C.

At 16, Elsie had her first baby: A son, who was raised by extended family.

When she was 21 she had Livingston, who says she doesn’t remember her parents being together as a couple; they split up when she was young.

When Livingston was four, she went to live with her dad and grandma.

Elsie got married, had two more kids and Livingston says her mom struggled.

“She was with Bob for a long time and then it got really rocky. They couldn't salvage their relationship,” she said.

“She really was starting to, I think, suffer from her own stuff and, you know, her baggage and pains.”

According to Livingston, alcohol and drugs were part of that struggle.

Eventually, Elsie ended up living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where her family says she got involved with the sex trade to support her addiction.

Livingston says the last time she saw her mom was in 1990 or 1991.

“I remember I was just about to graduate from high school,” she said.

“I went to visit her, and she was actually living in an apartment at the time.”

According to documents from the B.C. missing women’s inquiry, Elsie was last seen by family in 1992.

Despite multiple attempts, the family says they weren’t able to get an official missing persons report written up until 2001.

The struggle to have Elsie’s case recognized was called into question at the B.C. missing women’s inquiry.

Livingston remembers a disappointing experience with police, even after they took her mom’s case seriously.

When asked if she has a point of contact with the Vancouver Police Department in 2015, Livingston says she has to try not to laugh.

“There has been so many that I have no idea,” she said.

“I don't even know. I don't even remember. There were so many. It was like every few months, or six months, or every year, and then every second year a new one. And then now, nothing.”

Livingston says there was a flurry of activity around her mom’s case when Robert Pickton was arrested and police were searching his Port Coquitlam, B.C. property.

“In the beginning, like, way back in the days of the farm, it was all about the farm, and there was this real serious, gung-ho attitude,” she said.

But Livingston says her mom’s DNA was never found on the Pickton property, nor were any of her belongings. At least not that the family could identify.

“I mean, there's just so much stuff. Like, literally hundreds of purses and shoes and jewelry and wallets... It was so hard to take. It was traumatizing.”

When asked if she’d support a federal inquiry into Canada’s missing and murdered indigenous girls and women, Livingston says no, unless the families are allowed to make meaningful contributions to the process.

“I think if, you know, we could do something like that and have the families...have a legitimate role in that process, then I would agree,” she said.

“But, if it, again, another study, another big newspaper story or news thing that they play again and again and again, it's just a waste of time.”

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/elsie-sebastian

 

[spartanx]

Does she have any relation to the "highway of tears"? I have the impression that Pickton has nothing to do with this case... I think it was another individual and perhaps since she worked in the sex trade and was also addicted to drugs... she was surely strangled, beaten and killed... perhaps thrown from a car into some forest and devoured by the elements of the forest... I don't think she was bad but the circumstances of life dragged her to that...
whatever the case
rest in peace

 

[Pennysmom1]

Please Help Locate Elsie Louise Jones Sebastien

Elsie has not been seen since October 1992

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Elsie Louise Jones Sebastien
NCIC Case Number: M-621912644
Missing since: October 1992
Missing from: Vancouver, BC
Date of Birth: January 11, 1952
Age at Disappearance: 40 years
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Indigenous
Eye Color: Brown
Hair: Black
Height: 5ft 6in
Weight: 131 lbs

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Elsie Louise Jones Sebastian

Elsie Louise Jones Sebastian. 21 likes. Elsie has been missing since October of 1992. She is the mother of Neil Thomas, Ann-Marie Livingston, Donalee Sebastian and Robert Lee Sebastian.

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[Pennysmom1]

1083DFBC - Elsie Sebastien

Identifiers​

Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown