aThousandYearsWide
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Geoffrey Dowding
Excerpt from Meredian Booster:
"In 1987, 15-year-old Geoff Dowding told his dad that he planned to hitchhike from their home in Maidstone to B.C. to visit family at Williams Lake. Geoff's birth mother had passed away when he was young, and there was often friction between him and his new stepmother. Chris knew his son had the same independent, free-spirited qualities as his old man, and he reluctantly agreed to allow his son to set out on his own, a decision he would come to regret for the rest of his life. Chris could never had predicted that when he dropped his son off by the highway that summer day, he would be saying his final farewell.
'I made the sad mistake of letting him go like I did. I hitchhiked across Canada in my early years, and I figured that's what he was doing, Chris said. 'He was like his dad, kind of a young hippie at heart. Good attitude and really easy going.'
Geoff made it to Williams Lake, and after a brief stay, left for the Okanagan. Months passed, and although he often wondered, Chris assumed Geoff had simply moved on with his life, and never looked back so he never filed a missing persons report. But he always half-expected the phone to ring one day."
On September 22, 1987, a couple walking a dog found human remains in the heavily wooded Knox Mountain Park in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
http://www.meridianbooster.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2427006&archive=true (article Not found 404)
Footprints at The River's Edge: 09/22/87: Geoffrey Dowding, 15, Kelowna, BC, Canada
Geoffrey John Dowding
This victim was located on September 22, 1987 in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Seventeen-year-old (article lists him as fifteen?) Dowding had been living on the streets after moving to Kelowna a few months before his death, and the circumstances surrounding his death are suspicious. He was positively identified in November of 2002.
The Doe Network: Identified
