No sign of Squamish teen one year later
Jodi Henrickson last seen alive after house party on Bowen Island
By Cassidy Olivier, The Province June 20, 2010 9:13 AM
It's been a year to the day since Henrickson, 17, was last seen by her ex-boyfriend, Gavin Arnott, along a stretch of Miller Road at 5:30 a.m. The couple had been at a house party, but went their separate ways after a fight.
Arnott claims he left her at an intersection along Miller Road and didn't look back. Henrickson hasn't been seen since, leaving her family to agonize quietly as the days stretched into weeks and the months into a year.
Christmas came and went without a word. Her 18th birthday passed quietly in February. Still no answers, still no hint as to where the popular Squamish teen, who was close to her family, might be.
Three weeks ago, she would have walked across the stage with her classmates and graduated from high school, a loss felt by friends and family who posted tearful comments on the Let's Find Jodi Henrickson Facebook page.
"As I and many others walk across that stage tonight we will be thinking of you," read one post. "Whether your here or not you to are a graduate of 2010. Congrats Jodi you made it."
This weekend will be a quiet affair, explained Henrickson's brother, Rob-James, and will likely be spent as a family at his parents' house in Squamish, the unanswered questions not far from everyone's minds.
The not knowing has been the hardest, he says.