CANADA Canada - Maisy Odjick, 16, & Shannon Alexander, 17, Maniwaki QC, 6 Sept 2008

[dreamweaver]

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/girl+poem+Laurie+Odjick/1959142/story.html
A poem to Maisy from her mom.

 

[West]

"Later that evening, the girls hung out with friends in a park, across the street from the Polyvalente high school, where a dance was being held. A 15-year-old boy who was with the girls that night says the girls claimed they’d just smoked crack. He thought they might be joking, though they did seem drunk or high.

At some point between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., Shannon got into a fight with a boy in the group. Shortly after, Shannon and Maisy left together — the last anyone saw of the girls.

Maisy’s Facebook account was last active at 10:31 p.m. that night."
--from Vancouver Sun article

Don't necessarily trust the boy's account of the crack smoking...however, frequent drug use can lead to weight lost (girls are listed as 5'9'' and 130 and 6' and 119-125 on helpfindmychild.net). Perhaps girls left area in altered state to find more drugs? Ran into trouble? Too ashamed to go home once they found out everyone was looking for them?
Just thoughts.

Also, Maisy's FB account being activated at 10:31 PM indicates that at the very least they were probably at one of their homes. I wonder if facebook could have traced what computer they logged on to. I am assuming its a home computer and not at an internet cafe, community center type location because of time of night. Girls were inside somewhere on the computer at 10:30 that night...whose house? Was anyone else there?

 

[dreamweaver]

http://findmaisyandshannon.com/Timeline.html
Timeline from their website.

 

[dreamweaver]

"Later that evening, the girls hung out with friends in a park, across the street from the Polyvalente high school, where a dance was being held. A 15-year-old boy who was with the girls that night says the girls claimed they’d just smoked crack. He thought they might be joking, though they did seem drunk or high.

At some point between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., Shannon got into a fight with a boy in the group. Shortly after, Shannon and Maisy left together — the last anyone saw of the girls.

Maisy’s Facebook account was last active at 10:31 p.m. that night."
--from Vancouver Sun article

Don't necessarily trust the boy's account of the crack smoking...however, frequent drug use can lead to weight lost (girls are listed as 5'9'' and 130 and 6' and 119-125 on helpfindmychild.net). Perhaps girls left area in altered state to find more drugs? Ran into trouble? Too ashamed to go home once they found out everyone was looking for them?
Just thoughts.

Also, Maisy's FB account being activated at 10:31 PM indicates that at the very least they were probably at one of their homes. I wonder if facebook could have traced what computer they logged on to. I am assuming its a home computer and not at an internet cafe, community center type location because of time of night. Girls were inside somewhere on the computer at 10:30 that night...whose house? Was anyone else there?

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From what I have read, family complained that computers were not even looked at for one month.

 

[West]

"Almost a year before she disappeared, Maisy dropped out of school. Laurie knew Maisy was experimenting with marijuana and alcohol.
At 16, Maisy moved in with her 18-year-old boyfriend, an arrangement that lasted about a month. She next moved in with her grandmother.
Maisy made no secret of her desire to get away from Kitigan Zibi. She often spoke about moving back to the Saugeen Shores-Port Elgin, Ont. area, where she lived from 2003 to 2006, and where she still has friends and family. "


"Alexander says his daughter [Shannon] would sometimes leave home for a few days, but not without calling or leaving a note. She spent some months in a foster home at some point in the past few years, but he isn’t clear on the details.
In her later teens, she grew argumentative and angry. After a fight with her principal, she quit school."-- from V Sun article

Probably explains right there the lack of police involvement. Parents are low socio-economic, girls have a checkered past...chalk it up to runaways and move on. Very sad.

 

[WhyaDuck?]

Bumping.

http://hazel8500.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/missing-kids-maisy-odjick-and-shannon-alexander/

 

[WhyaDuck?]

FWIW, a Psychic discussion on the girls:

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=78889752883&topic=10215

 

[WhyaDuck?]

Reward fund is now up to $13,441.

Info on how to donate:
http://www.findmaisyandshannon.com/donations.html

 

[Danaya]

What does everyone think happened? There were several sightings of them in Ontario, maybe they are working the strip there.

 

[LadyL]

Bumping.

http://hazel8500.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/missing-kids-maisy-odjick-and-shannon-alexander/

those are some interesting comments made on Nov.5

 

[LadyL]

What does everyone think happened? There were several sightings of them in Ontario, maybe they are working the strip there.

idk enough yet to theorize
just learned about this so am going to look into it a bit over the next few days & see what else I can find out

 

[Kat]

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/F...ng+hope/3485990/story.html?cid=megadrop_story


By Meghan Hurley, The Ottawa Citizen September 6, 2010 12:19 AM

Laurie Odjick’s hopes were temporarily dashed last November when her missing daughter’s 18th birthday came and went without a phone call.

But she hasn’t given up.

“I’ll never lose hope, never lose hope until they bring me a body or she comes home,” she said. “That’s the only time I will give up on her.”

Much more at link.

 

[luckyducky]

BUMP - doesn't look like these 2 girls have been found yet.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Aboriginal women rally for missing, slain

Aboriginal women marched to Parliament Hill through cold wind and rain to honour missing or murdered native women.

[snip]

Maria Jacko attended the rally for her niece, 16-year-old Maisy Odjick, who has been missing from Kitigan Zibi, Que. — near Maniwaki, about 135 km north of Ottawa — since September 2008.

[snip]

Odjick disappeared along with her friend Shannon Alexander, 17, who is also still missing. Both families have been frustrated with the lack of leads in the case.

More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2011/02/14/ottawa-aboriginal-protest-214.html

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

New online registry for missing children launched

Parents of missing children were given a new tool to help in their search Tuesday.

On the eve of International Missing Children's Day, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection unveiled MissingKids.ca, an online registry allowing parents and the community to search a database of missing children across Canada.

[snip]

Laurie Odjick, mother of Maisy Odjick who went missing from Maniwaki, Que., three years ago, said she wishes MissingKids.ca existed when her daughter first disappeared.

"I was at a loss," she said. "I didn't know where to turn."

Odjick said being able to type in her missing child's name herself is helpful, adding when her daughter went missing she relied on other websites that took up to two months to update.

More: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110524/missing-children-database-110524/

www.missingkids.ca

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Missing Girls' Families Raising Money to Enhance Search

It's been almost three years since teenagers Maisy Odjick and Shannon Alexander went missing, and now the families are trying to raise money to hire an private investigator to shed new light on the case.

More: http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1&nid=79933

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Advocates fight for answers about missing Aboriginal women

Laurie Odjick wakes up and wonders about her daughter Maisy’s disappearance every morning.

“Our family is living a nightmare everyday, but life does go on,” Odjick said.
Maisy has been missing along with her friend, Shannon Alexander, since the fall of 2008. The pair of teenagers disappeared from the Kitigan Zibi First Nation near Maniwaki, Que.

The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) was joined by participants of the Women’s Worlds congress in Ottawa Tuesday to strengthen their crusade against what they call a growing crisis.

More: http://www.torontosun.com/2011/07/05/advocates-fight-for-answers-about-missing-aboriginal-women


Standing up for missing women

About 1,000 women marched downtown yesterday to raise awareness of the high rates of missing and murdered native women in Canada.

More: http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/local/article/909221--standing-up-for-missing-women

 

[summer_breeze]

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinio...een+offender+missing+girls/5269848/story.html

By GARY DIMMOCK, The Ottawa Citizen August 18, 2011

OTTAWA — Police detectives investigating the 2008 disappearance of teenagers Maisy Odjick and Shannon Alexander from a reserve north of Ottawa are now analyzing links to a sex criminal who killed himself last month in the Hull jail after writing a suicide note.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Kitigan Zibi still searching, mourning for missing girls

Family and friends of two missing First Nations teens marked another grim anniversary last night.

http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2011/09/08/kitigan-zibi-still-searching-mourning-for-missing-girls/



Vigil to Mark 3rd Anniversary of Maniwaki Teens' Disappearance

http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1&nid=81420

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

UN to investigate missing aboriginal women

“I have heard nothing.”

Laurie Odjick is at a loss to explain what happened to her daughter Maisy and the teen’s best friend, Shannon Alexander.

[snip]

They say Ottawa has turned a blind eye — a charge the Conservative government denies.

But in late 2011, the United Nations Office for the High Commissioner on Human Rights signalled to the world that not everyone is blind.

The UN has initiated an “inquiry procedure” regarding the missing women.

More: http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/1111907--un-to-investigate-missing-aboriginal-women