“I feel like… there’s something missing. we’re missing a piece, we’re not connecting something,” Heather Shtuka tells CFJC Today. “Whatever that is, Scott and I aren’t picking up on it, the over 1000 volunteers that have come up, they’re not picking up on it. RCMP aren’t picking up on it. We’re missing something for him to be gone so long with not a trace.”
...“Not a hint, not gossip, not second-hand information. Nothing that’s verifiable since the day that he walked up that door of the house he was at the party at.”
...“It’s frustrating,” Heather says. “Maybe there isn’t anything to tell, and maybe that’s frustrating as well. Maybe it’s just that he walked out and was in the elements and despite our best efforts we are just not searching in the right areas.”
...“[Maybe he went] off the hill, and now we’re searching here and he’s not on the hill,” she says. “It’s boggling to the mind that we have no other information.”
...“We are so emotionally tired,” Shtuka said. “I don’t think I’ve felt so tired, and yet I have to remind myself that this isn’t even about me. I still have the opportunity to get up the next day, and I have the opportunity to enjoy my family and my friends and my loved ones. My son hasn’t had that opportunity, and I would gladly trade places.”
...“We’re going to keep searching until I have no more breath to give. And then whoever is after me will carry on, because he matters. It’s important to know where he is. It’s important to have closure. It’s important to be strong enough to continue to go, even though I don’t want to.”
