CANADA Canada - Sidney Mantee, 32, Nanaimo, BC, Mar 2020 *Homicide investigation* *Arrest*

[UncoolNegated]

This is news from Vancouver Island from May 27th, 2021. It says the RCMP is investigating a "high-profile historical missing-person case" in Nanaimo. The description of the case as "high-profile" and "historical" got me interested. Does anyone have any guess on what case it might be?

Probably, the most famous case from Vancouver Island is Michael Dunahee. His case would be both "high-profile" and "historical." However, his case is associated with Victoria and was likely a child-at-the-playground abduction while the case in the news piece sounds domestic (ie. between a man and a woman).

Another "high-profile" and "historical" case from the greater area is that of Emma Fillipoff. She went missing from Victoria in 2012. I don't know if her case was ever associated with Nanaimo but it's not that far away. Certainly, she would be "high profile" as her case received a lot of news coverage. When a case becomes "historical" as opposed to modern is a matter of opinion but it is nine years ago.

The case of Carmen Robinson might be another "high-profile" one but that's from the Victoria area as well in 1973.

I was thinking Lisa Marie Young might be the case but the news source says that it is not hers. What are the high-profile cases for Nanaimo, please? Feel free to PM me if you don't want to make your opinion public.

 

[musicaljoke]

It will be interesting to see which case they are investigating. Please keep us posted as you find out more.

 

[Sillybilly]

Hmm, local Nanaimo media refers to the case being "from the last year"

RCMP Cst. Gary O’Brien said the searches on Thursday, May 27 are in connection to a historical missing persons case from the last year and foul play is suspected.

 

[cocomod]

I would have said Lisa Marie. Interesting. Waiting to see where this takes us.

@Sillybilly Historical to me would be more than a year. Funny how that changes the look of this case!

 

[cocomod]

Missing people page:

Nanaimo | Missing People Canada

May Ashley Virtue - she was pregnant

 

[UncoolNegated]

Hmm, local Nanaimo media refers to the case being "from the last year"

RCMP Cst. Gary O’Brien said the searches on Thursday, May 27 are in connection to a historical missing persons case from the last year and foul play is suspected.

I understand that yesterday counts as "historical" but I think most would differentiate between "historical" and "contemporary."

 

[No it's not]

CTV News released the name:

Large-scale police search underway in Nanaimo

Family worried for missing Nanaimo man not seen since March

 

[dotr]

July 12 2021
Man missing since March 2020 a victim of homicide, Nanaimo RCMP say

Sidney Mantee was reported missing in October 2020. VIA NANAIMO RCMP
An Indigenous man missing since March 2020 is the victim of homicide, Nanaimo RCMP confirmed Monday.

''The family of Sidney Mantee, 32, contacted police in October 2020, concerned for his safety and well-being. Family members living in Saskatchewan said it was out of character not to hear from him for so long.''

 

[dotr]

Case of missing man now classified as a homicide
''32-year old Sidney Mantee was reported missing by his family last October. In May of this year, dozens of RCMP swarmed Diver’s Lake, and the area around it, in connection with the case. Police divers spent time in the water, but nothing was reported to be found.

An apartment where Mantee once lived, on Rosehill Avenue, was also searched.

RCMP divers were back in the water this past weekend, this time at Piper’s Lagoon and Neck Point.

As the case is an on-going investigation, RCMP have nothing to reveal to the public at this time.''

 

[tarabull]

Also snipped from the link above & BBM for attention to the location of Mantee's residence, fwiw...
... Police also searched an apartment at 220 Rosehill Ave. where Mantee lived for a period of time, O’Brien said.

 

[camrose]

I thought Sidney went missing from Nanaimo - the title of the thread says Vancouver?

Canada-Sidney Mantee, 32, Vancouver, BC, March 2020 *Homicide investigation*

 

[dotr]

I thought Sidney went missing from Nanaimo - the title of the thread says Vancouver?

Canada-Sidney Mantee, 32, Vancouver, BC, March 2020 *Homicide investigation*

Last night i wrestled with which location to include in title, but cannot remember why now, thanks! will alert.

 

[camrose]

Last night i wrestled with which location to include in title, but cannot remember why now, thanks! will alert.

I found it strange that the original missing persons report says he is missing from Ottawa and that his mother was in Nanaimo, but now it's missing from Nanaimo and reported by family in Saskatchewan.

>>On October 2, 2020 Sidney Mantee was reported missing by his mother in Nanaimo, British Columbia. On March 13 or 14, 2021 at approximately 1500 hrs, it was reported that Sidney was last seen at the intersection of King Edward Avenue and Rideau Street in Ottawa, Ontario. Sidney was blocking traffic and seemed confused.<<

Canada's Missing | Case details (rcmp-grc.gc.ca)

 

[dotr]

Noting..
May 28 2021
Police search Nanaimo lake for evidence of foul play in missing person's case
''Specially trained RCMP officers have converged at a lake in Nanaimo to search for evidence in a suspicious missing-persons case.

About 30 officers — members of tactical and forensic identification teams — are searching for a person they believe met with foul play in the past year, RCMP Const. Gary O’Brien said Thursday. The officers are from Nanaimo, elsewhere on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland.''
''Police are also searching an apartment building at the corner of Rosehill and Vancouver Avenue, O’Brien said. “It’s a very detailed search.”

Cross-posted on this Ws thread..
CANADA - Canada- human skull found in Victoria, BC. waterway, Feb. 2021

 

[YaYa_521]

Arrest but no word on whether Sidney's remains have been located.

Nanaimo woman charged with 1st degree murder in case of missing Indigenous man
2022-03-10
A 26-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree murder and indignity to human remains in the alleged 2020 murder and disappearance of Sidney Mantee in Nanaimo according to the Nanaimo RCMP.

Paris Laroche of Nanaimo was arrested on Wednesday and remains in custody. She is scheduled to next appear in Nanaimo Provincial Court on March 21.
#more at link

Former girlfriend charged with first-degree murder of Nanaimo man - Kelowna Capital News

• Mar. 10, 2022

In May 2021, forensic investigators were at an apartment building at the corner of Rosehill Street and Vancouver Avenue, and RCMP also closed Diver Lake Park as part of the same investigation. At the time, police said the case related to a missing person who they believed had met with foul play.

In July, RCMP divers searched the waters near Pipers Lagoon and Neck Point parks and police revealed that those searches, as well as the ones in the spring, were related to the case of Mantee.

Woman, 26, charged with murder of Nanaimo man missing for two years - BC News

Two searches were conducted. In May of 2021, about 30 specially trained officers, including an underwater-recovery team, searched Nanaimo’s Diver Lake for Mantee’s body and other evidence. Then RCMP divers searched waters off Nanaimo, at Neck Point Park and Piper’s Lagoon. They would not say whether Mantee’s body was found in the ocean search.

 

[YaYa_521]

Woman charged with murder, indignity to remains of missing Nanaimo man
SBM
*Video at link*

During those searches, neighbours told CTV News that police were asking them about Mantee. Neighbours also said that he lived with a woman in the apartment, and that it was common to hear screaming arguments coming from the unit. "The screaming was like death defying screams, you know?" said one neighbour. "It wasn't just like, get out of here screams. Someone was [angry] about something."

Sidney Joesph Mantee - FB page
Paris La Roche - FB page
ETA - Paris La Roche - FB page (2013)

 

[IslandGirlTC]

The Sidney Mantee case has now turned into a murder investigation. His girlfriend is accused of killing him.