CANADA Canada - Sindy Ruperthouse, 44, Val-d'Or, QC, 23 April 2014

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CORRECTION, MISSING 2014, sorry!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sindy-ruperthouse-surete-du-quebec-reward-1.3378322

Quebec provincial police have issued a $40,000 reward for any information that can solve the case of Sindy Ruperthouse, the Algonquin woman whose disappearance heightened concern about the treatment of aboriginal women in Val-d'Or.

The Sûreté du Québec issued a release Wednesday describing Ruperthouse as five foot four inches tall and 131 lbs, with brown eyes and black hair.

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After her case received widespread attention, the SQ announced this fall it was investigating her disappearance as a homicide, even though her body has not been found.

The Grand Council of the Cree has also offered a $50,000 reward to anyone with information on Ruperthouse's whereabouts.

 

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Abuse allegations in Val-d'Or stemmed from Sindy Ruperthouse disappearance
CBC News Posted: Oct 31, 2015 12:46 PM ET
Last Updated: Oct 31, 2015 12:46 PM ET

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"The months have been long, long since April 2014. Me and my wife, we went to Montreal, we went to Ottawa, everywhere. We even went to Radisson, Chisasibi, up north to search for her," says her father, Johnny Wylde.

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It's been a year since Ruperthouse, 44, of Pikogan (north of Val-d'Or) went missing. The circumstances of her disappearance have not yet been uncovered.

She was last seen in a Val-d'Or hospital in the spring of 2014, where she was recovering from being beaten up.
And then she was gone.

[...]

When Enqûete began examining the investigation into Sindy's disappearance, they heard about leads that hadn't been followed up and a family who drove all weekend, every weekend in search of their daughter.

This past week, the Grand Council of the Cree offered a $50,000 reward to anyone with information on Ruperthouse's whereabouts.much more at the link

 

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Hhttp://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profile/sindy-ruperthouse
[h=1]SINDY RUPERTHOUSE[/h]

Sindy Ruperthouse, Algonquin, was last seen April 23, 2014 at the hospital in Val D’or, Quebec. She had been beaten up and had multiple broken ribs. The 44-year-old from Pikogan has not been seen since. In her last conversation with family, Ruperthouse asked for money. It was a large amount, according to her mother, Émilie Ruperthouse Wylde. who also said her daughter had been beaten by her boyfriend. When Wylde refused to give her the money, Ruperthouse said she would call again later. She never did. Her parents have accused the Sûreté du Québec of failing to take her disappearance seriously. Police reopened Ruperthouse's case following an investigative report by Radio-Canada. They say they’re treating her case as a murder investigation.​

 

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March 11 2018
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-mmiwg-ruperthouse-1.4569651

A billboard with the photo of Sindy Ruperthouse outside her hometown of Pikogan, Que., 75 kilometres north of Val-d'Or, where she was last seen in April 2014. (Julia Page/CBC)

As MMIWG convenes in Montreal, families of missing women travel from far and wide to tell their stories

[h=3]Sindy Ruperthouse’s family helped prompt a provincial commission. Now, they’re speaking on a national stage[/h]

Early one morning later this week, Johnny Wylde will pack up his car and travel 600 kilometres to Montreal to tell the story of how his daughter went missing — and how police have not yet solved her case.

Wylde, his wife Émilie Ruperthouse-Wylde and their two daughters, live in the Algonquin community of Pikogan, north of Val-d'Or. Like other families across Quebec, they're planning to make the trip to the big city to attend the hearings into murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.

Wylde's daughter, Sindy Ruperthouse, disappeared in April 2014.

"I want to tell the real story, the real story we're living," Wylde said in an interview.

Ruperthouse was last seen at the hospital in Val-d'Or.

Wylde said he will focus on the federal inquiry this week. He isn't certain yet if his testimony, scheduled for March 14, will be open to the public, but he wants it to be. "I want people to know what's happening," he said.

Wylde, for his part, said he hasn't prepared any comments.

He doesn't need to.
"We've been living with this for four years," he said. "I know what I want to say."

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

Sindy Ruperthouse (Born 1970) was a woman who wasn't reported missing until September 2, 2014.



Age 44
Race First Nations
Sex Female
Location Val D'Or, Quebec
Disappeared April 22, 2014
Missing for 7 years
Height 5'4"
Weight 130 pounds
Classification Suspected homicide

Characteristics

• Long, brown hair.
• Brown eyes.
• A dark complexion.

Case
While the National Center for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains (NCMPUR) reports that Sindy was last seen at a meeting with a local resources center on April 22, 2014, most news outlets report that Sindy was last seen in the emergency room for three broken ribs at the Val D'Or hospital on April 23, 2014. She told her family that she was beaten by her spouse, but refused to press charges against him out of fear that he was going to attack her family.

During the last phone call Sindy had with her mother, Emilie Ruperthouse Wylde, Sindy was crying and asked for a large amount of money because she was trying to help her spouse. When Emilie refused to give Sindy any money, Sindy ended the conversation with "I'll call you back later," but hasn't been heard from her family since.

Sindy Ruperthouse

 

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As MMIWG convenes in Montreal, families of missing women travel from far and wide to tell their stories

Sindy Ruperthouse’s family helped prompt a provincial commission. Now, they’re speaking on a national stage

Early one morning later this week, Johnny Wylde will pack up his car and travel 600 kilometres to Montreal to tell the story of how his daughter went missing — and how police have not yet solved her case.

Wylde, his wife Émilie Ruperthouse-Wylde and their two daughters, live in the Algonquin community of Pikogan, north of Val-d'Or. Like other families across Quebec, they're planning to make the trip to the big city to attend the hearings into murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.

Wylde's daughter, Sindy Ruperthouse, disappeared in April 2014.

"I want to tell the real story, the real story we're living," Wylde said in an interview.

Ruperthouse was last seen at the hospital in Val-d'Or.

She had been beaten up by a boyfriend, according to her mother, and had serious injuries, including multiple broken ribs.

She hasn't been seen since she left the hospital.

Frustrated with Quebec provincial police, Ruperthouse's relatives launched their own search, posting billboards and organizing volunteers to comb through the woods.

The family's efforts have had far-reaching consequences, helping to shine a light on policing problems in the Val-d'Or area and, ultimately, prompting a provincial commission into the way Indigenous people are treated by police and other authorities.

The Viens commission, as it's known, is holding hearings this week in Montreal at the same time. The fact that the federal inquiry has scheduled its hearings in Montreal for the same week is a symptom, critics say, of the federal inquiry's mismanagement and lack of communication.

"I want people to know what's happening," he said.

Inquiry beset by controversy
The federal inquiry, beset by delays and controversy, originally didn't have hearings scheduled for Montreal.

Families demanded hearings in the province's biggest city last fall when the commission travelled to the Innu community of Uashat mak Mani-Utenam, nearly 900 kilometres from Montreal, on Quebec's North Shore.

Now, they will be in Montreal all week.

Viviane Michel, head of Quebec Native Women, an umbrella organization representing Indigenous women across the province, commended families for travelling from far and wide to have their voices heard.

Her organization, though, has pushed for the inquiry to take a more concrete approach, to ensure police and other authorities are held accountable for their lack of action.

"We fought a long time to have this commission," she said. "We want to make it work."

Wylde, for his part, said he hasn't prepared any comments.

He doesn't need to.

"We've been living with this for four years," he said. "I know what I want to say."


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-mmiwg-ruperthouse-1.4569651

 

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Sindy is still missing

Canada's Missing | Case details

www.services.rcmp-grc.gc.ca

 

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2015

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sindy-ruperthouse-surete-du-quebec-reward-1.3378322

''Quebec provincial police have issued a $40,000 reward for any information that can solve the case of Sindy Ruperthouse, the Algonquin woman whose disappearance heightened concern about the treatment of aboriginal women in Val-d'Or.

The Sûreté du Québec issued a release Wednesday describing Ruperthouse as five foot four inches tall and 131 lbs, with brown eyes and black hair. ''

 

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stefanovich-mmiwg-commemoration-kitigan-zibi-anishinabeg-1.5127976

Sindy Ruperthouse was last seen on April 23, 2014 in the Val-d’Or hospital in northern Quebec. (Supplied/Johnny Wylde)

May 5 2023

New project will map missing and murdered Indigenous women in Quebec

Researchers will visit communities across the province to meet with families during three-year project.

montrealgazette.com

''New project will map missing and murdered Indigenous women in Quebec​

Researchers will visit communities across the province to meet with families during three-year project.''
Jesse Feith •

''Johnny Wylde has been searching for his daughter for nine years, and yet he says it still feels like she went missing yesterday.
Sindy Ruperthouse, 44, was last seen in the spring of 2014. She had arrived at the emergency room in Val-d’Or badly beaten, with several broken ribs.''
“We don’t know what happened to her, if she’s dead or still alive,” Wylde, 68, said on Friday. “But we always keep hope.”


Wylde was among families who travelled to Montreal on Friday for the launch of a new research project that plans to create an interactive map of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Quebec.


During the three-year project, researchers will visit communities across the province to meet with families and better understand each individual case. Part of the goal is to give families a voice and put a face to the names behind the statistics.''