Helen Betty Osborne, or Betty to her friends and family was abducted and brutally murdered near The Pas, Manitoba, early in the morning of November 13, 1971. The high school student, originally from the Norway House Indian Reserve, was 19 years old when she was killed.
The Four Persons involved in her murder would discuss her case with anyone who asked including the police. For 16 years, her family was denied justice. Even then, one person was convicted, one was acquitted, one received immunity, and the other was not charged.
Two cousins went missing seven years apart. One was a nearly the end of her pregnancy, but the media was not alerted for 3 months. The other cousin was last seen leaving a friend’s home.
If anyone has any information about the disappearance of Sylvia or Amber Guiboche, please contact Project Devote 1-888-673-3316
If anyone has any information about a missing or murdered indigenous person, please contact your local police or RCMP detachment.
Crime Stoppers, 800-222-TIPS
To reach the National Inquiry by phone, please call the toll-free line at 1-844-348-4119
If you or your family has been affected by this, and need resources, please contact Crisis Line 1-844-413-6649 A national, toll-free crisis call line is available to provide support for anyone who requires assistance. This line is available free of charge, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The RCMP acknowledged in 2014 that there have been nearly 1,200 missing and murdered Indigenous women between 1980 and 2012. Indigenous women’s groups, state the number of missing and murdered to be over 4,000. The confusion about the numbers has to do with the under-reporting of violence against Indigenous women and girls As of the 2016 census, Aboriginal peoples in Canada totaled 4.9% of the national population, In the province is Saskatchewan – the only province to have reviewed its missing persons files for cases involving indigenous women – indigenous women were found to have made up 6% of the province’s population, and 60% of the province’s missing women cases. This episode will be a primer for future missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada.
If anyone has any information about a missing or murdered indigenous person, please contact your local police,RCMP detachment, or Crime Stoppers, 800-222-TIPS, or 800-222-84771
To reach the National Inquiry by phone, please call the toll-free line at 1-844-348-4119
If you or your family has been affected by this, and need resources, please contact Crisis Line 1-844-413-6649 A national, toll-free crisis call line is available to provide support for anyone who requires assistance. This line is available free of charge, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Halifax was devastated on 6 December 1917 when two ships collided in the city’s harbour, one of them a munitions ship loaded with explosives bound for the battlefields of the First World War. What followed was one of the largest human-made explosions prior to the detonation of the first atomic bombs in 1945. The north end of Halifax was wiped out by the blast and subsequent tsunami. Nearly 2,000 people died, another 9,000 were maimed or blinded, and more than 25,000 were left without adequate shelter.
After leaving a local pool hall, nineteen year old Amber Kirwan was suppose to meet her boyfriend at a local store. She last seen on surveillance camera walking towards the store. She is never seen alive again.
A mother reports that her 12 year daughter ran away in a snow storm. After a 14 day search, the daughter is found is a snowbank dead. At first glance, she appears to have been sexually assaulted. However something more sinister occurred. One off hand comment by someone close to her turns a peaceful town on its head.
