‘Let her come home,’ Manitoba mom says, as daughter’s disappearance marks a decade | CBC News
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A Manitoba woman whose daughter disappeared 10 years ago hopes the RCMP’s drive for fresh information will bring the closure she so desperately needs.
Lorlene Bone, who would now be 41, was reported missing on March 9, 2016, Manitoba RCMP said in a Tuesday news release. She had last spoken with her mother 10 days earlier.
RCMP say they continue to receive tips about the member of Sapotaweyak Cree Nation’s disappearance, and investigators follow up on each new piece of information with the hope of solving the decade-long mystery for her family and community.
Bone’s mother says she’s desperate for answers.
“I’ve been having bad dreams and bad thoughts because her birthday was Jan. 18, and then February came around the corner, I felt [even] worse,” Chartrand told CBC News on Tuesday.
“I really need this closure. I really need to [get] my daughter laid to rest.”
The youngest of her six children, Chartrand says her daughter was a mother and powwow dancer. They were living together in Wuskwi Sipihk First Nation, near Sapotaweyak, when she went missing.
“She was a happy, good-looking daughter and she was happy with her kids. She was always looking after her kids,” she said.
Chartrand continues to put up posters of her missing daughter in the town of Swan River in western Manitoba, but she says someone tears them down and rips them up each time. Police are now helping her to make more.
Memorial walk, summer search
Chartrand says her family hopes to search for Bone in Sapoteweyak this summer.
“There’s a new area I want to go to. Nobody went and searched that place when we were there.”
Chartrand says she holds a memorial walk each year on Red Dress Day, May 5, a day meant to raise awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, on Highway 10 in Wuskwi Sipihk First Nation.
“Please help me out,” she said. “Let her come home.”
Sgt. Marnie Carvelli said in the release that numerous searches for Bone have taken place in the last decade, but investigators “continue to look for the one piece of information that gets us the answers we’re looking for, and find Lorlene.”
Carvelli urges anyone with information on Bone’s disappearance to share it with police “no matter how small the detail.”
Anyone who might have information about Bone’s disappearance or details about the days leading up to it is asked to contact RCMP at 204-734-4686, or send an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or online.