A caller documentary is group to lick nan lawsuit of a missing 17-year-old Canadian woman who vanished successful 2009.
Jodi Henrickson, of Squamish, went missing aft attending a location statement connected Bowen Island during nan summertime of 2009 and was past seen pinch her ex-boyfriend, pinch whom she had a turbulent relationship, according to CTV News.
Speculation that her ex had thing to do pinch her disappearance has been whispered for years arsenic he had a tribunal bid to enactment distant from her, but he has ne'er been charged successful relationship to her disappearance.
For nan past 15 years, her family has been near successful limbo pinch her lawsuit remaining unsolved, but documentarian and director Jenni Baynham has been studying it since a friend of a friend told her astir Henrickson.
'I cannot show you really adjacent we are,' she told CTV News. 'I could merchandise [the film] tomorrow, based connected nan accusation we have, but there's a very circumstantial ending that I want to this story, and I don't want to extremity until we get that ending.'
Baynham - whose movie institution typically makes Hallmark-style productions - has spent nan past 4 years interviewing countless family members and friends and wanted to make a movie to springiness Henrickson's loved ones peace.
Jodi Henrickson, of Squamish, (pictured) went missing aft attending a location statement connected Bowen Island during nan summertime of 2009 and was past seen pinch her ex-boyfriend, pinch whom she had a turbulent relationship
For nan past 15 years, her family has been near successful limbo arsenic her lawsuit has ne'er been solved, but documentarian and head Jenni Baynham has been studying it since a friend of a friend told her astir Henrickson. (Pictured: Bowen Island)
It's besides a logic she refuses to waste nan documentary to awesome streaming services - contempt generous offers - she told CTV News.
All she wanted to do was is ace unfastened a acold lawsuit for nan family, and successful nan process, she recovered a batch much accusation 15 years later than nan first investigation.
'Things person happened successful 15 years that hadn’t happened then, truthful they couldn’t person uncovered what we’ve uncovered now,' she said.
She recovered 'more group saying unusual things, much group watching weird things' than initially uncovered.
Part of nan reason, she believes, is that group are older and nary longer person to admit to things for illustration underage drinking - which was prevalent connected Bowen Island.
Many who witnessed seeing Henrickson astatine nan statement were teens erstwhile they were interviewed but are now successful their mid-thirties and much consenting to springiness much accusation than before.
She besides worked pinch retired RCMP Officer Pete Cross, whose last duty had been nan girl's case.
Although neither person entree to Henrickson's lawsuit file, Cross has been looking done his aged notebooks and said to '30 to 40 people' who were connected nan land that night.
'I cannot show you really adjacent we are,' Baynham said. 'I could merchandise [the film] tomorrow, based connected nan accusation we have, but there's a very circumstantial ending that I want to this story, and I don't want to extremity until we get that ending'
Bowen Island (pictured) is simply a tight-knit organization and is protective of its reputation, according to Baynham. But she wants nan organization to cognize she isn't placing blasted connected them, conscionable simply wants to 'let nan assemblage tie their ain conclusion'
'There’s a mates of genuinely brand-new pieces of information,' he told CTV News.
'The witnesses of group that were progressive astatine nan clip person go 15 years older, they person evolved to now beryllium parents, and they're dispersed retired each complete nan place,' he told nan outlet.
'What they callback now is different from what they callback then, they look astatine it from a different group of eyes, which I find interesting.'
Cross continues to nonstop caller leads to nan RCMP's task unit that proceed to analyse nan missing girl's case.
The brace person only encountered astir 'two aliases 3 men' that garbage to cooperate and nan filmmaker believes those men are holding backmost captious information.
'I really, really request those group to respond to my voicemails, my emails, my telephone calls,' she told CTV News. 'It will beryllium anonymous, but we request these group to get america crossed nan decorativeness line.'
Baynham - whose movie institution typically makes Hallmark-style productions - has spent nan past 4 years interviewing countless family members and friends and wanted to make a movie to springiness Henrickson's loved ones peace
The mini land is simply a tight-knit organization and is protective of its reputation, according to Baynham. But she wants nan organization to cognize she isn't placing blasted connected them.
Banyam conscionable simply wants to 'let nan assemblage tie their ain conclusion.'
During her investigation, she has travel crossed 2 group she considers to beryllium suspects - 1 who has since passed distant and 1 whom she has requested an question and reply with.
For now, Baynham and Cross cognize group person drawn their ain conclusions - particularly astir Henrickson's ex-boyfriend, who had battle charges brought by his missing ex - but they opportunity nan grounds is nan astir important.
'People estimate each nan clip connected this stuff, but nan bottommost statement is, you've sewage to travel nan evidence,' Cross told nan outlet.
Until a assemblage is found, they won't cognize for judge what happened to nan missing teen.