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Have you seen Jodi?

Police and family members are asking for help in their search for 17-year-old Jodi Henrickson of Brackendale.

Henrickson was reported missing Wednesday, June 24, and was last seen June 20 between 4 and 6 a.m. after bouncing between two Bowen Island house parties with friends.

“There was lots of foot traffic between the two parties [which were] a fair distance apart,” said RCMP Cpl. Dave Ritchie. “They were in the dispersal stage going different directions, and she was with people we’ve identified and spoken to that she was last seen with.”

Friends and family have mobilized in their efforts by placing missing posters from Squamish and Bowen Island to as far away as the Okanagan. Friends also created the Facebook group “Let's find Jodi Henrickson!!”

As of today, the group has 391 members and dozens of wall postings offering encouragement and support.

Meanwhile, RCMP is concentrating their search efforts on Bowen Island. The disappearance is entirely out of character for the teenager, said Ritchie.

“We’re still concentrating that Jodi…hasn’t left the island,” he said. “We’re pretty satisfied that…she didn’t utilize the ferries. But she could’ve because the foot traffic is very well video’d, but the vehicle traffic – you can get on without being identified in a vehicle, so we’re still going through tapes and videos with BC Ferries.

“But there’s all sort of other means marine avenues of getting off the island as well and we don’t know that she hasn’t done that. But if she has, why hasn’t she contacted someone? That’s totally out of character. We feel that if she did get off the island she would’ve had some contact with someone.”

Since June 25, RCMP has undertaken air searches, and North Shore Search and Rescue along with tracking dogs joined in for marine and ground searches on Monday, June 28.

RCMP is awaiting a legal means of accessing two private properties, said Ritchie.
Police have also conducted extensive interviews, but they’re having to sort through second hand stories and innuendo, said Ritchie.

“Because it’s a small community they kind of band together and discussed it prior to any of us being involved, so we’re asking them to be individuals and come forward with what they know and what they can identify as seeing themselves as opposed to what people have told them,” he said.

“So we’re just trying to sort through and sift through all the stories, all the ‘What ifs?’ and innuendos and try to get to the facts and determine where Jodi is if we can.”

Henrikson was last seen wearing a black leather jacket, black long sleeve shirt, and blue jeans. Anyone with information is asked to call the RCMP tip line at 604 957-0516 or anonymously at the Crimstoppers hotline, 1-800-222-TIPS.

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