This is the true story of what happened to Lisa Marie Young, and where she is now. The details presented here are real. Some parts are disturbing. Please forgive my crude video, but this is meant to inform, not entertain.

The Jungle Cabaret

Lisa shared a beer with her Dad1 at her parent’s apartment, on Barons Road2. She said goodbye to her parents, then went home (right next door) to have a quick bath3, and get dressed, before going out. She dressed in all black4:

• black shirt,
• black skirt,
• zip-up thigh-high black leather boots,
• crop black leather jacket,
• small black purse,
• a chain of silver hoops (which wore first as a necklace, and later as a belt)4.

Lisa met up with her friend Dallas5, and the two of them headed downtown, to the Jungle Cabaret, on Skinner Street. It was Dallas’s 23rd birthday6; he’d already been celebrating all day. A group of Lisa’s friends were just leaving, so they had a short conversation outside7, about how the bar was much slower than they’d expected. A man was standing nearby and overheard the conversation. He agreed that the bar was boring, and he spoke of a big house party that was underway. Lisa’s friends then left.

She later said the conversation [which followed] went something like this7:

Chris:	“Hey you wanna ditch this lame bar and go hit a big party?”
Lisa:	“Thanks, but I promised Dallas I’d party with him on his birthday.”
Chris:	“Well then Dallas should come too. Hey Dallas, do you like free alcohol?!”
Dallas:	“Yes, I do!”
Lisa:	“Thanks, but I just got here, and haven’t even said Hi to my friends inside yet.”
Chris:	“No problem, I don’t mind waiting!”
Lisa:	“Thanks, but I’m going to be a while; I’ve got lots of friends!”
Chris:	“That’s okay, take your time, Dallas and I will be right here, whenever you’re ready!”
Dallas:	“Hurry up Lisa!”
Lisa:	“Um okay, I guess.”

Lisa entered the bar, alone, at about midnight.

Chris Adair, the driver of his grandparent’s Jaguar XJ-40 kept Dallas occupied outside with conversation about the car, and about how awesome the party would be.9

Lisa did indeed have a lot of friends; they occupied at least half of the tables in the bar.8 During the next hour, she made her way from table to table, visiting with everyone she knew.

After a while, the driver sent Dallas into the bar to check on Lisa.8 This repeated twice more before Lisa finally agreed to leave [around 1am].11 Lisa had told a friend that she didn’t want to go to the party, but she felt obligated.10

It was a 7-minute drive12 to the house party at 827 Nanaimo Lakes Road,13 next to Colliery Dam Park. They stayed at this party for about an hour, before getting back into the car, and driving to a different party. This one was in the Cathers Lake area14 (another 7-minute drive).15

Soon after arrival at the 2nd party, the driver offered to go buy some food for the group. But he said he needed Lisa to come along to help carry it.16 Lisa agreed to help — but the driver didn’t go get food. Instead, they ended up at a house on Bowen Road.

Around 4:30am, Dallas got a call from Lisa.

[Dallas, August 2002 CHEK News interview] — “…and sure enough it’s Lisa, on her cellphone. I call her back, and she goes, ‘Dallas, I don’t know what’s going on. This guy won’t bring me back. We’re sitting in a driveway, on Bowen Road, and he won’t bring me back, we’re just sitting here.’ She goes, ‘I’m bored, I’m getting pissed off.’”

Many people speculate that the call came from this driveway, at Bowen and Pryde [1588 Bowen Rd]. The owner ran a small construction company. The house was later [purchased and] torn down by the city [for the 2011 Bowen Road Widening Project].

Lisa was next taken to a location in the Departure Bay area. It was at this point that Lisa’s cellphone carrier lost contact with her phone. She’d never turned it off before.

Many people don’t realize: there was a 3rd house party going on that night. This one took place every Canada Day long weekend, at a large home on Departure Bay Road...