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<div style="font-family:serif; font-size:1.25rem; margin:15px 10px 5px 10px; white-space:no-wrap; text-align:center;">''&ldquo;Nothing's come up that<br>would suggest foul play,<br>we just don't know<br>where she is.&rdquo;''</div>
<div style="text-align:right; font-size:80%; font-family:sans-serif;">&mdash;Nanaimo RCMP Cst. Murray Conway<br>
July 4, 2002</div>
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== Summary ==

Lisa had been missing 10 days before RCMP conceded that she may have <q>met with foul play</q>.
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== Detail ==

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Lisa's family and friends were immediately worried that something had happened to Lisa, and their reasons to worry compounded as each day passed with no visible RCMP investigation underway.

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=== Reasons to <q>suspect foul play</q> ===

<span class="info"></span>See also: '''''[[Reasons to suspect foul play]]'''''

'''<u>Monday July 1<sup>st</sup></u>'''
* Failed to show up for plans with her father{{CH20040418}} and friends{{P20020902}} to move her into her new apartment{{NDN20060425}}
* Calls were going straight to voicemail{{NDN20020704}} <small>(she always ensured her phone was charged)</small>{{HSS20120515}}
* This was uncharacteristic for Lisa{{NDN20020709}} <small>(normally she was very responsible){{NDN20021104}}</small>
* None of Lisa's many friends knew her current whereabouts{{CD20210505}}
* Some said they saw her with an unknown man driving a Jaguar{{P20020915}}
* [[#Lisa's final call|Final call]] from Lisa: <q>He won't bring me back...</q>{{CN20210505}}
* [[#Lisa's final text|Final text]] from Lisa: <q>They won't let me leave...</q>{{CTV20230627}}

'''<u>Tuesday July 2<sup>nd</sup></u>'''
* Failed to show up for her 1<sup>st</sup> day at a new job{{SP20040515}} <small>(where she'd pushed for a sooner start date){{Hand1}}</small>

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==== Lisa's final call ====

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Lisa's final [[Lisa's last phone call|phone call]] was a message to her friend Dallas <span style="font-size:90%;">(who'd been waiting at the Cathers Lake houseparty for Lisa to return)</span>: '''''"I don't know what's going on... We're sitting in a driveway on Bowen Road and this guy won't bring me back."'''''{{TS20160806}}{{CN20180326}}
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<span class="info"></span>See also: '''''[[Lisa's last phone call]]'''''

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==== Lisa's final text message ====

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Lisa's final text message to Dallas at 4:30am read, '''"Come get me, they won't let me leave."'''{{HSS20210702}}  Some might consider details like these to be sufficient reason for RCMP investigators to "suspect foul play".

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<span class="info"></span>See also: '''''[[Lisa's last text message]]'''''

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== See also ==
* '''Next''' ➜ '''[[RCMP failed to check cellphone records]]'''
* List of all issues on '''''[[:Category:Lisa's List of Fifty|Lisa's List of Fifty]]'''''



== Sources ==
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[[Category:Lisa's List of Fifty]]
[[Category:RCMP negligence]]
[[Category:RCMP delays]]
[[Category:RCMP quotes]]