Vancouver Province - Sep 2, 2002

Summary

Vancouver Province: Mon Sep 2, 2002 (Jason Proctor) Where is Lisa-Marie?

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Where is Lisa-Marie?

People often ask Don and Joanne Young if the worst part of their daughter's disappearance is the not knowing. And the Nanaimo couple are quick to answer, "No — it's the fact that she's gone at all."

Lisa Marie Young lived next door to her parents. Before she disappeared two months ago, the 21-year-old would show up practically every day wearing her fluffy slippers and a smile, ready for a coffee and a chat.

She even shared a beer in the kitchen with her dad on the night she vanished, and her mom's voice breaks as she recalls the strange silence that fell between husband and wife as Lisa Marie left that night.

"We were just quiet at that time. We looked at each other for a second and watched our daughter walk down the hall," says Joanne.

Lisa Marie's family is hoping a $11,500 reward will lead to information needed to solve the mystery of her Canada Day weekend disappearance. She was last seen climbing into a burgundy coloured Jaguar after leaving a party early June 30*.

On the day she went missing, Lisa Marie had lined up friends to help her move into a new apartment. She was about to start a new job and was looking forward to the weeks ahead.

Police suspect foul play — and while the family continue to hope for a miracle, they're privately bracing themselves for the worst.

"Her disappearance has touched people across Vancouver Island." Her maternal grandfather Moses Martin is tribal chief of the 800-member Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation. He has organized search parties from Coombs to Tofino following leads garnered from tips, hunches and psychics.

"We check everything out," he says. "We're still hanging on to this hope that she's still alive."

Lisa Marie's parents have been postering the island with pictures of their daughter in hopes they will trigger a memory. A psychic has told them that a friend of the person who played a role in her disappearance knows something.

The family is also concentrating efforts on Qualicum Beach, the home of the man police have identified as the driver of the Jaguar.

Police have spoken to the man, now being held in Saskatchewan awaiting trial on a charge of assaulting a police officer. Nanaimo RCMP have issued a warrant for his arrest for breaching a conditional sentence on matters unrelated to Lisa Marie's case.

"We will find the truth about Lisa's disappearance one day," says Const. Jack Eubank. "Somebody does know. Somebody can take us over and around that wall."

Anyone with information about Lisa Marie Young's disappearance is asked to call Nanaimo RCMP.

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Selected clippings from: Vancouver Province Mon September 2, 2002 (Jason Proctor) Where is Lisa-Marie?
File:P20020902a.png		"Chief Moses Martin organized search parties from Coombs to Tofino following leads garnered from tips, hunches and psychics…"
File:P20020902b.png		"She even shared a beer in the kitchen with her dad on the night she vanished…"
File:P20020902c.png		"Lisa Marie had lined up friends to help her move into a new apartment."
File:P20020902d.png		"…Qualicum Beach, the home of the man police have identified as the driver of the Jaguar…"
File:P20020902e.png		"[Adair is] being held in Saskatchewan awaiting trial on a charge of assaulting a police officer…"
File:P20020902f.png		"Her maternal grandfather Moses Martin is tribal chief of the 800-member Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation…"