Frost still missing after 39 years

Written by Frank Peebles
Citizen staff
Thursday, 15 October 2009

Helen Frost is still missing and still loved by her family, 39 years after she disappeared from Prince George.

Tuesday was the anniversary of her disappearance in 1970 and on Saturday she would have been 57. Her parents in Nanaimo still hope for the day Frost walks through their door and sister Sandy Barnet, now living in the Lower Mainland, still remembers when the two were living with a friend on Queensway when Frost didn't come home one day.

"She left in the evening. I didn't contact the police until two days later, because I didn't know what was going on until then, and there was nothing done in the media, no posters put up, zero. That's just the way it was done back then," Barnet told The Citizen. "And being young myself back then, I didn't know there was any way to push. We just went ourselves out looking. The police back then didn't do anything. Maybe they (police) discuss it, but there doesn't seem to be any new rocks to turn over."

Barnet wonders why Frost was never put on the Highway of Tears list like other missing women from around the region, dating back to about the same time.

On the other hand, she has no evidence Frost met with foul play, and on two occasions in the 1970s - once in Nanaimo and once in Cranbrook - good friends believed they sighted the missing girl, but these were not confirmed.

"To be clear, this investigation has never ceased, it has always been something we have worked on, but sometimes we get new directions to go in, so we would like to bring this to public attention again," said Prince George RCMP spokesman Const. Gary Godwin.

Frost was a troubled girl, said Barnet. The two sisters lived together with a friend in a Prince George apartment. The friend had a baby, and Frost had recently given birth to a child that she gave up for adoption in May of that year. However, the family ties were strong, there was a support network that was in place, and Barnet said it still is.

"My parents and I are on excellent terms; they were on good terms with us then, too, we lucked out on the draw and have great parents," she said. "They were in Nanaimo, and they're in the same house to this day. Us girls had some rebellion going on as teenagers but nothing out of the ordinary, but that was over, we were on our own by then. Helen was 17, I was 19."

Anyone who knows anything about the activities of Helen Frost in October, 1970, or her whereabouts is asked to call Prince George RCMP at 250-561-3300, or give the information anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS / www.pgcrimestoppers.bc.ca

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MISSING PERSON, Maggie Burke vanished without a trace.

MAGGIE LEE BURKE

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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Project KARE and the Edmonton Police Service are seeking public assistance in locating Maggie Lee BURKE.

BURKE, a missing person, is described as a 21 year old Aboriginal female,170 cm or 5' 7" tall, weighing approximately 55 kg or 120 lbs. She had brown eyes and
naturally brown hair with red streaks at the time she was last seen, December 09, 2004. She was reported missing to the Edmonton Police Service on December 18, 2004.

At the time of her disappearance BURKE was engaged in the sex trade industry, a high risk lifestyle, in the area of 118th Avenue in Edmonton. The Project KARE Proactive Insurgence Team in cooperation with Edmonton Police Service and community organizations in the Edmonton area have been following up on investigational leads, all of which have been met with negative results. Project KARE and the Edmonton Police Service are treating this case as a missing person where foul play is suspected and as such are issuing an appeal to the public for any information that
might assist in locating BURKE.

Police are requesting anyone that has any information on the location of Maggie BURKE or may have seen her after December 09, 2004 to call Project KARE, toll free at 1-877-412-KARE(5273) or the Edmonton Police Service at 423-4567 or Crime Stoppers, toll free.

If Ms. BURKE becomes aware of our interest she is encouraged make contact with investigators.

New contact phone number: 780.634.4511 or email: aprilpride@hotmail.com

Maggie Lee Burke

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