I played amateur detective yesterday. Jodi Henrickson has been weighing heavily on my psyche since reading an article about the missing, presumed murdered teenager in Vancouver Magazine. I think of that poor girl and her family nearly every day. I’m a mother but still can only imagine their pain and anguish. Crime writer Neil Boyd lives on Bowen Island too and related numerous previously unrevealed facts about the case. I was trying to recall the time of year, or which year a flock of vultures appeared on our property tracking what we were certain was a dead deer. One of our dogs found a piece of hide and a bone. I kept wondering though. Surely someone has information they aren’t divulging, for whatever reason. So while hiking with said canines I ventured off the trail to conduct my own private search. It was the least I could do and necessary to put that nagging doubt out of my mind. It was a long shot but I scoured the salal and undergrowth for about an hour, spooked, and sad, finding nothing much to my relief. That girl is on this island somewhere. I believe that like a law of nature, the truth will always surface, that it’s only a matter of time. I just hope the truth about Jodi’s disappearance is revealed soon so that her loved ones may find whatever peace is possible. The article below just appeared at Find My Child and is written by Jodi’s brother Rob Henrickson:

**Update – January 2011**

Once again, we enter a new year, without any idea as to what happened to Jodi, or where she might be. Many searches were done in the months following her disappearance, yielding nothing that could locate Jodi. Then, in march of 2010, the case was officially changed from a missing person case to a homicide investigation. In addition to this, another search was conducted on Bowen Island in mid July, which I attended as a spokesperson for my family. Now, almost 2 years later, the search for Jodi remains at essentially the same place as it did when it began: without the slightest idea of what happened to her.

In the January issue of “Vancouver Magazine,” another news article about Jodi was published, providing a very detailed summary and analysis of the case. I would suggest anyone that is interested in the case take a look at this article, I was personally interviewed for around two to three hours in September 2010.

Our family now remains completely helpless, time goes by and yet we still know nothing of what happened to Jodi. Another holiday season has come and gone, and once again without Jodi, leaving something missing where Jodi’s happy attitude and energy use to be. There isn’t a single day that goes by that I don’t think about Jodi, and how completely helpless my family and I are in the face of all this. All I can do, as I have many times before, is ask that if anyone does know something, please come forward. Even if it seems like the most useless piece of information, please come forward, it may very well be the key to ending what has already gone on much too long.

Thank you very much for all of your support so far, it really means a lot to my family and I, making the entire situation at least slightly less bleak.

-Rob James Henrickson