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EARLY LIFE:
Amanda Bartlett was calved successful 1979 to Helen Flett Bignell. Part of the Pimicikamak Cree Nation, she spent overmuch of her beingness with the Opaskwayak Cree Nation, adjacent The Pas, Manitoba.
Described arsenic a originative soul, Amanda dreamed of becoming a published author. She loved to work and write, and her bubbly property allowed her to befriend everyone she met. However, her household described her arsenic somewhat naïve and gullible, which enactment her astatine hazard of being taken vantage of.
Amanda was 1 of galore siblings, with her younger sister, Janet, being the 1 she was closest to. The brace spent a batch of clip together, but things changed successful mid-1996, erstwhile Janet and her begetter moved to New Brunswick, separating the pair. According to Helen, this was astir the clip that Amanda started acting retired and spending clip with the incorrect crowd.
Shortly aft Janet near Manitoba, Amanda moved to Winnipeg to be precocious school. This was the past clip anyone successful her contiguous household saw her.
DISAPPEARANCE:
Amanda was past seen by her uncle, Joseph “Smokey” Halcrow, successful the northbound extremity of Winnipeg. They’d tally into each different connected Salter Street, adjacent Selkirk Avenue. Amanda had voluntarily enactment herself successful a radical location tally by Child and Family Services (CFS), successful the hopes of accessing resources, but she’d tally away. Not wanting his niece to beryllium without shelter, Halcrow had offered to fto Amanda enactment with him, but she ne'er showed up astatine his residence.
Weeks aft she was seen by her uncle, Helen received a missive from CFS, which said Amanda had near the radical home. When she contacted officials, she was told that those who worked astatine the residence were nether nary work to travel the 17-year-old, and portion Helen was told the constabulary would beryllium successful touch, she ne'er received a call.
SEARCH:
Despite Amanda going missing successful 1996, the Winnipeg Police Service didn’t commencement moving connected the lawsuit until February 2008. While investigators assertion her disappearance wasn’t reported until then, Amanda’s household says they’d tried connected galore occasions to study her missing, lone to beryllium turned distant by some the authorities successful Winnipeg and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) successful The Pas.
According to Amanda’s family, it was lone erstwhile they secured the assistance of Amnesty International that they were capable to get her classified arsenic a missing person. A documentary titled Stolen Sister had aired connected tv and featured the toll-free fig for the organization. Janet called successful and was connected to Child Find Canada.
In July 2012, the household searched a tract connected the outskirts of Winnipeg, aft receiving a extremity from a medium. That November, the lawsuit was assigned to Project Devote, a task unit dedicated to solving cases of missing and murdered persons successful Manitoba.
Janet and Helen went earlier the MMIWG Inquiry erstwhile it made its halt successful Thompson, Manitoba, successful 2018. They shared however frustrated they were with the probe into Amanda’s disappearance and spoke retired astir however agelong it took for the authorities to instrumentality the missing persons report.
DETAILS:
Amanda Sophia Bartlett went missing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, successful July 1996. She was 17 years old, and what she was past wearing is unknown.
At the clip of her disappearance, Amanda had a mean build, lasting astatine 5’4″ and weighing 152 pounds. She had brown/black hair, brownish eyes, a teardrop tattoo connected the precocious information of her near feature and pierced ears. She had dimples erstwhile she smiled.
CASE CONTACT INFORMATION:
Currently, Amanda’s lawsuit is classified arsenic Endangered Missing.
Anyone with accusation is asked to interaction the Winnipeg Police Service astatine (204) 986-6250. Tips tin besides beryllium called successful via Crime Stoppers astatine +1 (800) 222-8477.
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