Family has not given up hope that Indigenous woman who disappeared in Barrie will be found
CBC
Family members of an Indigenous woman who went missing in Barrie, Ont., two years ago say they have never given up hope of finding her.
The family of Autumn Shaganash gathered on Tuesday in Sunnidale Park in Barrie, where Shaganash was last seen, to appeal to anyone with information of her whereabouts to come forward.
"We know that Autumn is somewhere out there and hope that one day soon she will return home to us," Lili Moore, her sister, said as she read from a statement.
Shaganash, 26 at the time, was last seen walking in the park on June 10, 2023 between 10 a.m. and 12 noon, according to the Barrie Police Service. She was wearing tan-coloured leggings, slip-on Puma sandals, a black hoodie and carrying a black and tan Juicy Couture purse.
Surveillance video from a nearby home captured her image walking with a man, each of them carrying a ski. Police have said he told them he was walking a few steps ahead of her and was momentarily distracted. When he turned around, she was gone.
According to the family, Shaganash was on her phone talking to an unknown person on the morning she went missing. Police say, within three minutes of the end of that call, her phone went to voicemail. Police say she used an app and that that they haven't been able to determine who she was talking to.
"We miss you so much, Autumn, and we want you to come home," Moore added.
Moore said the family is grateful that Barrie police continue to focus on finding Shaganash in the hopes of reuniting her with her family.
Kimberly Moore, Shaganash's cousin, said she hopes that Autumn is still alive and that the family still looks for her today.
"I know if she was here and if she could say something, she would be telling us, 'Don't stop looking for me. Don't stop advocating for me,'" she said.
"Autumn, if you do hear this somehow or see this somehow, we're not going to ever stop looking for you."
She said the family has hired a private investigator, and family members would like to see the people who were interviewed shortly after Shagash went missing be reinterviewed. She added that the family searched the park a year ago and found no human remains.
She said she would also like to know who was talking to Shaganash on the phone that morning.
And she added that she would like others to learn from her cousin's case.
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