Missing B.C. teenager Jodi Henrickson at centre of upcoming documentary
CTV
Henrickson was a 17-year-old girl from Squamish who went missing after a house party on Bowen Island, during the then unusually warm summer of 2009.
A household name she is not, but for many in Vancouver, especially its North Shore region and surrounding islands, Jodi Henrickson will certainly ring a bell.
Henrickson was a 17-year-old girl from Squamish who went missing after a house party on Bowen Island, during the then unusually warm summer of 2009.
She was last seen with her ex-boyfriend, a man two years older who had a court order prohibiting him from being in her company. While a person of interest at the time, there was no conclusive evidence to link him to her disappearance. Her body has never been found. Two missing person posters, depicting a teenage Jodi with side-swept brunette hair, are still tacked to the walls of the island’s RCMP detachment.
Jodi Henrickson was also, says filmmaker Jenni Baynham, a family-oriented social butterfly who was popular in school. She was bubbly, and funny, with a “colourful personality.” She loved to draw.
Contrary to reports, she was neither a troubled girl nor a runaway. Jodi had flaws, like all people do, but she didn’t, says Baynham, “deserve this.”
For four years Baynham has been investigating the teenager’s disappearance as part of an upcoming documentary Finding Jodi.
The filmmaker and former journalist says she is on the precipice of discovering what happened to Jodi in the early hours of that June morning. She has uncovered a new person of interest and has “credible information” that points to where the missing teenager might be.
