Teenager Exhibits Strange Behavior Before Disappearing | Mekayla Bali Case Analysis

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[@estherlev2472]

If a young person asks you for money for a hotel room please sit them down and find out why and do your best to help them.

[@pattih7]

Yes, and call parents, if possible, and /or for help !

[@alicjakrag313]

@@pattih7 Not the best idea as parents might be what they run away from. There is plenty of cases when children are forced back to their abusive parents :(

[@pattih7]

@@alicjakrag313 By calling for help, I was referring to Law Enforcement/Social Servvices, as well.

[@mortishanocturnal71]

Xactly!!

[@Cash4Fruit]

I can’t imagine no follow up questions though I’d imagine the young girl would think of a lie to not raise alarms

[@KrisEhm]

I was born and raised in this town...went to the same high school as her but that was in the late 90s. Yorkton is small , not much to do and every young person's dream was to get out and experience something.. anything. That bus "depot" never had cameras and I recall taking the bus back to Yorkton where if your bus rolled in after midnight, the depot would be CLOSED! So you had to be prepared to have made arrangements for someone to pick you up or have change to call a cab from a payphone outside. I don't blame her for wanting to expand her horizons and see "what else is out there". Unfortunately, I think she encountered the wrong person and had a nefarious ending. Thanks for covering this case, Dr. G.

[@sciencenotstigma9534]

I agree. 😢

[@Sammsy1126]

Yea yea and my Dad tried to kill me for my birthday party to give me the ultimate high. See I was a junkie then so pops tried to give me the ultimate high which was death. Fentanyl wasn’t doing it for me anymore so he actually did try to help me have a great time

[@nev6250]

Yorkton is in the middle of nowhere

[@Seeker0fTruth]

@@Sammsy1126 what the actual fu€k

[@judyfisher3171]

Regina pronounced Ree ji (as I am here) na. Great channel Dr Grande

[@tigercatjones9948]

I would also go with the bad actor, someone groomed her online and made her an active participant in her own disappearance.

[@PoeLemic]

Excellent observation. I said the same above. He groomed her and coaxed into trying to get a hotel room to prove her sexual worthiness to him. But, he then just said, we'll go to my house and you can show me. And, he toyed with her a few days, and killed her when she didn't continue playing his game. Or that's how I would have done it. Sorry, of course, if I was a bad man.

[@orls9068]

I think so too

[@3triplezero0]

People are agreeing that she’s dead but it’s very possible that one of the men she met online is in human trafficking or holding her hostage for himself.

[@WhosAfraidofErikNordingII]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@JJJettplane]

I thought this immediately. I believed she was vulnerable and groomed.

[@Dank455]

I dunno which fate is worse...

[@mildredpierce4506]

I was thinking the same thing. A young girl with no positive male role model desiring male attention could easily be persuaded to join him for "a better life". I can just a imagine that predator love bombing her (which is what romance scammers do) and manipulating her emotionally. There are very evil people in this world and unfortunately, the internet has provided the predators with more access to more victims.

[@jeremytarrant1493]

I think that is the more likely scenario. The survival time of those girls isn’t great, but this seems more like kidnapping for prostitution. Which is awful, but she could still be alive somewhere.

[@loiskondo8349]

A good intentioned man wouldn’t keep her from her family. I think you’re right, she is probably dead. Very sad.

[@PoeLemic]

yeah, she's dead.

[@kevinf8439]

If I remember correctly, Mekayla had a very bad relationship to her mother. That would give a reason why she wouldn't want to talk to her family.

[@barneyronnie]

​​@@PoeLemic So will you, someday... how's that for a polemic😂

[@ReflectionTool637]

She was 16, so in the very unlikely event it was a "well intentioned" guy in his 20s, it would still be legally rape, thus no family contact. Am sure it was a bad actor though. So sad.

[@dajirogenki99]

​@@kevinf8439Mekayla was always close with her mother... I was good friends with her. Do YOU know something the rest of us dont know??

[@victorhugoraga4896]

She was such a vulnerable person 😢 God rest her soul

[@ninaninapasadena5687]

Fathers, show your daughters that you love them, tell them often. If you don’t, some man will come around and tell them they do, even if they don’t! You don’t have to be a perfect Dad, you just need to be there for your children.

[@streaming5332]

She didn't have a father.

[@truthsocialmedia]

Modern women make it almost impossible to be a father.

[@Reeeeeee12345]

@@andrewwood763 That they demonize good men, and worship badboy Chad/Tyrone cock.

[@AndySalinger33]

@@andrewwood763it means modern feminism has disposed of the man, to its detriment. Can you understand that?

[@streaming5332]

@@andrewwood763 dumbo he chose not to be there. No doubt he never wanted a child, just a fling.

[@molliejonte2732]

Also, she could had been told to meet at the bus stop because there were no security cameras. This man knew that the bus stop did not have cameras , and that is why he told her to meet at bus stop. Very sadly , I do not believe she is alive. This man instructed her very well on how not to be tracked, he has probably done this before.

[@wulfsorenson8859]

You know she could of hitched a lift when she was told the next bus would be in 5 hrs.

[@korneliusjansen542]

I doubt that very much. If her abductor ordered her to do this, why did he wait several hours first? Why didn't he direct her to the bus station immediately? In fact, almost every single action Mekayla takes that day makes little to no sense if you assume that a bad actor ordered her to do so. I guess most of her actions that day were on her own volition.

[@RepentfollowJesus]

I think what she was looking for outside was a car coming to get her. I doubt she's alive or at the least has been sex trafficked. She could be in the middle east or who knows where.

[@djg5950]

@@korneliusjansen542 She was waiting at the restaurant for a couple of hours texting and making phone calls. She appeared to be looking for someone to come pick her up. I'm sure the guy was full of excuses of why he wasn't there yet. He may have even been driving by the restaurant and decided that it was too risky to pick her up there, so he told her to go to the bus depot and take a bus to Regina. That could have been a ploy to lure her away from a business with security cameras. He may or may not have known the bus schedule. It wouldn't have mattered either way because if she did catch a bus to Regina he could have followed it back to that city and abducted her there instead. I'm guessing that he abducted her somewhere near the bus depot. I don't know how Mollie knows what the abductor knew or didn't know (no security cameras at the bus depot?) but he may have known that or just lured her away from it instead. So far he's gotten away with her murder. That was almost 7 years ago. He's probably a serial killer and will eventually get caught and they may be able to connect him to this disappearance (they only suspect these types of other murders but unless they confess - very few do - they have no proof in most of these cases).

[@christinamichelleee]

@@korneliusjansen542 not if she was having second thoughts the entire time. It seems like she was having an internal struggle

[@Dan-oj4iq]

Teenagers, who are bullied due to a physical différance, are many times prone to taking this to extreme levels. They seek perfection and acceptance. Being different even over minor and temporary things are many times traumatic and life altering. This is magnified in our world of social media.

[@matthewdavenport2490]

Thank you for covering this case, her disappearance has haunted me since I first saw the news of it many years ago. Her young mind seemed so searching and so lonely and so lost, it is devastating to imagine her final hours and moments.

[@cottontails9003]

What a tragic situation. I personally believe she met a man she met online and left with the man, I wonder if the man wanted to harm her , I don't believe she's still alive. Thank you Dr Grande. Brilliant analysis, tragic outcome and informative topic.

[@bthomson]

Hi CT - So many sightings with chances for changing her mind! If only that hotel room had come through or bus had been timely! Too much bad luck! Hope you and family are well! Dr. Grande keeps us going!

[@pricklypear7516]

Isn't it more likely that she met some random guy (maybe a very young fellow) online and made all these plans that kept falling through because he was, in fact, too young to accomplish them? She kept waiting and watching, and even checked on a bus ticket but, ultimately, when he couldn't get to her as "planned" (maybe more wishful thinking on her part than actual intention on his), she decided to hitchhike to him. THEN she encountered a bad actor. This hypothetical "man" derives only from a friend's statement that Mekayla claimed "a man" was coming to meet her (which simply doesn't sound like the way girls talk. "A guy" would have been more natural) and Dr. Grande's rather tenuous suggestion of her "lack of a reliable male figure in her life."

[@Broskibrother]

she could've possibly hitch hiked or in some other way ran into someone with bad intentions while attempting to travel to meet the person. Either way its pretty likely she was going to meet a guy whether he had intentions himself or she got caught up on the way there

[@Ashley-zq5ch]

@@pricklypear7516 the issue with that is anyone who has planned to meet her and had only good intentions would have come forward by now in an effort to help find her, surely.

[@barneyronnie]

I'm sick of lowlife scum harming vulnerable people; I wish one of these losers would try to harm me!!

[@HJG-1019]

I have watched many of Dr Grande's videos- but this one made me cry. I saw my own life sooooo many years ago where l ran away from home. Thankfully the police "found me" a few weeks later. _(I had left NJ and was brought by an older man in his mid 20's to NYC)_ Any number of negative outcomes could have been my future. It was a very dysfunctional home life that made me leave. I was only 13 or so when l ran away.. That was many decades ago and the world is no safer place . I cried because l know what it's like to be her age, to be so confused and to believe help or a "better life" is _out there_ somewhere~

[@barneyronnie]

What happened to the 'man?' Was he a pervert?

[@HJG-1019]

@@barneyronnie I just went and typed a reply to you and when I looked back it's not there. Tell me if you see it... if not I will have to redo the lengthy message I just sent you. Not the first time I've seen KZbin screw up

[@barneyronnie]

@@HJG-1019 Indeed, it is a rather common occurence.

[@spazmonkey3815]

There is New jersey again (I live in New Jersey and get a a kick how Dr.Grande puts it down). The Ocean town in southern NJ where I live is beautiful. I believe Dr. Grande secretly loves New Jersey.

[@kristentrep5038]

I think you could bring a lot to more missing persons cases dr grande! I know it’s not your typical genre, but it never hurts to have more eyes on them!

[@SirXer]

Agreed!

[@Fefe559]

Omg GOOD IDEA!! Once a week at least This BREAKS MY HEART This poor girl

[@kristentrep5038]

@@Fefe559 I hope maybe he’s considering doing more!

[@jakegarvin7634]

I live in Sarnia, ON and a few months back we had some people trying to lure kids away for sex slavery ...kinda sounds like what happened

[@jakegarvin7634]

I bring this up because it involved mystery extra cell phones

[@nickyblue4866]

😳😳😳

[@dammar117]

Yes, I thought the same. Strange that Dr Grande didn't think of that.

[@sunnycatc6491]

That was my first thought too. This predator was a pro, I don't think it was a one-time thing. I hope she gets away and recovers, poor girl.

[@PoeLemic]

@@sunnycatc6491 Yes, they're Pro's. And, they groomed her well. She was guillable and bought into it.

[@jamesoncross7494]

So sad. Another beautiful young person that didn't understand their worth.

[@amelia_k1082]

That story is utterly gut-wrenching!! Her mother must be sick with worry over Mekayla. These stories always have a way of reminding me of how grateful I am that my children are grown young adults, now in their mid-30's. I don't know if I could even manage to cope if this happened with one of my sons. I hope the theory of her running away with a Prince Charming and living happily ever after is the case, but sadly, I don't think it is. I think if it were the case, she would've reached out by now.

[@juliuscee4633]

I reckon it's really rare for somebody to go missing in such a manner for such a long time without any trace

[@byBeauxARTFULIVING]

i have often wondered if the "man" sent makayla fake docs showing he deposited 5k in her bank acct. she was definitely meeting up with someone and im sure he was tracking her , watching her the whole morning. there has to be some kind of digital contacts trail between she and the "man", but im sure law enforcement forensics have tried their best to find such. Praying for Makayla and all whom love her.

[@celeca7]

@@craigkennedy5104 about like your helpful comment. What an @$$ hole

[@mikehoben7341]

@@craigkennedy5104 Soooo edgy

[@lindseyhudson1274]

This one has always seemed so sad to me. I agree that she's probably dead and it's awful that there are zero suspects.

[@PoeLemic]

Yeah, she's dead, and by utilizing phone apps, she did not allow law enforcement to have any clues as to how to catch the killer.

[@amelia_k1082]

@@PoeLemic Or where to even LOOK for the killer. I agree, if she were alive, she would've reached out to someone, either friends or family by now.

[@enterthevoidIi]

she's probably married by now and don't want to be found

[@TheChosenAlchemist144]

@@KA-in6sx ^^^

[@robswystun2766]

Unfortunately, it seems that Mekayla encountered a rare smart criminal.

[@batmang9014]

I lived in Yorkton when she went missing. This shook the town it was fricken diabolical. I'm glad a youtuber with a big following is finally talking about this case. I've been trying to get people to revive the case. Thank you

[@BrainDamageComedy]

the diner she was last seen in 'doesnt have cctv' thats very very unusual. i'd be talking to the owner of that place - seems like it could be lie about not having cameras/ they had cameras and they were removed. thats the only weird thing i hear of - i live in a tiny scottish town and the local paper shop/ corner store has cctv....

[@batmang9014]

@Tax is Slavery Boxing the people that owned/own the restaurant are on the older side. It was attached to the grey hound bus stop. They had no need for cameras

[@gobert9316]

That’s a common thing here in the US. The UK and China have the most cameras per sq ft in the world, seems like most of Europe probably does too. I work at a huge chain restaurant & bar in a big/wealthy suburb a few mins from a major city. There are zero cameras, inside or outside my work.

[@barbparker6129]

CCTV is much more common in the UK than in Canada. This is a mom and pop type of restaurant in a small town. It’s not even a little bit unusual that they wouldn’t have CCTV.

[@gobert9316]

@@barbparker6129 Canada is a very high trust society (results of homogeny) they have a rep for being kind to eachother and the common lore is that they don't lock their doors or cars

[@Suedetussy]

I feel so sad for this girl. I hope that she will be found and that man, who lured her away, will be caught. As heart-wreching as this story is, it was very important that you covered this story to make people aware of such situations.

[@anthonyjenkins2001]

Chances are she's dead

[@iloveallthepeople]

I had a friend who got "romantically" involved with a man online when she was 12 or 13. She went for a "date" with him and was abducted. It was a guy in his late twenties and his friend, I think they may have been meth heads. She went to a couple of different areas and at some point they saw a car on the shoulder of the interstate and they stopped to steal the sound system from that car which didn't fit in the trunk or something like that so she had to ride in the trunk and they saw the man walking down from the nearest exit with a gas can yelling at them so they piled in and I guess the angry guy threw something that broke a window or something like that then they stopped somewhere and before they left the cops intercepted them and they found her. She was like 3 states away. I met her the next year and she never told me about it until 15 years later. Crazy stuff. She said the cops said they had abducted a few other girls, I didn't ask what happened to them

[@davidmckayii752]

You have a positive screen name.

[@Spudcore]

Jeepers, that's scary. It was lucky for her that they were stupid enough to try robbing the car stereo and attracting the cops.

[@aethrya]

Man that's wild

[@DerkuiDerkui]

Oh yes! This is one of those compelling disappearance cases and you covered it well. Thank you!

[@robswystun2766]

When I drive back to my hometown, I always stop at a rest stop not too far from Yorkton and Mekayla's missing posters are always there. They're haunting to look at. Not that it matters, but for future reference, the I in Regina is long. (Yes, we're aware of what that makes it sound like, thanks.) For more tragic Saskatchewan content, you should look into the Robert Latimer case.

[@barneyronnie]

Did you abduct her?

[@lornarafuse7056]

Love your channel Dr. Grande… thank you for your professional analysis of many cases.. just want to say Regina is pronounced RE GINA kind of like the ladies anatomy…. I’m from Canada 🇨🇦❤️

[@X_Baron]

Yeah that's how it's pronounced in real life, but this is KZbin and it may be prudent to play it safe with the automatic speech recognition and avoid such rhymes. 😛

[@TheThora17]

Haha I commented about the same! I’m in Swift Current..

[@heatherfeather6876]

​@@X_Baron that's a good point, I thought he was just saying it strange but he's smart enough to know that it might be buried if he said it like we do.

[@Nataliah3r3]

The sad part is she said on Snapchat (and maybe on some other chat rooms or something) she doesn’t have any friends in real life, and that can really help predators manipulate her and make her a good target. She clearly wanted a boyfriend or friends in general and may have cost her own safety. She is young , trusting and I’m sure wanted to get away for a little. But maybe now forever. I really do hope she is alive, but it’s probably a low chance of that.

[@PoeLemic]

In my opinion, she's dead. I thought that from the get-go. What gave me the indiction, is that she was trying to obtain some extra money and asking for assistance in getting a hotel room. She wanted that possibility (or the man encouraged and/or groomed that out of her) for her to please him and show him that she was worthy. Then, he'd take her away to a better life. Instead he absconded with her, and he killed her for whatever reason he could find for doing that.

[@catslove3884]

Once he took her virginity her value went down.

[@barneyronnie]

Please don't think it, don't say it!!

[@swhitson9633]

Can you please cover the disappearance of Denny Poole? He was a Native American 15 year old boy in Dawson Creek BC Canada who tried to walk to the next town several hours away to meet up with a girl he met online. He took a friend with him. Part way there a passerby called the police about boys acting "suspiciously" but when they got there they could only find the boy who'd been with Denny. There have been massive searches but Denny has never been found. And his story has received almost no coverage since he's an indigenous kid from a small town in Canada. The whole thing is super eery... no trace of him has ever been found even though this happened in 2016 & the areas been thoroughly searched multiple times. I'd love to hear your take on it.

[@tessH]

Kendall Rae does videos of missing indigenous people may contact her too.

[@barneyronnie]

His 'friend' murdered him.

[@kathyflorcruz552]

It doesn't have anything to do with him being certain tribe unless you want to blame tribal leaders corruption & few resources where his happened.

[@whereisCarmenSandiego]

I think that she was lied to and told that $5k was going to be deposited in her account, and when she realized it was a not real she then started making strange decisions and doing things that were “out of character”….I just can’t understand what made her feel like she couldn’t just go back home and move on with her life. So that makes me feel like she was possibly very embarrassed to go back home and face her peers after she made those claims of having all that money and running away for a life of riches and luxury, etc. She probably felt so embarrassed because she didn’t really have any true friends to begin with, and would only be seen as even more of a “weirdo” for lying about the money. So that tells me she was most likely catfished and truly thought she was running off and starting a new life with this handsome and rich mystery man, only to be let down when the mystery man turned out to be some old and creepy loser with no money. That’s my theory. I’m probably wrong, but it’s what I think played out. It’s just a sad case all around.

[@friencheetah]

This is very insightful...whether your theory is true or not, it definitely makes you wonder.

[@FreeThinkAlways]

Or maybe it was a typical case of a teen lying to show off? When I was at school there was plenty of people who would just blatantly make up lies to make themselves sound great

[@dajirogenki99]

I was one of those TRUE friends... so try again!! She would have come to me... something bad happened. She wouldnt have run away.

[@SCH292]

Just me and my own stupid theory okay? She's been catfished. The catfish person is likely using and promise the 5k as bait to bait her out. Luring her place to place, make up excuses why he can't go in person, lure her into areas without cameras and than took her. Think about this..."5k deposited into her account" well the authority can easily track that money and track her account.

[@christinamichelleee]

I have a theory about this case: she met a man online and sent them photos that were “compromising”. They blackmailed her that they would publish the photos online unless she agreed to meet them at a specific time and place- essentially running away from home. And they would likely have convinced her that her life would be in no immediate danger but she likely understood that this was incredibly risky. They would also most likely promise to take care of her. Either that, or they threatened to harm her family and/or friends if she didn’t agree to run away. And now, she is either not alive or has been trafficked.

[@wetsockz3001]

Thats why you dont become an underage wh*re

[@jen30551]

He probably did have compromising photos of her and probably did use them to manipulate her. I think he likely waited until he led her far enough out of town before using that to his advantage. Getting her into unfamiliar territory would make her more likely to comply. No money, strange place, alone and knowing she would be in a ton of trouble. Heartbreaking to think about.

[@GenXfrom75]

I bet the same thing that happened to me happened to her. She met a sicko online (mine was by 1-900 chat line, pre internet) who groomed her and told her a million nice, pretty things and lured her away. Unfortunately, her story didn't end as happily as mine. 💔

[@Seabreeze34]

I hope you are ok. 🙏

[@GenXfrom75]

@@Seabreeze34 I am now. 💞Thank you.

[@GrumpyCat-mw5xl]

Young people want things just like anyone else. They can underestimate their own value. Just because society limits what you can or should do when your underaged doesn’t mean the child isn’t valuable. Unfortunately there are plenty of creeps that will capitalize on a child’s low self esteem.

[@benazizalassaad6909]

All my supports 2 u 🙏🙏

[@FreeThinkAlways]

It states her phone wasnt switched off until the next day in the morning, so couldnt they track its ping signals? It seems strange that if she was abducted that whomever snatched her didnt destroy her phone asap

[@RoseRoseRoseRoseRoseRose]

I just wanted to point out that it's really wonderful of you to use your great power as a VIP KZbinr to reach tons of people out to hopefully find the girl Mekayla Bali, even when there's little hope. I hope she's alive and well❣️Grazie mille, Dr Grande❣️💙👍

[@ryzorzen]

@@XanderShiller believe it or not, not everyone speaks English as a first language. If the meaning isn’t lost, move on. It’s a comment section not a duolingo lesson

[@barneyronnie]

​@@XanderShiller Get a grip on your behavioral health!

[@aedwynn6474]

This missing person case is particularly frustrating for me. I'm convinced it was a 'bad actor' situation, at least in regards to whom she was communicating with via phone.

[@LindysEpiphany]

This story is so heart breaking! I think why "the guy" couldn't pick her up is because he isn't who she thinks he is. She wouldn't get in the car with some dumpy crazy man because she thinks he's a good looking young man. He lured her step by step right into his lair only to unalive her. I can't imagine the horror of walking through a door and realizing you were so deceived. It makes me feel sick to my stomach! If some guy told me to take my phone apart so NOBODY can trace me I'd say "kiss my a**" and "goodbye." I wish she had noticed the red flag but being sweet, young and naive she trusted what he told her. I hope I'm wrong wrong wrong and she is living happily somewhere.

[@grantp4022]

Your probably right, as this guy seemed paranoid about protecting his identity, and also likely used a fake profile and pics to attract her, and didn't reveal himself until it was too late for her, then likely raped her, and killed her. Not that these guys plan to kill, but they do so, so their not reported to the Cops. If this guy did this all the time, there would be a lot more killings in the area. Probably some man between 45 and 55 yrs old, I would think.

[@byBeauxARTFULIVING]

strongly agree

[@sciencenotstigma9534]

Very likely. 😔💔

[@kina18]

There really needs to be a red flag class taught in every school worldwide. Taught in every grade and age appropriate of course.

[@LindysEpiphany]

@@kina18 That's a really good idea! It would definitely be beneficial and could help save some lives. I wonder how hard it would be to implement that curriculum?

[@kweenz109]

Crazy! Just discovered your channel and was pleasantly surprised to see you cover this!! I work with mekaylas mom and was talking with her when she got word mekayla was not at school when her grandmother went to pick her up. Her mother immediately left work as this was not normal for her. There was word she had two phones. Your assessment is the same as most people around here, she at times had a low self esteem and most believe she was groomed by some creep. I personally think this guy was making her run all over town to make sure no one was watching her. I believe he or they were directing her on what to say and do all day to throw people off. There was a large sum of cash in her home in case of emergency and that was untouched. She left everything behind. Her dad is a deadbeat who came out of the woodworks to cause her mother more pain and issues. Mekayla played piano and was a good big sister. The family has never been the same (obviously) and we don't feel the police are even looking anymore. I can't imagine having no answers and I see mekaylas mom daily. I don't know how she keeps trucking along. Thank you so much for bringing attention to this. Mekayla would be 23 today and still no answers. April 12th will be 7 years. 😢. Her mother is a lovely lady and so is her grandmother and siblings. This was a horrible err in judgement for mekayla that did not end well. She didn't even like going for sleepovers. She would not have left on her own for this long. Also, Regina rhymes with vagina fyi 😂

[@malcolmjelani3588]

She met someone online and now she's dead.

[@stephalynn4888]

This case and a few others from Saskatchewan always make my heart hurt. For being such a small Province I feel like we always have young women missing. Thank you for bringing this case up for discussion!

[@catslove3884]

Province.

[@barneyronnie]

​@@catslove3884 And ...?????

[@catslove3884]

@@barneyronnie I was correcting the spelling, but it looks like she edited it.

[@barneyronnie]

@@catslove3884 I though something like that happened🙄

[@barneyronnie]

@@catslove3884 Oh, I see. Thanks.

[@facemuscles9]

When something like this happens, we’re just waiting for the body to turn up. The spectrum of associates one meets online goes from confused grandma to homicidal maniac. This is not a bell curve. Check the comments section of any news outlet. When she sought real world companionship with an online personality, she opened up a series of events her teenage mind wasn't developed enough to predict.

[@canine5700]

Your missing persons videos are always the most interesting- you provide insight I’ve rarely seen anywhere else! Love seeing your perspective on things:)

[@defundhollywood3259]

Scrolling through the comments and suddenly like 30 Canadians in a row are correcting Dr Grande about his pronunciation. I thought we were supposed to be polite!! 🤦‍♀

[@LaniLanilei]

IMO Pro and Con comments are welcome. I believe Dr Grande keeps it real.

[@kwesley73]

How is that impolite? No one was dogging him, just explaining the weird Canadian pronunciation.

[@lizb4156]

My boyfriend's missing and hasn't touched his bank account. It's been four months, it's terrible not knowing. He was going to Thailand with a stop over in Saudi Arabia and was ill so they hospitalised him. After 9 days he left the hospital and disappeared. The British Consul visited him in hospital and he said he didn't have his phone to contact me and they never even wrote me a letter so I had to find out from the police. The hospital had his passport but I can't get an answer from the Foreign office about if they took his phone, cash and bank card.

[@ninaninapasadena5687]

No decent person would allow for the prolonged suffering, worrying and heartache of their significant other’s loved ones. If she had run off with a man, he was not a good intentioned one. I hope I’m wrong and she is found to be alive and thriving, but we all know how unlikely that is.

[@PoeLemic]

About as likely as my 675 pound body, gonna compete and win a triathlon any time soon.

[@bubbabroad9051]

my hope that at least she is found living on the street as an addict although unlikely and sad too

[@barneyronnie]

​@@PoeLemic How is your ejection fraction? Nice polemic😂

[@CinemascapeReview]

you have quickly become my favorite new channel man. great information dealt out in a calming voice with some dry wit thrown in. keep up the good work !

[@IamtheLunchlady]

Thankyou doing this case, it has really baffled me and haunted me. There is a surveillance footage on the internet of her sitting at a table at the restaurant she was at and a strange man walks by her and looks like he is looking , like looking for someone. When I saw that guy on the footage it sent chills up my spine. He turns to a group of guys having breakfast and asks then something and at that moment in the video, she looks up at him like she recognized his voice or something. Wondering if that man is the clue to this case. Def think they/he killed her. My heart goes out to her mother and family.

[@mariahjahanbakhsh171]

I had a friend who disappeared like this. But she came back thankfully! She met a sugar daddy online and he paid for her plane ticket to Texas from New York. She got there. They had sex and then he held her hostage and branded her for trafficking. He also tried to get rid of her tattoo. She said that was the most painful. Anyways, somehow she got a hold of a phone, called her mom, told her mom to call the police if she doesn’t come back, stole the man’s wallet, bought a plane ticket back to NY with his money. Anyways, when the man came back she told him she contacted her mom and if she’s not back she’ll call the police. Thankfully he let her go but yeah…bad actor

[@johnf817]

Your friend is lying

[@SetiSupreme]

​@@johnf817Ok. You haven't seen the bad side of humanity then. Saying this as a person who's been held captive and tortured for days

[@johnf817]

@SetiSupreme you mean your ex boyfriend slapped you around and didn't want you leaving the house?

[@SetiSupreme]

@@johnf817 Lol no.. I'm a big man, I was accused of stealing drugs so I was tied to a chair for three days and suffered.. Things. Bad things. And they fucking found the drugs on their own on the third day. In fucking Bandidos clubhouse freezer

[@trentbrownstone1481]

Let's see the brand and the faded tattoo

[@flyoverkid55]

Unfortunately, the odds of her having met someone with good intentions is heavily outweighed by her meeting someone with other intentions. Young girl, small town, unhappy with her current situation, sounds like a made for tv movie, but not one you would see on the Hallmark Channel. I have a daughter, and she knows that she can always rely on family for whatever she needs, be it real or imagined. Sadly, it seems Mekayla believed she couldn't.

[@dammar117]

The jokes about hide-and-seek were not necessary. It's funny when you make jokes about perpetrators, not victims. A mother and a grandmother have been grieving for six years without ever knowing what happened to their little girl.

[@nickyblue4866]

It was kind of funny. Grow up.

[@widow237]

I agree completely. Very bad taste, IMO.

[@rhonda8231]

I am friends with the family. It was a special game that they played together, a wonderful memory for them. I would HATE for them to see this. It would hurt them so much. It was very cruel of that so-called "doctor".

[@leticiabv9580]

It will be great to hear your opinion about postpartum psychosis, how justice system treated differently Carol Coronado case from Andrea Yates case, and your perspective about the recent tragedy on Lindsay Clancy's family Thanks for your great content! 😀

[@aislinn3611]

I hope her mom finds out what happened to her some day

[@PoeLemic]

It's probably better to spare her the details and just let her keep wondering where she is. Her Mom doesn't need to know the "Outline".

[@alimannion4095]

@@PoeLemic No, if it was me in her Mum's situation, I would rather know the truth. Imagine never, ever knowing whether your child is living a happy life, or held against their will doing some awful things. It would drive you insane!!. My mind would work overtime, yet, still trying to remain hopeful. God bless Mekayla and her family. Please let there be answers soon.

[@fredajordan5704]

@@PoeLemic If I ever lost a family member this close I only wanted to know whether my loved one is dead or not or also missing...I would not want to know details of her demise, if it was a murder case.

[@_VanHelsing]

@@PoeLemic why are all your comments disgustingly dim witted and perverted, you loner. Talking about young girls being "fun, for a while" and leaving the mother wondering is ridiculous, but you know that don't you. 🙄

[@TheThora17]

@@PoeLemic I’ve rarely heard of anyone who has a murdered and/or missing loved one, and not want to know what happened, why and where they physically are… spare them the answers to that? I don’t think so…

[@cale115]

Sadly she is likely locked in some monsters basement, deceased, or in some shady location. Teens, smart enough to disappear but not to know how dangerous it is for young people, especially young women/girls.

[@bnnrose]

It is infuriating more evidence can't be garnered from her Instagram and Snapchat accounts.

[@bedlambikes]

Yet more evidence on just how deadly these app's are to unsuspecting children. Social media is ruining an entire generation in more ways than we can even fathom.

[@annanicole5494]

she used kik too which was basically a virtual grooming warehouse ESPECIALLY in the years of 2014-2018. some sick monster knows what happened to her and i pray they find them

[@robino12344]

What? Why can’t they do that?

[@dumbgirl8]

​@@annanicole5494 oh god i remember that app. definitely made it easy to communicate with a lot of anonymous weirdos.

[@annanicole5494]

@@dumbgirl8 oh definitely it was so sketchy and dangerous, i used it a lot and thank my lucky stars i never was lured by anyone. you didn’t even need to add any personal information to make an account, no real name, no phone number, nothing. all you needed was just any email which could be literally gibberish/random letters and numbers. i also remember you could audio call (i think video call too maybe??) people on there without linking a phone number which i’m sure this creep was doing

[@sngray11]

I really hope that Mekayla is found and that her family and loved ones can receive the answers that they have been searching for.

[@patricksweeting2142]

I am shocked, how freely she was allowed, to exit and renter school premises without any consequences. This certainly, was a red flag.

[@sbrooke210]

High school kids are pretty free to come and go for the most part

[@manueladarazsdi9675]

It's a school not a prison plus she was in high school. When I was in high school we had several annexes that we traveled back and forth to several times a day.

[@phishlipsable]

agreed! i feel like high school doors were watched like a hawk; i remember "skipping" an end of day pep rally bc i knew all staff was in the gym, but i was still freaked out!!!! and only really gained like 35 minutes extra hahaha. i bet some high schools are different, but there is a lot of violence and a man shot his wife in the pick up line at the elementary school on my campus sooooo idk maybe it's situational

[@adayinforever]

There's no way I would have been able to come and go like that when I was in high school. I got detention for leaving to go to McDonald's for lunch.

[@adayinforever]

@@phishlipsableI think the easy going atmosphere of this school has to be because it's in Canada and they have way less gun violence to worry about.

[@nhmooytis7058]

Social media has been a curse to the young, especially young women 😢

[@SirenaSpades]

Smart parents keep kids off social media.

[@pattih7]

I’ve just learned that a close family member , who is local and just turned 18, is expecting. She has moved in with the father, who is in his mid 30s and is a father, sharing custody with his ex. I’m in shock! This is an intelligent girl, good parents, close family. Praying for things to go for the better.

[@barneyronnie]

He's trash and if it were my girl, he'd be down a mineshaft, guaranteed!!

[@industrialover]

Wherever she told everyone she was going, she probably went the opposite direction

[@rosabbx]

I’m so glad you have decided to offer your analysis on this case. It always baffles me..

[@MrsRitchieBlackmore]

The desperate and sudden need for cash makes me wonder if she didn't get in over her head with some shady online dealings and owed someone (probably a "boyfriend".she wanted to impress) money or else she'd be in trouble. It seems like there was a plan that kept changing, and the need for more and more $$$, as indicated by multiple bank withdrawals and the desperation to pawn her ring. She left some money at home so obviously she didn't know how much she'd need when she left that morning. Very sad and strange.

[@PoeLemic]

Yes, I think the motel room was for her to have an escapade to show him she had sexual worth. And, he was requesting her to prove her "sexual worthiness" to him. Or, that'd be my guess. And, he acted angry that she didn't get the room, so he just said he'd pick her up. Then, she's gone and will never be seen again.

[@amelia_k1082]

Also....leaving money at home likely meant she planned on COMING home. Yes?

[@MrsRitchieBlackmore]

@@amelia_k1082 yes, exactly my thoughts! The plan kept unfolding and she went with it. I would really like to know who she was chatting with online. The money and making sure to hide her location suggests there was more going on than romance.

[@spiritualtruthseeker1947]

I have always thought she was dead. It really looks like it went down as Dr Grande theorized. I do hope her body is recovered so that the family does have at least some sort of closure.

[@fredajordan5704]

Another mysterious case, I agree as usual with Dr. Grande. Wished Mekayla would have told someone what was going on, kids that age think they are invincible, they can not overlook the consequences of their actions sometime.

[@no_sleep_yx3]

prayers for her safe return

[@vangrun579]

If Mekayla is still alive she would be over 18 years old now. If her relatonship with her mum was bad at the time there could be a good reason for her, as a minor, to just disappear from the radar for some time, but now she would be an adult making her own decisions. Still there’s nothing to be heard from her. I agree with Dr. Grande’s “bad actor” conclusion. Why all this running around, sending a message to a friend that she needs help, then asking a lady to book a hotelroom for her, then going to school telling some friends that she is leaving, the large amount of money she would be having in the bank. It’s very probable this girl was instructed by sb to set up a smoke screen, which would finally lead to her own demise.

[@ayeda69]

Canadian here: it is pronounced RE-GY-NA. Thank you for the story.

[@ShapeShiftedIntoMyCat]

Re-guy-na? Re-gina? Not trying to be rude or anything, but you just wholly confused me with the GY, it might just be my public edu showing but is it supposed to be the gee or gi sound lol.

[@waynejohnson1786]

@@ShapeShiftedIntoMyCat It rhymes with certain female anatomy if that helps 😂 “Ra-Ji-Na”

[@JennyNobody]

😂 I feel like he did it just so call his Canadian viewers comment about it.

[@kimwhatmatters4085]

Ray jean nuh ??? Ra Jean nuh ???

[@waynejohnson1786]

@@JennyNobody Genius, boosts engagement

[@katalintorok2538]

I also do not believe she is still alive. Can't the police do more to track her online activities? Is this still an active investigation or has it gone cold? Thank you Dr. Grande for bringing attention to this tragic case.

[@kingpaddy9009]

Actual Police hat tried already everything to potential come in posession of protocols but unfortunately the apps back in the days only saved protocols for this and this time and some dont even save anything and when the police finally hat offical permission to force the protocols they were already gone. Another thing is, that on the CCTV-Footage she appears to phone to someone but these calls were never noticed in the protocols regarding her phone. When she is not pretending to talk to someone, it is very likely she posessed a secret second phone (propably an advise from the person she talked to) that the police can't track without knowing the number. The case is defacto cold since then, because all hints, that were given since are dead ends.

[@Kimber-bz9fe]

How terribly sad she was vulnerable & been prayed upon it would seem. How truly tragic

[@dammar117]

Here in Canada, Regina is pronounced "Re-gine-ah" (as in "mine" or like v*gina). I never understood why. The way Dr Grande pronounced it makes more sense, especially for anyone having studied Latin.

[@defundhollywood3259]

I had to think for a second but it also rhymes with angina

[@neen444]

I was hoping someone would say this so I didn't have to

[@SirenaSpades]

Certainly not in the states.

[@dammar117]

@@defundhollywood3259 Lol

[@joanmilley487]

Very interesting story. Just FYI …. Regina is pronounced with a long i. From a Canadian fan 🇨🇦

[@susanohnhaus611]

My granddaughter got involved with some guy online. I had to go to school to get her because she had been telling her friends she wanted to kill herself. Nobody dealt realistically with what was going on. I am grateful she lived thru her adolecense and into adulthood. The main problem was lack of parental supervision. It is a grave mistake to supervise kids from the point of view that they need their privacy. They don't have to know how closely you monitor them, but you have to do it, even if you can't say anything about a lot of stuff at least you will know (hopefully) when they are in danger.

[@notsocooldude7720]

If you are overbearing with the monitoring it will more than likely cause the kid to be resentful and come up with other ways to hide things from you. Probably better to educate the kid on the dangers of talking to strangers online and tell them about real world examples so they fully understand

[@ceilconstante640]

This Story screams:. Hi! I'm the perfect Target for a Sociopath! Pretty young girl but low self esteem due to acne, no father figure, claims she's looking for chat friends claiming she has none in real life. 1st Question:. From where did she transfer the $25 dollars? Next Q:. Did someone tell her they'd send her bank $5000? Christian ethics are great but there's literally NO EDUCATION on Dark Triad Personalities! Young people have insecurities & emotional & are mostly unaware that evil people can seem very kind, caring, interested and love bomb yet have sinister intentions. Can someone PLEASE create an educational program/film series about Dark Personalities aimed at students?

[@wendybaryl6867]

Your expertise is very much appreciated...

[@billhildebrand5053]

P.S. regina, Latin noun meaning queen is pronounced ‘re-gee-na’ while Regina, geographical name is pronounced ‘Re-gI-na’ as in Vagina. Thankyou for the analysis, Dr. Grande.. ❤❤❤❤❤😂❤❤❤❤

[@billhildebrand5053]

Awesome Dr. Grande, another Canadian analysis. Regina is the capital of Saskatchewan, though it is one of more sparse population. The name of the Queen, our Monarch, ( now deceased ) was the Regina (Latin for King, or Queen, but not despot) that we have on our coins. Sometimes deep pain is disguised in deep efforts to get somewhere, or achieve something, and it is the difficult passage which creates character. But like the Monarch Butterfly ( a Regina in its own right ) we must come to death to achieve life. As you said, her struggles started in her Christian class, so too as humans we struggle to die to our “ego” - Old Life. Thanks !!✅🥺💚🥺💚🥺

[@Dr.Gunsmith]

2024 and still nothing found or seen of her, I hope the family gets the answers they deserve.

[@lindapiper9171]

Your voice is so calming, it takes the edge off some of the more unsettling content.

[@SummerOwns1]

From what i’ve read it seems like whatever companies make the apps she was using have made it extremely difficult for police to obtain info about her conversations, due to not wanting a bad rap/ stock prices dropping for releasing privacy info. While I can understand privacy concerns, it’s horrifying that they can withhold potentially life saving info like that.

[@Earl_E_Burd]

"can understand privacy concerns"

[@EricQuesnel3D]

Why can't they check her LoL ( League of Legends) account? Did she bring the laptop, or desktop with her that she used to play that game on? If not, I am sure there is a trove of information in the history ( Physically saved on the hardware for whatever device she used ) from the logs that someone could dive into. I used to watch a friend play that game a lot, there is an interesting community dynamic with that game in my opinion. Figure out with whom she was all playing with (Teaming up with) consistently and maybe some more answers can be found if not already, I would hope?

[@LaniLanilei]

If she is living a good life I think she would contact her siblings and mother. What was the cause of her unhappiness? Hard to say without knowing the family dynamics.

[@maxalberts2003]

So. She ran away, never to be seen or heard of more. A socially awkward, immature girl from a tiny Canadian town takes off with a stranger. Reminds me of a poem by Edward Gorey: "An incautious young woman named Ven/Was seen with the wrong sort of men./She vanished one day/But the following May/Her legs were retrieved from a fen."

[@rayross997]

Please cover musicians Brian Wilson and Elliot Smith? Thanks for all your work Dr. Grande.

[@charisselinnell-morton4137]

Hello from Saskatoon Sask Canada Dr.Grande . It’s-40 here but anyways the city of “Regina”is actually pronounced like that female body part that starts with “V” or that heart condition ,Angina! This case is not good. I am just an average female who has known not one,two,three but four indigenous women who were killed .Two were murdered by their partners and two by unknown Individuals. It’s theory that we have a serial offender who travels between Saskatoon and Regina.The released a statement in the summer.

[@SirenaSpades]

Kindly stop talking about it.

[@fredrikolsson7568]

Could you talk about homelessness and what personality factors and other causes that could contribute to such a situation? It seems to be a pretty big problem in the US from what I understand.

[@user-fu1nw7kh2h]

Second that, how is becoming a problem that can’t be solved in a resourceful country like US

[@zuzu7308]

@@user-fu1nw7kh2h capitalism ;)

[@RainingRabbitz2]

its not personality they income is too low and the rent is way too high

[@redemptionhappens7725]

It has nothing to do with personality. Rent and home prices are ridiculously high. I moved over 3 thousand miles from home because there was no hope of me ever owning a home in my state and I am a professional person with a degree that typically makes >70k.

[@TheThora17]

@@monkeytennis7477 I concur for the most part

[@puspavelai8353]

Completely perplexing. But why choose a stranger, a woman, to book a hotel room? Were those (also) instructions by this mysterious person? A very interesting, baffling case - your theories are all excellent.

[@nickyblue4866]

You have to be at least 18 and/or have a credit card usually.

[@PoeLemic]

He was wanting her to prove her "sexual worthiness" to him. Or, that'd be my guess. And, he acted angry that she didn't get the room, so he just said he'd pick her up. Then, she's gone.

[@iStalkYourSocials]

She was probably too young to book one

[@rhiannajoseph4443]

The fact that Mekayla’s bank account hasn’t been used for nearly 7 years. Since the day that she disappeared on Tuesday 12th April 2016 that what worries me the most. If someone is alive they would be spending money. You need money to survive. So I don’t think she’s still alive. But I still have some hope. The police have confirmed that Mekayla hasn’t used her bank account/bank card since her disappeared so I’m sure that a concern that the police have as well.

[@Rachelief]

Interesting case. I hope she’s found safely and is missing voluntarily. You have such a soothing voice. Do have/would you consider a podcast?

[@wulfsorenson8859]

She probably hitched a lift at the station when she was told the next bus to Regina wouldn’t arrive for 5 hours. She’d approached someone for help before so its a possibility…Whoever she left with probably murdered her.

[@dammar117]

Or kidnapped her to traffic her.

[@PoeLemic]

Or, is holding her hostage, and is using her for a little fun on a daily basis. Because young girls are fun, for a while.

[@amelia_k1082]

@@PoeLemic That comment could be taken badly by some.....

[@SirenaSpades]

She is being trafficked.

[@grantp4022]

@@SirenaSpades I doubt that. She wasn't that attractive to traffic off for sex imo. Likely she met an older man online ( maybe married) who wanted to have sex with a young girl, and maybe raped her. He obviously didn't want to get caught, so he then killed her to make sure he wouldn't. I think this happens in a lot of these cases. I don't think a lot of these men plan to kill, but after what they've done, they realize there's only 1 way to make sure. If there was a serial killer loose, he would have kept on killing. I also think she's likely dead, but you don't know for sure ?

[@carmendaniel3734]

So sad. She must have met a man online, and left with him. That bad life choice most likely cost her her life. She has been missing for almost seven years. I hope I'm wrong, and she is alive, living her best life.

[@Anonymous-bk7fn]

Thanks for making your videos! Just to note, 'Regina' Saskatchewan is pronounced 'Redge-EYE-na'. 'Regina' is latin for 'Queen'. The city was named after Queen Victoria.

[@analeticiagallardo2314]

How sad for her family not knowing. Although your "bad actor" theory is the most likely scenario there was a case of teen runaway girl here (Australia) that went 'missing' for over ten years but she was living with her boyfriend all along. Her family made appeals to the public in the press and were devastated. When she eventually got in touch If I recall correctly her reasoning for waiting so long was she felt like once she committed to leaving she felt like she couldn't return. Which is totally selfish. But I think the man she was with did have a level of control over her mind. However according to her he didn't physically harm or mistreat her. So maybe there is hope yet for Makayla. I know that it is only a very small percentage of ppl that go missing for years and then return.

[@grindingdeviance1864]

Mekayla seemed like a nice person from this video. Although it's always possible she is no longer w/ us, we can at least HOPE that she found a guy she truly liked and who treated her well.

[@marymonroe7042]

This is so, so sad, heartbreaking. Dr. Grande, you always give the subjects of the cases you analyze great dignity. That always blesses my heart. God bless you.

[@korneliusjansen542]

I also agree that she was probably catfished by someone pretending to have a romantic interest but actually trying to harm her. But I'm basing that mainly on what typically happens in such cases, not on her behaviour that day. In fact, I don't agree at all that her behaviour that day appears to have been directed by someone who wanted to harm her. Why would this person send her around for hours instead of simply telling her to go to a secluded area? Why would he order her to talk to strangers to get money? Why did he tell her to ask an old lady for help? Why would he tell her to go back to her school? All these things don't make much sense in the context of the "foul play" scenario. I don't really have an answer to reconcile these observations, but I think we should be careful not to squeeze everything into a single scenario. It seems that several unlikely factors came together that day to cause her strange behaviour.

[@_VanHelsing]

Dude... The person/he didn't order her to do all of that stuff. They/he didn't tell her to ask the elderly woman for money. Or to go back to school. She decided to do all that. She was faffing about trying to fulfil a bigger order or goal. Like - get money in general. She faffed about because the plans were being concoted by a homicidal cat fish and a teenager trying to leave town/acquire money/ be adult for the first time on her own. That's all. She was likely trying impress the person she met by showing she had some form of capability on her own to get somewhere by herself, too.

[@korneliusjansen542]

@@_VanHelsing So your reply to me pointing out that her actions that day do not look like being directed by an abductor is that her actions that day were not directed by her abductor? Got it.

[@_VanHelsing]

@@korneliusjansen542 nope.

[@friencheetah]

He was moving her around to make sure she was alone. Any undercover police sting would never let their "bait" keep moving from location to location, it would be too dangerous. This person had bad intentions, and sadly it seems like they have done this before.

[@korneliusjansen542]

@friencheetah She was definitely not moved around to make sure she was alone. Anyone with bad intentions could have just waited outside the school to see that she was indeed alone. Besides, moving her the way she did would be the clumsiest way to do it. As for an undercover police investigation, I have no idea what that means. It certainly wasn't one.

[@izaboo]

this case is so interesting to me especially because right before the pandemic i was drinking in this street filled with bars and clubs where i went to almost every weekend. people would approach me and compliment me on my buzzcut and i talked to so many people, and one day this drunk girl complimented my hair and i complimented her red curly hair and her friends/roommates later joined our conversation and the red haired girl disappeared and they called her kayl and kaylee and only she spoke with a british accent. months later i thought of that moment again and i brushed it off because i was drunk that evening and i see a lot of faces. but she has a really particular face, one that stayed in my mind, and maybe my brain is playing games with me but i might have seen her. haarlem, netherlands. im not convinced though but it will always stay on my mind

[@barneyronnie]

Quit using heroin and other drugs!

[@ChoKwo]

She may have been trafficked. This lines up the most. From what I understand trafficking is an issue in sparser regions of the US and Canada. I think this is actually more likely than homicide and explains why the bad actor did not give her money and wanted her to come to a different city. Sightings are not usually reliable but if she has been trafficked it is possible. She likely woukd look different. So I think there is a good chance she is alive though its unlikely she is in Canada.

[@stephw8913]

She sounds like she was so very vulnerable. It’s really unfair that small decisions or an extension of just a little trust can have such dire consequences to young people. Also, small thing and the other Canadians may have already said it but your pronunciation of Regina is adorable and very smooth. We say Rehj-eye-nah. As Deadpool says, it’s the city that rhymes with fun. ^_^

[@pambennett3390]

She got in over her head. Has happenned to young girls forever. Social media makes girls her age sitting ducks. Parents need to get brutally honest with their daughters about how low a male will go for even a single sex act. Men murder for less than nothing. This young woman was looking for trouble and found it.

[@greendragon4058]

Too much time has gone by I don't think she's still alive. There are a lot of red flags in here. Taking her phone apart putting it back together he knows how to hide where cameras were and I'm not sure that any jewelry or anything like that. He wanted to meet her somewhere else wouldn't tell her and maybe that's all she could afford to take out a day from her ATM. So lots of red flags that poor family

[@freshlimejuice]

Her odd behavior reminds me of the Emma Fillipoff case.

[@nancyheilman876]

My thought exactly.

[@nimue4325]

What if the odd behaviour was a result of the onset of some type of psychosis or delusional behaviour that can show up at that vulnerable teenage time? There might be something in the religious background that might encourage a willingness to trust the delusions as that of a higher power, like Andrea Yates.

[@Fefe559]

This is so sad - where were her parents ? No mention?

[@faithfileccia933]

Good video, sad story. The video came up for me just after I had read a Global News aritcle from 4 days ago about how its been 8 years since she went missing.

[@lisabelle7553]

Unfortunately, law enforcement in Canada sucks when it comes to any kind of missing case or homicide case. They barely "investigate". Please look into the case of Dylan Koshman in Edmonton. It's infuriating.

[@_VanHelsing]

Canada's justice system is actually considered one of the best in the world, and has some of the best criminal units. I get you though, so many people still go missing and cops don't give af.

[@_VanHelsing]

Don't get me started on how seedy Edmonton is. My god. It's the Detroit of Canada.

[@lauradueck2535]

I’m trying to find info on Dylan Kushman in Edmonton, I can’t find anything online about this person 🤔

[@JinJinDoe]

How the hell a BUS station in 2016 had no surveilance???