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and spent most of their time hitchhiking and sleeping outside after the jobs they had been promised didn't materialize. The girls were often picked up by truckers who would sometimes buy them a meal and radio ahead for another truck to take them on the next leg of their journey. Helen was comfortable
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list of victims in the hopes of raising more awareness for Helen's disappearance, but the RCMP declined the request, citing that the case did not meet the criteria for inclusion. However, this is in contradiction with the criteria for inclusion. There are many cases like Helen's that meet what the
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Helen was reported missing by her sister Sandy on
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Jeannette Frost, now named Michelle Johnson, reached out to Sandy after searching for her birth mother. Michelle and Sandy were reunited later on that year.
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worker's office, "just bawling her eyes out, and we never talked about it again." Sometime between the birth of her child and her disappearance, Helen's relationship with the father of the child, Stefan
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on serious crimes in Canada, and Helen's case is still active. There have been a number of officers assigned to the case since 1970, with the most recent having been assigned in 2017 (file 1970-70118).
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