What happened to a Lillooet woman last seen 30 years ago?
LILLOOET – RCMP are turning their focus once again to the strange disappearance of a Lillooet woman reported missing more than 30 years ago.
Roxanne Fleming was 18 in 1982, described by those who knew her as a vibrant First Nations woman. On August 23 that year she broke her finger and went to the Lillooet District Hospital for care. It was the last time those close to her saw or heard from her and for some reason, nobody thought to tell police she was gone. Years passed before she was reported missing and her disappearance made the local news. After that, there were tips to police of sightings. Mounties followed up on several leads without success.
Fleming would be 50 years old now and her appearance will have changed somewhat. Her brown hair may have greyed. She'll have lines on her face now and crow's feet around her brown eyes. Her slender, 18-year-old frame may have changed as well. The only part of her description to be sure of is she's 5'4" tall.
Mounties know memories fade and appearances change, so their focus now is on those who may have spoken to Fleming in her last days, who can help them establish a detailed timeline of her movements. Someone could have a piece to the puzzle — even the smallest detail might be enough — to help investigators put an end to this mystery so they can bring peace to Fleming's family and close the file for good.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Roxanne Elaine Fleming is urged to contact their local police, or remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or leaving a tip online at www.kamloopscrimestoppers.ca.
To contact a reporter for this story, email gbrothen@infonews.ca, or call 250-319-7494. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.
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Roxanne is a free spirit and would come and go like the wind….everyone just expected her to show up one day. The last I saw her was having a good time at the Plaza in Kamloops BC in early summer of 1984.
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This gives me shivers….my family & I lived in Lillooet and I was an R.N. at the hospital but not until 1988….only 2 doctors…a VERY small place…everyone knew everyone….one high school where she may have attended….it bugs me that the article isn’t more specific….SOMEONE would have gone to the R.C.M.P. even if not family?
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So sad that no one reported her missing all those years ago !!I remember her as a really happy friendly young girl ,though only as an acquaintance as knowing people in a small town goes .I hope you see yourself Roxanne on this news clip??
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I would say it was about time the focus was turned back onto this missing woman. Yet another of those unsolved and still growing number of missing woman.
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