Their daughters vanished — and parents say police stopped looking. Now desperate families are searching on their own

“A bat flits around Denis Aubertin’s head in the darkness, its wings casting shadows on the underground tunnel’s soot-blackened walls. On hands and knees and wheezing with the effort, Aubertin presses forward, desperate for some sign of his missing daughter. After crawling through 45 metres of tunnel beneath what appears to be a former grow-op on a farm in British Columbia’s Interior, he comes to a windowless room and a locked steel door. Rising to his full height, Aubertin throws his body against it. Over and over again he tries to break it down, but despite his tradesman’s strength the door refuses to yield.”

 

Jesse Winter, Jeremy Nuttall – StarMetro Vancouver – October 2018

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