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THURSDAY SPECIAL ONLY Police tape sections off the part of a ranch on Mission Flas Road on which human remains were found this week. Dave Eagles/KTW
Mission Flats also yielded body in 2004 X From A1
Wilson, 41, disappeared from downtown Kamloops on April 6, 2012. Paul was last seen on Sept. 9, 2013. While Paul’s disappearance led to information that had investigators making inquiries in the Lower Mainland and Calgary, she remains missing. Police have said they believe Wilson had been murdered since she was last seen on surveillance video walking through the parking lot of the downtown 7-Eleven store after midnight on April 6, 2012. Wilson was fighting addiction issues and was working as a prostitute when she vanished. Bob Hughes of the ASK Wellness Centre said the Mission Flats area is frequented by johns and prostitutes, but noted the property where the remains were found is farther down the road than most people would travel. “Usually it’s just right out
past the pulp mill into the pullout right there,” he said. “That’s a common spot for both male and female sex exchange, but not that far out.” Hughes said the roughness of the road past the pulp mill would likely deter anyone buying or selling sex from going much further. Hughes said while the remains could be one of the two missing women, he’s also aware they could be decades old. But, for the families of Wilson and Paul, he thinks a positive identification of the remains could be better than no answer at all. “No news is the worst news,” Hughes said. “There’s never any closure. You’re never able to properly grieve to say, ‘We know this is what happened.’ Even if it’s horrendous, at least you can say you have some answers.” A large swath of the Mission Flats property remains cordoned
off as the investigation continues. “Until we know exactly what we’re looking at, we don’t want to make it too small of an area and miss something,” Bush said, adding she is not aware of any previous police investigations on the property. The ranch owner is co-operating with the investigation. The location of the human remains is in the same general area where the body of a Kamloops woman was found on March 23, 2004. Shana Lee Labatte, a 30-yearold prostitute fighting addiction issues, was murdered and her body left on Mission Flats. Her murder remains unsolved, as does the slaying of fellow prostitute Sherri Lee Hiltz. The body of the 44-yearold woman was found on April 9, 2005, in a backyard in the 800-block of Surrey Avenue, near Eighth Street, in North Kamloops.
More feature films to be shot in Kamloops region X From A1
IMDb lists a cast including Lethal Weapon star Danny Glover, along with Amy Ryan, Jill Lewis, Lucas Till, Frank Whaley, Hold McCallany and Adrian Formosa. It also lists Chris Wedge as the director, who was involved in Ice Age and Robots. The script was was written by Glenn Berger and Jonathan Aibel, both of whom created the Kung Fu Panda movies. Monster Trucks is tentatively set for a May 29, 2015, release.
Last year, Weller said, the film industry brought in less than a half-million dollars to the Thompson-Nicola region. She attributes the low to the way media consumption has changed over the years, with advertisers shifting toward television and online.
“It’s changing the whole business,” she said. “People don’t go to the theatres as much.” Television series are casting major players and carrying bigger budgets, she said, noting story lines are out of the film commision’s control. “If it’s not in the
script . . . it’s not going to come here.” She has no firm projections for the year, but said another large United States feature film is already prepping to be filmed in the region, along with two smaller productions. She can’t talk about them right now, but she feels positive looking ahead. “It’s definitely going to be better,” she said. The crew is expected to continue filming in Kamloops until the end of the week and return at an unknown date.
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