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MERRITT HERALD TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2016 • MERRITT NEWSPAPERS
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HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? Michael Potestio THE MERRITT HERALD
The search for missing Merritt man Dean ean Morrison has never ended for his mother. Elizabeth Faber hasn’t seen her son in almost three years, but has continued to make efforts forts to search for him. She’s recently posted missing ing person signs in Merritt, and conducted multiple searches earches of his last known whereabouts. This springg she even had a billboard placed in the Kamloops ops area. Morrison has been missing since the morning of Oct. 22, 2013 after being fired from hiss contracted painting job at the Stump Lake Ranch, anch, located south of Kamloops. To date there has been no sign of Morrison, rison, but his mother — who currently resides in n the Lower Mainland — is now receiving help from private investigation firm. Dennis Gagnon, president Vancouver-based based BCSI Investigations has begun preliminaryy work on the case such as phone interviews, and believes the chances of Morrison being alive are 50/50. 0/50. “Based on the interviews we’ve conducted ted so far, he may have walked away, and ran away way from his problems, or he’s deceased somewhere in the Merritt region or somewhere else,” he said. d. Gagnon plans to conduct a new groundd search of the Stump Lake Ranch, pending permission ission from ranch management, in July. Gagnon expects Kamloops Search and Rescue to join the search, as his firm is more accustomed ustomed to urban investigations. “We wanted to bring in some people who have expertise of the outdoors,” he said. After hearing of Faber’s story, Gagnon — who is a former police officer — said he decided too offer BCSI’s services to her free of charge up to $30,000. 00. “I saw a mother who is hurting badly,” Gagnon said. “I’ve been looking all along. I’ve never stopped looking,” Faber said. “I want to know what happened ed to my son.” She said it’s wonderful to be receiving the help of a professional PI. “It takes some stress off me because I just ust feel so alone looking for my son,” she said. d. According to Faber, Morrison called a tow truck at about 9:30 a.m. that fateful October morn-
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ing when his vvehicle wouldn’t start. However, the tow didn’t ar arrive until about 1 p.m., but by then Morrison had h vanished. Morrison Morris was living in a trailer on the Stump Lake Ra Ranch property while on the job and the then 44 44-year-old father of three had recently separated separat from his wife. He was also suffering from depression. d His H vehicle was left at the ranch and his personal effects were left in the trailer. pers Morrison was reported missing by his sister on Oct. 28 and RCMP conducted a sis gground search of the property three days later. Locals organized a search of the Stump Lake Ranch shortly after that in November, but also failed to find any sign of Dean. Morrison’s missing person file was transferred to Kamloops RCMP, and while it is still open, it’s not being actively investigated, Faber said. Gagnon said his firm has spoken to Morrison’s manager at Stump Lake and a co-worker that was there the day of his disappearance. di Gagnon said they plan to conduct faceto-face interviews with these individuals and to-fa Morrison’s ex-wife if she wants to speak with Morr them. He pplans to try and retrace Morrison’s steps the last dday he was seen. “The window of disappearance is quite short. matter of two or three hours,” Gagnon It’s a mat said. Anyone with information regarding Morrison’s Anyon disappearance or those who wish to volunteer disappear with the search can contact BCSI Investigations online aat www.picanada.ca. “We’re hoping that we’ll get lots of people “W out bbecause the ranch is so vast, it’s never been covered as well as I would like,” Faber said. sai “I don’t know what happened to him, it’s a complete mystery, so I’ll never stop searching until I find him, of course, in some way or another, because he’s my son,” Photo contributed Faber said.
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