The search for a teen missing from Owen Sound continues.
Please Bring Me Home Co-Founder Nick Oldrieve, whose organization looks for missing people is asking people to take a few minutes to check their properties for 15 year old Jillianne missing since April 28th around 8 p.m.
“She was last seen on the upper east side of Owen Sound,” says Oldrieve “There are some good properties there, who knows if anyone’s been back to check their sheds or anything. The best course of action here is don’t wait for someone to come and ask to search your property. Go and look. Go from fence post to fence post on your property and just make sure that there’s nothing out of place, nothing’s been broken into on your property. Just go an analyze your own property right now. Especially if you’re on the east end of Owen Sound.”
He says people don’t need to be searching the water or cliffs, as firefighters and other emergency services are tackling those more difficult areas. “Don’t worry, it’s being extensively searched. It has been extensively searched already and it will continue to be looked at in case anything was missed, and the same thing with the water. Just don’t put yourself in harm’s way in these very harmful searches. They can be dangerous searches,” says Oldrieve.
Oldrieve says he isn’t looking to get involved in the police investigation, noting, “We weren’t going to get involved because we’re trying to let the professionals handle it. He adds, “We know that we have a really good following of passionate people and we have a good platform in the area, so we’ve gone out on a couple of searches for Jillianne.”
“I know that Jillianne’s parents are just experiencing the worst trauma that you can feel. You don’t know where your daughter is,” says Oldrieve.
Oldrieve notes her father is concerned she may have been coaxed away, adding, “But we also don’t know if she was met with misadventure, if she ran out of Owen Sound, if she’s hiding out in Owen Sound, we really don’t know. We know that from the place that she left, she did leave that place with the intent to leave.”
He adds, “But what happened to her since then, I have no idea.”
“We’re just keeping every option open,” says Oldrieve.
He posted Tuesday on Facebook noting there are so many things that could have happened, saying, “Jillianne if you’re reading this, or if you know where she is, or if there is some foul play involved it’s only a matter of time.”
Oldrieve says he’s, “Really just trying to implore Jillianne or anyone who knows where she is to come forward. Hopefully put her parents’ minds at ease. Even if we just know that she’s okay at this point. We just need someone to reach out and them know that. Let us know that, let the police know that.”
Oldrieve says he’d prefer people go directly to Owen Sound Police. “I’ve been able to speak to the detectives and I do believe that they are actively working on this, so it makes no sense for us to be a go-between for tips. He says tips should be given to the police or Crime Stoppers.
“But at the end of the day, if you’re not going to do either of those things and you only trust coming to us, then just shoot it to us, but I’m going to send it right off to the Owen Sound police. We’ll keep you anonymous if you want, much like Crime Stoppers would do but we just need information, wherever it goes. Just get the information to flow somewhere.”
