Taken Season 1, Episode 7: Sandra Johnson

Tina Fontaine

Tina Fontaine was a 15-year-old girl whose body was pulled from the Red River in Winnipeg in August, 2014, sparking international attention, and shining a spotlight on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

20 min

Highway of Tears

Women have been assaulted, gone missing, and been murdered along British Columbia's Highway 16 for decades. Alberta Williams and Ramona Wilson are two women whose only mistake was getting into the wrong vehicle on the Highway of Tears.

20 min

Marie Jeanne Kreiser

Marie Jeanne Kreiser's family was looking forward to seeing her for Thanksgiving, 1987, in Slave Lake, Alberta. She never arrived. Though her family knows Marie Jeanne's case may never be solved, they want the world to know who she truly was.

20 min

Emily Osmond

Emily Osmond was 78 years old when she was last seen by her nephew on her property on the outskirts of Kawacatoose First Nation, Saskatchewan, in September, 2007. Her family believes she was taken, because Emily's beloved dogs were abandoned, and she told no-one she was leaving. This peaceful woman vanished without a trace.

20 min

Claudette Osborne

Claudette Osborne-Tyo was 21-years-old when she was last seen in Winnipeg in 2008. The mother of four children, Claudette was abused as a child, and struggled with drug addiction. But her family loved her very much, and have become some of the most powerful advocates and leaders in the support of MMIWG.

20 min

Tanya Nepinak

Tanya Nepinak's disappearance and presumed murder is one of many in a long series of unsolved violent deaths in her family. Tanya's children have been deeply affected, and many of those who love her have become advocates for the MMIWG. A serial killer's confession failed to solve the case of Tanya's murder, as did a search of a Winnipeg landfill. Violence continues to plague the family to this day.

20 min

Tanya Brooks

On Mother's Day, May 10, 2009, Tanya Brooks had final telephone conversations with her family. It would be the last time they would ever speak with her again. A mother of five, Tanya was 36 years old at the time of her murder. She was seen later that evening walking on Gottingen Street in north Halifax, before being found in a school window well the next day. Each year a memorial march gains momentum, strengthening the collective objective to find her murderer.

20 min

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