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Post by Admin on May 7, 2013 19:54:50 GMT
Mon, March 30, 2009 Family's hope still alive UPDATED: 2009-03-30 02:03:08 MST Advocacy work continues for daughter who disappeared By ALYSSA NOEL, SUN MEDIA Email Print Write Size: A A A Share: Facebook Digg Del.icio.us Google Stumble Upon Furl Newsvine Reddit Technorati Blinklist Feed Me Yahoo Socializer Ma.gnolia Raw Sugar Simpy Squidoo Spurl Blink Bits Rojo Blogmarks Shadows Netvouz Scuttle Co.mments Bloglines Tailrank Sitejot + Help EDMONTON -- In the three years since her daughter went missing in Las Vegas's seedy underbelly, Glendene Grant's emotions have run the gamut from depression to hope. After countless phone calls, e-mails and hours of advocacy work to keep her daughter's story alive, Grant has arrived at the conclusion that Jessie Foster did not going missing in vain. "Jessie has really made people aware of human-trafficking," Grant said yesterday on the third anniversary of Foster's disappearance. Grant has made sure her daughter's name shows up on every missing person website. She's jumped on every opportunity to speak to the media and she's well known to people who work to find missing people. "Three years in (there's been) lots of media exposure, police on both sides of the border, human-trafficking services are aware of her and it's still going strong," she said. But Grant still breaks down when she recalls the months leading up to Foster's disappearance. The stomach-churning story began when her daughter -- who lived in Calgary at the time, but also spent time living in Edmonton -- was just 20 years old and her then-boyfriend offered her a free trip to Las Vegas in 2005. Grant was reluctant to let her go, but decided that she deserved a break from the multiple jobs she was working. Jessie came home briefly before going back again. But almost every day Foster would be in contact with her mom or one of her three sisters. She also began dating another man and then working as an escort. He was abusive and alleged to be a pimp, Grant said. Foster came home for Christmas in 2005, but she was different. On Christmas morning she insisted her family drive her to the airport. She needed to get back to Las Vegas, she said. That was the last time her family saw her. They remained in contact until March 2006. At the beginning of April, Grant reported her missing. She was devastated and sunk into depression, taking medication and feeling overwhelming guilt any time she felt an ounce of happiness. "I felt, who the hell deserves to be laughing when their kids are missing," she said. It wasn't until the birth of her granddaughter, Madison, that she came out from the depression and began raising awareness about her daughter. "The moment that baby came out, I was catapulted into the present," she said. "Her name is Madison and I call her Medicine. It's my own little nickname." The grief still hits her -- particularly on the anniversary -- but she takes solace knowing that Foster has become a sort of poster child for human-trafficking. She still holds out hope that her daughter is alive. "It's hard to be a normal person now. That's all I talk about. That's all I do. My life is nothing but missing and murdered people."
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2013 19:57:02 GMT
THERE'S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT JESSICA ... SHE'S MISSING Posted By: Patriotlad <Send E-Mail> Date: Wednesday, 30-Jan-2008 01:25:34 SOMETIME AFTER THE DATE MARCH 28th OF 2006 A YOUNG CANADIAN GIRL WENT MISSING IN LAS VEGAS "There's something about Jessie" Her full name is -- Jessica Edith Louise Foster and in May of this year she will turn twenty-four: Then again, perhaps not: no member of her family has heard from her, by telephone or other means, nor has she been seen since March of 2006. In a long interview with Rumor Mill News, Jessica's mother provided a fairly thorough account of what this young woman was like, growing up in a modest home in western Canada ... with three sisters. Her story was the story of a fine young teen-ager, a gal who got herself a job at fifteen, who worked hard, who was a blessing to have around the house, and who is missed by her sisters. Perhaps it is fair to say that Jessica was not exactly the intellectual type, but she was the type who could make close friends and keep them, who was bubbly and kind. No one has heard from her in almost two full years: not her mother and step-father, not her father and step-mother, not her friends; she simply seems to have vanished from around North Las Vegas, Nevada. Worse yet, the authorities there seem not to be overly concerned about her disappearance, as her anxious mother tells it. Then again, in the Las Vegas and North Las Vegas area, some two hundred people go missing almost every week of the year. These cities could easily keep an entire squad of detectives busy doing nothing more than investigating these missing person reports and chasing down leads. Maybe they should. But they can't, they don't. Jessica and Colleen B in Las Vegas. Colleen is the only person who ever visited her in Las Vegas and the only person to meet Peter Todd and his twin brother James. The brothers and Jessica lived together at 1009 Cornerstone Place, in North Las Vegas. Curiously ... James moved out of the house two weeks after Jessica Foster disappeared. He says he knows nothing about what Peter did for a living, but some folks believe that he knows. James is a school teacher in North Las Vegas, and one might think that lots of people around there are bothered by his close connection to what is possibly his brother's suspicious, if not overtly criminal, behaviour. Rumor Mill News has taken a special interest in this case, which is unfortunately very similar to other cases of 'girls gone missing.' We wish most fervently that we had the cash and the brainpower to tackle all of the cases that are like this one, and we've heard a lot about many of them from our valued readers. We wish we had our own detective agency and a private air force to shuttle our investigators around, to help find and return the many, many young women who've gone missing in these past few years, since Chandra Levy, and since Natalee Holloway .... But we don't .... Still, we have you, our valued readers, and with the help of some decent luck -- perhaps we will be able to assist in this case, which is entirely as puzzling as hundreds of other disappearances we've heard about in the past few years. Jessie Foster and her would-be fiance, Peter Todd, together not long before she disappeared ( March, 2006 ) The link below connects to the jessiefoster.ca missing person site created by her loving parents and step-parents: Still Missing After Almost Two Years ~ Jessica Foster
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2013 19:57:28 GMT
THERE'S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT JESSICA ... SHE'S MISSING Posted By: Patriotlad <Send E-Mail> Date: Wednesday, 30-Jan-2008 01:25:34 SOMETIME AFTER THE DATE MARCH 28th OF 2006 A YOUNG CANADIAN GIRL WENT MISSING IN LAS VEGAS "There's something about Jessie" Her full name is -- Jessica Edith Louise Foster and in May of this year she will turn twenty-four: Then again, perhaps not: no member of her family has heard from her, by telephone or other means, nor has she been seen since March of 2006. In a long interview with Rumor Mill News, Jessica's mother provided a fairly thorough account of what this young woman was like, growing up in a modest home in western Canada ... with three sisters. Her story was the story of a fine young teen-ager, a gal who got herself a job at fifteen, who worked hard, who was a blessing to have around the house, and who is missed by her sisters. Perhaps it is fair to say that Jessica was not exactly the intellectual type, but she was the type who could make close friends and keep them, who was bubbly and kind. No one has heard from her in almost two full years: not her mother and step-father, not her father and step-mother, not her friends; she simply seems to have vanished from around North Las Vegas, Nevada. Worse yet, the authorities there seem not to be overly concerned about her disappearance, as her anxious mother tells it. Then again, in the Las Vegas and North Las Vegas area, some two hundred people go missing almost every week of the year. These cities could easily keep an entire squad of detectives busy doing nothing more than investigating these missing person reports and chasing down leads. Maybe they should. But they can't, they don't. Jessica and Colleen B in Las Vegas. Colleen is the only person who ever visited her in Las Vegas and the only person to meet Peter Todd and his twin brother James. The brothers and Jessica lived together at 1009 Cornerstone Place, in North Las Vegas. Curiously ... James moved out of the house two weeks after Jessica Foster disappeared. He says he knows nothing about what Peter did for a living, but some folks believe that he knows. James is a school teacher in North Las Vegas, and one might think that lots of people around there are bothered by his close connection to what is possibly his brother's suspicious, if not overtly criminal, behaviour. Rumor Mill News has taken a special interest in this case, which is unfortunately very similar to other cases of 'girls gone missing.' We wish most fervently that we had the cash and the brainpower to tackle all of the cases that are like this one, and we've heard a lot about many of them from our valued readers. We wish we had our own detective agency and a private air force to shuttle our investigators around, to help find and return the many, many young women who've gone missing in these past few years, since Chandra Levy, and since Natalee Holloway .... But we don't .... Still, we have you, our valued readers, and with the help of some decent luck -- perhaps we will be able to assist in this case, which is entirely as puzzling as hundreds of other disappearances we've heard about in the past few years. Jessie Foster and her would-be fiance, Peter Todd, together not long before she disappeared ( March, 2006 ) The link below connects to the jessiefoster.ca missing person site created by her loving parents and step-parents: Still Missing After Almost Two Years ~ Jessica Foster
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2013 19:58:46 GMT
Help find Jessie Foster Share: by amyjudd | October 25, 2008 at 10:35 pm 136 views | 16 Recommendations | 5 comments Videos Jessica Foster (Missing Person) REWARD_ see larger video uploaded by amyjudd One of the members of NowPublic, JessiesMomGlendene is still searching for her missing daughter Jessie Foster. She just received word yesterday that Frank Mahoney from the National Centre for Missing Loved Ones in Las Vegas is going back out into the Nevada desert to search for the body of Jessie Foster. The missing posters are up in Las Vegas and the search is back on, but volunteers are needed and so if you are in the Las Vegas area and can help out, please get in touch and do so. Jessie Foster has been missing since April 9, 2006, so it has been a long and trying time for her family and everyone involved in the case. She disappeared only a few months after leaving Kamloops BC to be with her boyfriend in Las Vegas. It is unknown what happened to her, but her family has never given up hope she will show up alive. This is an ongoing news story, so I am putting the word out there again for help and assistance in this difficult time. Some added information: ATV's would be good if you have them. If not you can walk with the rest of us. We have a request from the mother of a missing woman, Jessie Foster (North Las Vegas Police case 2006) to check an area in the desert for her remains. We will meet next Sat Nov 1, 2008 at 9am at the corner of Lamb and Centennial Pwky . Dress for walking and the weather. Direction: 215 to Lamb south on Lamb one block 15 to west on 215 to Lamb l/south to Centennial Pkwy RVSP to Frank Mahoney at 702-564-1466
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2013 19:59:39 GMT
Taken From www.oracle20-20.com/magazine/2008/0908/first_person.phpGrant PLEASE HELP ME. My Canadian daughter, Jessie Foster, born in Calgary, AB and raised mostly in Kamloops, BC went missing from her home at 1009 Cornerstone Place, North Las Vegas, NV USA (who goes missing from their home???) on March 29, 2006. Jessie’s case is in the hands of the Serious Crimes Division with the RCMP and she is an endangered missing person with the North Las Vegas police. Jessie’s case info is also in the hands of ATLAS (unofficially - as without someone to come forward and testify in court...Jessie is not ‘officially’ a human trafficking victim). ATLAS is the Anti-Trafficking League Against Slavery task force in Las Vegas. They get every single bit of info that goes to the police. There is also a human trafficking office in British Columbia who has been informed of Jessie’s case and the Edmonton Police Service is very well aware of who Jessica Foster is and also who Donald Vaz is (the person who took my daughter to the USA and the person we believe who is involved in what happened to Jessie after that). Jessie’s story has been told on the Geraldo Rivera at Large show on April 24, 2006; on the Maury Povich show on October 11, 2007; on the Montel Williams show on May 24, 2007 and updated on July 8, 2008. These shows have also been shown repeatedly over time. Her story has been told in dozens of newspaper articles and on TV & radio news and it is all over the Internet - just try Googling her name - you will get pages and pages of 10 links each with nothing but stories about my missing daughter. Go to www.google.ca or www.google.com and using quotation marks; type in: “missing Jessie Foster”. Jessie’s story was going to be told on the Dr. Phil show, but I do not know what has happened with that. I still hope to hear back from them. And the Steve Wilkos show was interested in doing a show about Jessie’s story, but decided to hold off on it...I also still hope to hear back from them. Jessie’s story came out last year in a Canadian book by author Lisa Wojna called: MISSING! The Disappeared, Lost or Abducted in Canada. Her story will also be told in another book: info TBA. And there is a cookbook coming out that will have stories of the missing with the recipes and Jessie’s story will also be in that book. We are waiting to hear when the National Enquirer will be printing the story they are doing about Jessie. I already did the interview with the reporter and we are waiting to hear when the paper will be printing it. They are not just doing a story...the reporter told me she talked to her editor about Jessie and they plan to do an appeal for Jessie. We are very grateful to this. For more info on our case, we have a lot of info available. Our website is: www.jessiefoster.ca and we have a NowPublic site: members.nowpublic.com, a Facebook account for me facebook.com/, a MySpace account: myspace.com/jessiesmomglendene and I have a blog: jessiefoster.blogspot.com I do NOT stop my search for Jessie even for a day. If I am not talking to people about her case, I am sending messages to people to try to get more help. Whether it is from the police, the public, the media or an investigator. We pretty well talk to anyone who wants to listen. We fundraise to keep the investigation going and to have a reward. We have a $50,000 reward now; thanks to Jessie’s father Dwight adding $40,000 to the $10,000 we raised. We will also continue to fundraise and we will continue to raise the reward if we need to. WE NEED TO FIND JESSIE. She has me, her step-dad Jim, 3 sisters, 1 niece (just born on December 26, 2007) and I another of her sisters is due to have a baby December 28, 2008. JESSIE NEEDS TO BE FOUND...her sisters and their children need her, I NEED HER - WE NEED HER. Jessie also has her dad & step-mom Tracy and 2 step-sisters. They both are married and one has 3 children & one has 1 child. Jessie has only met 1 of her nephews & nieces. Jessie also has her grandpa (my dad), her grandma (her dad’s mom), her step-grandpa (Jim’s dad) and her step-grandma (Tracy’s mom), numerous aunts, uncles and cousins...way to many to even try to name, for fear of missing anyone. Jessie is a very popular person...during elementary and high school Jessie was always involved in sports, dance, work, family & friends. She has hundreds of people who know and love her who are waiting for her return and THOUSANDS of others who have come to love and pray for Jessie every day. WE NEED TO FIND JESSIE. Thank you for your time, Glendene Grant.
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2013 20:00:49 GMT
Comments by user: CJaye Posted on: Problem once thought dire hasn’t been confirmed The bickering is totally out of line here. You guys don't get the big picture. It's really not about illegals. IT'S ABOUT HUMAN SEX TRAFFICKING!The sell of a human being. You guys sound like children fighting over a toy. (Suggest removal) 2/11/09 at 10:09 a.m. Posted on: Problem once thought dire hasn’t been confirmed Being one who networks against human sex trafficking and has been involved in the search for Jessica Foster from the beginning practically.I have to say with the undercover work I've done The stories these girls have to tell,there is a serious problem. You just aren't looking in the right places & not looking at the right people. "despite the time and money invested, Southern Nevada is no closer to understanding the problem or more important, even proving that there is a problem". Most of the women that are trafficked in & out of Las Vegas are prostitutes. The police are all overworked and can't stop to look for every prostitute. That's their mind set. The Government writes papers,takes survey's,do stats,on all of the prostitution, forced prostitution, and human sex trafficking but they will never have true figures.If this is the # 2 illegal crime in the world now soon it will be #1 over drugs. Drugs can't be re-sold. Sex can over and over some children up to 30 a day. It can be in your backyard your next door neighbor. Jessie Foster is just one of many thousands of adults and children sold every year. People like Peter Todd, Donald Vaz, Trish Van Arsdale,Yvonne Hubrectsen need to be stopped from this awful crime. These are some of the people you need to looking at. People like these pimps who sell girls when they are done with them. When the girl becomes too much trouble. Like Jessica she had been arrest for prostitution become too much trouble for Peter Todd. He told me he got stuck with her. "if Las Vegas is a target for traffickers, as federal and local officials have claimed,then,we reach one of two conclusions:numbers are wrong or we've reached a crisis and we're not doing anything to effectively address it. The truth is probably somewhere in between." Well let me tell you the numbers are wrong and your not doing enough to effectively address it. Effectively addressing it is being on the streets and watching this girls. Not as watch dogs but just watching Truck stops, Hotels, Brothels. This is how your going to see forced sex trafficking, sex trafficking rings. Do you know there are girls that come back and forth from Mexico sex trafficked. But some are allowed to travel back and forth to recruit. If you just talked to some of the mothers of these trafficked daughters you would learn so much. Glendene Grant would blow you mind with the information she has learned in the time Jessica has been missing. ATLAS is working Jessie case as well, another great source if in need of. NCMLO another great source,Frank Mahoney. Alot of sources not enough people to get out and go look!!! (Suggest removal) 12/9/08 at 5:46 p.m.
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2013 20:02:05 GMT
Taken from Facebook www.facebook.jp/group.php?gid=38048216800This group is setup for supporters who back us in our quest to get Facebook to stop disabling our Jessie Foster accounts. We are on our 12th one to date. Someone took this group and tried to change it but we got it back - then he put me as "SELF-SACRIFICING OFFICER" - not sure what he meant but I took that off and I made myself administrator again. This time I have to made someone else an Administrator so if I get disabled, there is still someone else in the group's administration. Glendene. ˜A—æî•ñ ƒz[ƒ€ƒy[ƒW: www.jessiefoster.ca êŠ: Hope Street Kamloops, BC
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2013 20:03:06 GMT
Taken From cjaye57.wordpress.com/Jessie Foster has been missing now for a little over three years March, 2006. Jessie took a trip to Las Vegas to spend her birthday and never can back. Glendene Grant wishes she had never agreed to let Jessie go. I’m going to try and start this from the beginning if I can get it all right. Donald Vaz befriended Jessie while she was in high school. After school Donald taken Jessie on a trip to NY. and Florida. While in NY Donald Vaz tried to pimp out Jessie. He had lost money on a gambling debt. A little background on the Vaz family. All of the Vaz family have a background in Human Sex Trafficking, father, mother, and sisters you name it they are all in the business. Jessie called home told her mother she wanted to go to Las Vegas for her 22th birthday with a girlfriend named Angel aka Yvonne Hubrechtsen. Below is a timeline of Jessie’s events up to the date of her missing. April 2005—left job in Calgary to travel with Donald Vaz to Florida, New York, New Jersey and Nevada May 2005—visited Calgary and returned to Las Vegas with Yvonne Hubrechtsen June 2005—began dating Peter Todd and was arrested for prostitution in Las Vegas September 2005—arrested for prostitution in Las Vegas December 2005—visits parents in Calgary and Kamloops March 24, 2006—spoke to mom on phone March 27, 2006—left birthday message for step-mom March 28, 2006—spoke to sister on phone April 3, 2006—last acknowledged sighting by Peter Todd April 9, 2006—reported missing April 29, 2006—missed step-sister’s wedding Put on Jessie’s milk carton August 28,2008 This is a email from a girl I met on myspace. She told me she wanted to help me find Jessie Foster. She also stated she knew Yvonne Hubrectsen and could tell me where she was. Yvonne Hubrectsen aka Angel Yes. We used to be best friends. We lived together. She started changing in 03. My ex bf David Guerrero’s half brother Kenneth Ballew intorduced Yvonne to Peter Todd aka Pete over the phone it was then she decided to go and live in Las Vegas. She has been trying to recruit several other girls to live over there in Vegas with her. She also asked me numerous times if I would go with her and I told her no! Last time I spoke with her was in 05. I am trying to get in contact with her Mom Sheryll Hubrectsen. If she did sell Jess to Mexico. It is because she would be worth alot of money because she is caucasian and from Canada. And Yvonne and Pete would make more money off of her rather than her selling herself in Las vegas and making a few thosand bucks a day they would get a huge amount of money all at once. But she may be back in Las Vegas or might have never left. I am also trying to contact Christina Pena 28 who knows Yvonne. I have a picture of me and Yvonne on my myspace. www.myspace.com/monique_abraham I am more than willing to help. If I can get her number and talk to her I more than sure she will give some info on what happened or of Jess’s where abouts. I am someone she trusts. I have e-mailed the Las Vegas detectives. But have received no anser back. I have also wen’t to Jess’s myspace and sent message to one of her family remembers and no respond. If you would like to discuss this over the phone with me feel free to call me. (209) 676-2399 or e-mail mz.moniquemonique@yahoo.com Please give me a call so I know that you are who you say you are. Thanks. Sincerly, Monique Hernandez This is just one of many emails she wrote Glendene and myself. To date neither one of us have heard from Monique Hernandez. It’s sad that people prey on other in this way to get hopes up that they say they want to help and give you a line a crap! Poor Glendene is like a yo yo. Yes she is like a yo yo up and down everyday. One day she get news that is really encourouging and the next day she’ll hear something that put a knott in your throat so big you can’t sallow. Bless you my friend, Jessie is alive and we will find her I feel it and always have. Your still a brickhouse Glendene and nothing can knock you down, you keep up your fight. Jessie’s coming home! Published in: Uncategorizedon June 18, 2009 at 8:26 am Leave a Comment
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2013 20:04:05 GMT
Taken From cjaye57.wordpress.com/You Can Kick Her but You Can’t Keep Her Down Glendene Grant Glendene Grant, she’s a mother, wife, grandmother, and friend just to name a few. In the little over two years that I’ve known Glendene I think she’s probably the strongest Lady I know. She has good days and bad days but how could she not when her daughter has been missing for two and a half years. Jessica Edith Louise Foster moved from Canada to Las Vegas, Nevada to live with friends and start her new life. Jessie got more than she bargained for. She moved in with Peter Todd he and Jessie became boyfriend and girlfriend. For all visual purposes Jessie seemed happy and in love with Peter Todd. Little did her family know Peter Todd is a pimp, he had put Jessie out to work for him. We still aren’t sure if she was forced into prostitution with possible threats to her family or not. Can you imagine having to send your DNA to possibly ID a DOA that was found in Texas? I lost my father to murder twenty-two years ago. He was missing for seventeen days before he was found. I thought I would go crazy in those days. To have to submit DNA to identify my loved one would have put me over the edge. Thank God it wasn’t Jessie! Glendene has been on a rollercoaster ride for this time. This is just one of many things to test Glendene’s strength. There are days Glendene gets so overwhelmed by everything that she is paralyzed. It’s an overwhelming heaviness that comes over you and all you can do is ball yourself up in the bed and cry. Most people call it depression I dislike the word myself since I’ve lived with it for twenty two years. Days and days go by and you’ve heard nothing which makes things worse always thinking the worst. I remember when I first met Glendene. She saw that some of the others site of missing loved ones had hundreds of hits some thousands. Donations were large and the website it’s self set up really nice. Glendene didn’t think Jessie’s site would ever have so much publicity or hits. I told her it all takes time and Jessie’s site would be the same soon. Still Glendene being a wonderful mother that she is wanted more publicity on her daughter’s case. Let me just say the Las Vegas Police weren’t doing anything. Glendene didn’t roll over and play dead she was like the Ever Ready Bunny she went to every talk show, magazine and newspaper that she could get through to tell Jessie’s story. Then she set up websites on every bog site and networking site you can think of. She’s a powerhouse I’m telling you right now. Glendene has had to confront the US and Canadian officials due to the amount of times she had come into the United States to look for her daughter. These officials thought Glendene was sex trafficking. They wouldn’t let her into the states. OMG can you believe that! I was so upset when Glendene told me that. Nobody cared that her daughter was missing, or possibly sold to human sex trafficking. My question is WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Sorry to be so bold but I just don’t understand. We need Glendene to get back to the United States to help aid in the search for her daughter. Annie, Hookers for Jesus are out walking the strip keeping an eye out. It’s not the same as Glendene being there asking the questions may be ride around check out things talk to the police. Glendene has been on a rollercoaster ride for this time. Several videos have been made about Jessie’s disappearance. I’ve made a few of them for Glendene as a pay it forward. Comments unfortunately have been left on some that are very ugly. I know they hurt her and I‘ve gotten really protective over her and her family. It makes you wonder what kind of person would say things like that about a person who is missing sold into human sex trafficking. It too makes me think were they “hatched from a egg”. They couldn’t have been nurtured by a mother or anyone for that matter. I know most of you have seen Glendene’s NowPublic site and her stories about her daughter Jessica. I want everybody to know what a great person she is and how she’s been hanging on. I want to say one more thing about Glendene. When I first met this sweet Lady when she needed me just as someone did me in my time of need twenty two years ago. It’s hell but now Glendene will be able to give advice and help others out like she is. It just takes that one person to extend their hand and say I want to help you. It’s like I said, “You Can Kick Her but You Can’t keep Her Down”
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2013 20:04:55 GMT
Search renewed for B.C. woman missing in Vegas Updated: Sat Nov. 01 2008 16:19:45 ctvbc.ca Glendene Grant has never given up hope that her daughter Jessie is still alive. "I still don't believe Jessie's dead," says Grant. "We've got well over 120, 125 articles about Jessie's case." The Kamloops, B.C. mother hasn't seen her daughter since Christmas 2005. Jessie had come home for a visit from las Vegas, where she was living with 39-year-old Peter Todd. Her final phone call to family came in march 2006. "I think that Jessie was taken away against her will," she says. Grant believes her daughter is a victim of human trafficking -- lured into the sex trade. The 21-year-old was arrested for prostitution while in Vegas. "I think that they knew she was getting ready to come back to Canada, which she was," says Grant. Meanwhile, search crews have renewed their search of the Nevada desert north of where Foster was living. The decision to re-start efforts was made after a tip last week pinpointing a specific location. "I'm pretty confident that they're not going to find her anywhere in the Nevada desert," says Grant. "If we can't find out where she is then we can eliminate the places where she isn't." Grant still lives across the street from the elementary school her daughter attended. Jessie's car sits parked in the yard -- some of her possessions are still on the backseat. "There have been times when I've come out and sat in it, but it's hard," says Grant. "Cause when you set down in there and put your hands on the steering wheel you know that's exactly where her hands once were." The mother is holding on to hope, but she is also prepared to let go. "I believe Jessie's alive so I don't believe they're going to find her but if they do then that means that we'll at least have had part of our answers and the next step would be to get the justice Jessie deserves." With a report from CTV British Columbia's Maria Weisgarber
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2013 20:06:05 GMT
Jessie Foster Last Seen: April, 2006 in Las Vegas. If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Detective Dave Molnar North Las Vegas Police Department Phone: (702) 633-1779 or 1773 OR Mike Kirkman/Las Vegas Detectives Phone: (702) 897-6820 lvdetectives@cox.net
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2013 20:07:15 GMT
I get a strong feeling that she needs to be found By: Cathryn Atkinson, Globe and Mail April 04, 2007 Whenever Glendene Grant needs to hear her daughter’s voice, she goes to her laptop and calls up an audio file she made a year ago. In it is a recording taken from Jessie Foster’s cellphone. Only one word in the message is spoken by the young woman from Kamloops, who disappeared in Las Vegas on March 28, 2006, but it is all Ms. Grant has to connect her with her daughter’s physical presence. First, a messaging-service voice tells her, “You have reached the voicemail of….” And she hears her girl say her name: “Jessica.” Then the messaging-service voice returns, telling her to “speak after the beep.” For weeks after Ms. Foster went missing, her mother and the rest of the family followed those instructions, leaving increasingly frantic messages that were never returned. Eventually, Ms. Grant, a 49-year-old Internet technician, decided to download her daughter’s voicemail before it, too, disappeared. “Now I only have to go over to the computer,” she said. “That’s when I feel obsessive, when I hear her voice two, three, four times in a row.” If Ms. Foster is still alive, she will turn 23 next month. The second oldest of four sisters, Ms. Foster, a straight-A student in high school, worked at Boston Pizza in Kamloops and later lived with her father in Calgary before starting what was supposed to be a short tour of the United States. Her mother said she had planned to go to college on her return. Instead, she moved to Las Vegas in May, 2005, telling her family she had met a rich man, 39-year-old Peter Todd, and fallen in love. “She told us she liked it there and wanted to stay, and that he was living off a trust fund. We had no reason not to believe her,” said Ms. Grant, although she added that she was concerned her daughter would be residing in the U.S. illegally. For 10 months, Ms. Foster would e-mail, call or text message her mother or sisters almost daily, telling them stories of the glamour of the casinos and of seeing stars like Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake sitting at the next table in restaurants. Then, nothing. After her daughter vanished, Ms. Grant and her former husband Dwight Foster, Ms. Foster’s father, reported her missing to the North Las Vegas Police Department and the RCMP. And they hired a private detective who, after a short search, gave them the devastating news that their daughter had been known as “Taylor,” and had been prostituting herself through a Las Vegas escort service. Ms. Foster, they learned, had been arrested twice and her boyfriend was not from a rich family, but had gained his apparent wealth from unknown means. He had an ex-wife who had been arrested for prostitution herself, and Mr. Todd had been arrested for spousal abuse, the private detective said. This was confirmed by North Las Vegas police. After Ms. Foster’s disappearance, Mr. Todd was twice interviewed by police, and said she had moved out several days after her last call home, North Las Vegas police said. No evidence has been discovered to show that she had either left town or met a violent end, they said. Mr. Todd is not considered a suspect in the case, and now refuses to speak to the media. Officer Tim Bedwell of the North Las Vegas police described the case as “the most investigated non-crime our department has ever taken on.” He explained that their jurisdiction does not cover “the Strip,” where the main casinos are located and where Ms. Foster worked, but the suburban outskirts of the city where she resided with Mr. Todd. “There’s been nothing new in this case for a very long time. It is fundamentally a cold case. This is a missing adult and we have no evidence of any criminal wrongdoing,” he said. “It’s very frustrating for her family. From a police department perspective, it is frustrating that we can’t offer them any help or closure.” As the investigation continued, Ms. Grant said it became apparent to her that missing prostitutes do no warrant the same attention as other missing people in the eyes of the police and the news media. She said she has been disappointed by the Las Vegas police response, and that of the FBI, which became involved in Ms. Foster’s case last August. “You are not what you do,” she said angrily. “It was like she was to blame for what happened to her.” Officer Bill Castle, spokesman for Las Vegas police’s metropolitan division, which covers the casinos, said no statistics are kept on how many prostitutes go missing each year. “It’s not a statistical database we make _ based on their occupation,: he said. “There is a significant number of people who go missing involuntarily because something bad has happened to those who deal in criminal activity, whether it be prostitution or drugs. That lifestyle places people in jeopardy. The life-changing experience of having a missing child has thrust Ms. Grant into a kinship with the families of other missing people throughout North America. She stays in touch with those she had befriended, and trades information where possible. With her Internet skills, she has created an impressive website and online newsletter that she monitors daily. Her understanding employers let her work when she feels able. When asked why she has turned the search for her daughter into a nearly full-time occupation, she broke down. Through sobs, she said: “I just can’t see doing anything else for one of my babies. I brought her into this world and I’ll be damned if someone’s going to take her out of this world without me knowing what the hell happened. “I look at it this way. If it wasn’t for me every day spending all my moments looking for Jessie, I can honestly believe that nothing would be done on a daily basis. I feel that in the whole world I am the only person doing something every single day for over a year.” Mr. Foster, she said, has accepted that his daughter is dead and has moved on. Ms. Grant does not feel that way. “From the second that her death is proven, I will have the rest of my life to mourn her. I am really, really, really close with my daughters, and I just think I would feel something in the depth of my heart if she was dead. I think she is being kept against her will,” she said. “I get a strong feeling that she needs to be found and rescued.”
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2013 20:08:18 GMT
Taken From smallaa.com/p/You_Can_Kick_Her_but_You_Can_t_Keep_Her_Down_2273You Can Kick Her but You Can’t Keep Her Down Glendene Grant, she’s a mother, wife, grandmother, and friend just to name a few. In the little over two years that I’ve known Glendene I think she’s probably the strongest Lady I know. She has good days and bad days but how could she not when her daughter has been missing for two and a half years. Jessica Edith Louise Foster moved from Canada to Las Vegas, Nevada to live with friends and start her new life. Jessie got more than she bargained for. She moved in with Peter Todd he and Jessie became boyfriend and girlfriend. For all visual purposes Jessie seemed happy and in love with Peter Todd. Little did her family know Peter Todd is a pimp, he had put Jessie out to work for him. We still aren’t sure if she was forced into prostitution with possible threats to her family or not. Can you imagine having to send your DNA to possibly ID a DOA that was found in Texas? I lost my father to murder twenty-two years ago. He was missing for seventeen days before he was found. I thought I would go crazy in those days. To have to submit DNA to identify my loved one would have put me over the edge. Thank God it wasn’t Jessie! Glendene has been on a rollercoaster ride for this time. This is just one of many things to test Glendene’s strength. There are days Glendene gets so overwhelmed by everything that she is paralyzed. It’s an overwhelming heaviness that comes over you and all you can do is ball yourself up in the bed and cry. Most people call it depression I dislike the word myself since I’ve lived with it for twenty two years. Days and days go by and you’ve heard nothing which makes things worse always thinking the worst. I remember when I first met Glendene. She saw that some of the others site of missing loved ones had hundreds of hits some thousands. Donations were large and the website it’s self set up really nice. Glendene didn’t think Jessie’s site would ever have so much publicity or hits. I told her it all takes time and Jessie’s site would be the same soon. Still Glendene being a wonderful mother that she is wanted more publicity on her daughter’s case. Let me just say the Las Vegas Police weren’t doing anything. Glendene didn’t roll over and play dead she was like the Ever Ready Bunny she went to every talk show, magazine and newspaper that she could get through to tell Jessie’s story. Then she set up websites on every bog site and networking site you can think of. She’s a powerhouse I’m telling you right now. Glendene has had to confront the US and Canadian officials due to the amount of times she had come into the United States to look for her daughter. These officials thought Glendene was sex trafficking. They wouldn’t let her into the states. OMG can you believe that! I was so upset when Glendene told me that. Nobody cared that her daughter was missing, or possibly sold to human sex trafficking. My question is WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Sorry to be so bold but I just don’t understand. We need Glendene to get back to the United States to help aid in the search for her daughter. Annie, Hookers for Jesus are out walking the strip keeping an eye out. It’s not the same as Glendene being there asking the questions may be ride around check out things talk to the police. Glendene has been on a rollercoaster ride for this time. Several videos have been made about Jessie’s disappearance. I’ve made a few of them for Glendene as a pay it forward. Comments unfortunately have been left on some that are very ugly. I know they hurt her and I‘ve gotten really protective over her and her family. It makes you wonder what kind of person would say things like that about a person who is missing sold into human sex trafficking. It too makes me think were they "hatched from a egg". They couldn’t have been nurtured by a mother or anyone for that matter. I know most of you have seen Glendene’s NowPublic site and her stories about her daughter Jessica. I want everybody to know what a great person she is and how she’s been hanging on. I want to say one more thing about Glendene. When I first met this sweet Lady when she needed me just as someone did me in my time of need twenty two years ago. It’s hell but now Glendene will be able to give advice and help others out like she is. It just takes that one person to extend their hand and say I want to help you. It’s like I said, "You Can Kick Her but You Can’t keep Her Down"
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2013 20:09:04 GMT
Jessica Edith Louise Foster disappeared from North Las Vegas, Nevada on March 28th, 2006 after traveling to various locations in the United States. Hair Color: Blonde Eye Color: Hazel Height: 5' 6" to 5' 7" Weight: 110 to 120 lbs Age: Disappeared: 21 Current: 23 $50,000 Reward for Information She was last seen at 1009 Cornerstone Place with her boyfriend Peter Todd. Since her disappearance, Jessie has not contacted her family or friends, or accessed her cell phone, credit cards, or bank accounts. Click here for more details
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2013 20:09:49 GMT
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