Whisper
September 19th, 2009, 09:20 PM
His head bowed and eyes welling with tears, the teenage son of Sherri McLaughlin begged Thursday for information from the man police believe killed his mother 16 years ago.
"I really, really want my mom back. I never got to know her, I was only one when she went missing," Stephen McLaughlin, 17, said at an RCMP news conference Thursday.
Sherri McLaughlin's mother Jackie White sobbed as the slight, bespectacled teen asked the suspect to show the family some compassion by revealing his mother's whereabouts
McLaughlin's disappearance and presumed murder has gone unsolved since she vanished Sept. 19, 1993 while riding her bicycle to an ex-boyfriend's house in Kamloops.
For 16 years, the damaged bike and other evidence sat in boxes, periodically pulled out when frustrated officers revisited the historical file. Then, last year, investigators conducting another file review connected the dots between old clues and new ones, and zeroed in on one main suspect.
The RCMP describe him as a dangerous offender imprisoned in the Lower Mainland in connection with a violent sexual assault on Vancouver Island.
Police would not release his name.http://www2.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=75f7dd6c-7b5a-48e2-a60b-48e890371e65http://i38.tinypic.com/eryck4.jpg
"I really, really want my mom back. I never got to know her, I was only one when she went missing," Stephen McLaughlin, 17, said at an RCMP news conference Thursday.
Sherri McLaughlin's mother Jackie White sobbed as the slight, bespectacled teen asked the suspect to show the family some compassion by revealing his mother's whereabouts
McLaughlin's disappearance and presumed murder has gone unsolved since she vanished Sept. 19, 1993 while riding her bicycle to an ex-boyfriend's house in Kamloops.
For 16 years, the damaged bike and other evidence sat in boxes, periodically pulled out when frustrated officers revisited the historical file. Then, last year, investigators conducting another file review connected the dots between old clues and new ones, and zeroed in on one main suspect.
The RCMP describe him as a dangerous offender imprisoned in the Lower Mainland in connection with a violent sexual assault on Vancouver Island.
Police would not release his name.http://www2.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=75f7dd6c-7b5a-48e2-a60b-48e890371e65http://i38.tinypic.com/eryck4.jpg