SASKATOON – It’s been five years since the disappearance of Cody Ridge Wolfe. He was 17 years old when he went missing on April 29, 2011 from Lestock, Sask. His family continues to search for him.
“It still remains that his last known location was at the washout, which is north of the Lestock town, adjacent to the Muskowekwan First Nation, and he was going to a friends place,” says Myrna LaPlante, Cody Wolfe’s aunt.
Wolfe’s communication stopped after midnight somewhere between his grandmother’s house and a friend’s. RCMP believe Wolfe had to make a detour around a slough because the road was washed out.
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To this day, Cody’s father still checks the area where his son went missing.
“My brother was out again this week and what they do is they walk the perimeter of the washout to check to see if anything might have floated ashore,” says LaPlante.
According to LaPlante no major gains in the investigation have been made, but that doesn’t dampen spirits. The Wolfe family is adamant they’ll find Cody and won’t give up.
“I recall a comment that the investigator made at that time and he said, ‘anything is possible.'”
Cody Wolfe isn’t the only member of LaPlante’s family who is missing; her aunt, Emily Osmond, has been gone for nine years. Her search has been put on hold to focus on Cody.
Besides taking care of her own family, LaPlante volunteers her time to help others search for missing loved ones, including 22-year-old Justin Kishaynew, who went missing on Feb. 9 in Saskatoon.
“We’re gearing up for more searches with the Kishaynew and Abbott families and within the next couple weeks we should be out again,” says LaPlante.
Kishaynew’s search is taking place along the Meewasin Valley. Justin often walked along 22nd Street and the river.
According to the Saskatchewan Association of Chiefs of Police website, these are just three out of 122 long-term missing person cases that remain unsolved in Saskatchewan.