Searchers were out Monday looking for any sign of a Cowichan Valley father who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Ben Kilmer was last seen on May 16.
“This has been a hellish journey, I’m not going to lie,” wife Tonya Kilmer said.
“It’s been very, very difficult and now this is unfathomably difficult. I never imagined I’d be living in this nightmare.”
Tonya says the disappearance is deeply out of character for the 41-year-old father of two.
Get breaking National news
“It’s a mystery because he would never leave us,” she said.
Surveillance video showed him at a job site. His work van was later found abandoned along Cowichan Lake Road with the engine running. Adding to the mystery, a small amount of blood was found inside the vehicle.
Tonya said Ben is a good outdoorsman who values his family above all else, but they had recently been going through an exciting but stressful time.
- Backstreet Boys’ 12-show Toronto run offers millennials a ticket to simpler times
- Stellantis workers begin voting on strike mandate as talks remain stalled
- How Canada’s fractured immigration consensus is starting to show up at ballot boxes
- Millions in funding put toward Manitoba First Nations Police, safety officers
“We’ve been going through some stress,” she said. “He started his own business, he’s building us a dream home.”
She said the support they’ve received from the community is comforting, but they want him home.
“I know he feels me, I know he’s hanging on, I know he’s fighting,” Tonya said. “Hang on, baby. We’re going to find you.”
Comments
Want to discuss? Please read our Commenting Policy first.