“Today’s the 20th anniversary and the family’s doing OK,” said Cheryl Duggan, speaking about the death of her twin sister Lynn twenty years ago.
“And it also falls on Father’s Day, and my dad is such an amazing father, and I wanted to honour him and how he kept the family together and know Lynn’s never forgotten,” she added.
Lynn Duggan was 34 years old in 1993 when she was reported missing after she didn’t show up for work at London Drugs in North Vancouver.
Her skull was found in a forest in North Vancouver in 1994, but the rest of her body has never been found.
Former Vancouver police officer and Lynn’s boyfriend, Brock Graham, was charged with her murder in 2005, and sentenced to life in prison.
“20 years is a long time to be without your twin, and to have a family suffer,” said Cheryl.
She said what made the ordeal really hard was the fact that they didn’t have Lynn’s body. “We were glad to see him put away, but it didn’t bring her back, and it didn’t take the hurt away either,” she said.
“I want to know why, I want to know what her last thought was.”
“She was just so tiny and he was such a big guy. For Lynn to have upset somebody, to make them want to hurt her that way, and then to continue to hurt her, and then continue to do what he did, and then dispose of her like she was garbage, I’ll never understand that. She wouldn’t hurt a fly and I don’t understand to this day,” said Cheryl.
Graham served with the Vancouver Police from 1981 to 1990 and had been dating Duggan for about three weeks before she disappeared.
He was also convicted of a similar crime, for the death of 41-year-old Patricia Ducharme in 1996. She was found dead in a bathtub in a home in Campbell River where she had been living with Graham.
While it has been two decades without her twin sister, for Cheryl Duggan, Lynn is never far from her mind.
“Twenty years to me, it’s been twenty years how long we’ve been without Lynn,” she said.
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