“I would say that my life has been hell since Emma disappeared,” says Shelley Fillipoff . “There’s not a moment that goes by that I don’t think about her, or wonder about her, or feel her inside me.”
Emma Fillipoff went missing one year ago on Nov. 28, 2012, in Victoria. There has been no trace of her since.
“It’s painful for myself, it’s painful for my whole family, and my biggest worry, concern, is where she might be and what might be happening to her and how awful it is her mother can’t get to her to help her,” says Shelley.
Emma, 26, called her mother in Ontario on Nov. 27, 2012 and told her she wanted to come home but didn’t want to make the trip on her own. The next day, the 28, she called again saying she no longer needed help. Shelley did not come to Victoria but received a few more calls from her daughter. When she stopped hearing from her she flew to Victoria and found out Emma had left a women’s shelter where she was staying and had disappeared.
Shelley is heartbroken.
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“I didn’t return to work,” she says.
“I keep looking at different avenues, different ways to search, I wrack my brain everyday and think ‘OK I need to come up with a new search tactic.'”
Police are not considering this case a cold case or a closed case, but Shelley says the trail was cold from the minute Emma went missing.
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A few months ago she offered a reward of $25,000 for any news relating to Emma’s disappearance.
“That generated a pretty, I won’t say solid, but a good tip from someone in Winnipeg, in that she, someone who called, I don’t know who it is, firmly believed that she had seen Emma.”
However, that clue went cold when surveillance footage turned up images of someone who police said was not Emma.
“I have to be hopeful, nothing good is going to come from not being hopeful,” says Shelley.
“I feel 50/50, that’s the best I can do. I spend more time in the positive 50 because that’s just going to drag me down. I dream, I hope, of Emma picking up the phone one day and saying ‘mom, it’s me, it’s Emma.'”
Anyone with information can contact Victoria police at 250 995-7654 or join the Facebook page.
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