B.C. podcast credited with tipster coming forward in teen cold case

A B.C. podcast is being credited with a tipster coming guardant successful a missing person’s case.

In August, the True North Crime podcast covered the disappearance of 17-year-old Jodi Henrickson.

The teen vanished aft a location enactment connected Bowen Island successful 2009 and was past seen with her 19-year-old ex-boyfriend, Gavin Arnott.

At the time, helium was prohibited from being successful her company.

No charges person been laid successful the lawsuit and Henrickson has ne'er been found. However, aft the podcast covered Henrickson’s lawsuit successful a two-part series, idiosyncratic came guardant with accusation that whitethorn beryllium to beryllium crucial.

“We were initially floored that a extremity came guardant arsenic a effect of our occurrence alongside (documentary filmmaker) Jenni Baynham and Peter Cross, a retired IHIT investigator,” podcaster Caitlin Duffy said.

“It’s beyond our wildest dreams that idiosyncratic would travel forward.”

Husband and chap podcast host, Graeme, said they promote their listeners to beryllium progressive existent transgression listeners.

“So erstwhile we person an accidental similar this wherever idiosyncratic volition travel guardant and hopefully beryllium providing that past portion of accusation that’s going to springiness answers to a household who’s been long-suffering, it truly makes each of the enactment that we enactment successful worthwhile and each of the stories we tell, knowing that they are present resonating with radical to the constituent wherever they’re consenting to travel guardant with accusation that has been agelong withheld.”

Over the weekend, IHIT confirmed it was contacted by Baynham’s movie crew moving connected a documentary astir the missing teenager.

IHIT said the unit was searching connected Bowen Island successful the hopes of perchance uncovering evidence.

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“As a effect of their search, the movie unit contacted IHIT to study what they believed to beryllium imaginable evidence,” the enactment said successful a merchandise connected Wednesday.

“IHIT investigators attended the country and conducted an further search.”

They person not provided immoderate further details astir what was recovered oregon what the adjacent steps volition be.

Graeme said they hoped their podcast would let listeners to spot Henrickson arsenic a young miss with a agleam aboriginal up of her erstwhile she went missing.

“The idiosyncratic who heard this occurrence realized that the accusation that they were holding onto wasn’t accusation astir a troubled teen oregon a runaway,” helium said.

“The accusation that they had was astir a 17-year-old miss who was the unfortunate of intimate spouse unit and who is presumed to beryllium a suspicious death.”

The contented of the clip has not been disclosed.