The Search For Sarah-Personal Narrative

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The search for a friend Search for Sarah - this site how it began: Sarah deVries disappeared Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at approximately 4:30 in the morning at the corner of Princess and Hastings. On Monday April 13 at about 7 PM Sarah called. She wanted to come over and visit for awhile. I had known her for just over 5 years and we had become good friends over time. So I picked her up at the Beacon Hotel on East Hastings and Carroll St. where she was waiting and then drove back to my place. W e talked and had something to eat and she took some vitamins. Sarah always tried to stay in the best of shape despite her lifestyle. She needed some of her clothes and so she grabbed a pillowcase of clothes to take with her. [her clothes were always…show more content…
This was not like her. I walked up and down Hastings St. asking almost everyone I came into contact with if they had seen her or knew her. Sarah was well known on the east side. No one had seen her. I then called 911 to put in a missing persons report and was told you had to be family to do that so immediately I called Sarah's sister Maggie, and she filed a missing persons report. I was the first of her friends to go in for an interview with Det. Al Howlett of the VPD Missing Persons Unit. I gave him the latest picture of Sarah and then was interviewed. I told him it was not like her to just up and disappear. Family and friends agree. Sarah's support was here and she had many ties to the downtown eastside community. She could not and would not have left the city on her own. Something terrible must have happened. She was not the transient type who moved around from place to place. Sarah was afraid to leave Vancouver. She also has two children, Jeanie and Ben who live with her mother Pat and Aunt Jean back East and she woul d not have wanted them to think something terrible had happened. At that time in April of 1998 she was the fifth woman involved in the sex trade to

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