What Happened To Emily Osmond? (Missing People Documentary) | Real Stories

[Music] [Music] my [Music] foreign [Music] here saskatchewan the outskirts of cockatoos first nation this was the last place emily osmond was seen she marked her days on the calendar to keep track of the medicine she took on september 13 2007 emily made her last entry before vanishing without a trace a hard-working businesswoman who raised several children as her own emily retired to a peaceful life in the country but her life was cut short emily osmond was 78 years old when she was last seen by her nephew on her property on the outskirts of cockatoos first nation in september 2007. her family believes she was taken because emily's dogs were abandoned and she told no one she was leaving at any time during this broadcast or afterward if you have any information that might help solve the case of the disappearance of emily osmond visit our website someone out there has answers our goal is to find them who could harm this peaceful elderly woman who gave so much to others how did emily become a target could emily have left her home without telling a soul what happened to emily osman no one could have suspected that emily osmond whose maiden name was laplante would have been at risk in her isolated trailer on the fence line of cockatoos first nation to emily's great niece jessica laplante the area was always safe we grew up in that community in that area for generations we did feel safe that was the land that my mother and my aunt and my grandparents you know that was where we were from it was our home community it was home emily was a tenacious woman who had worked hard her whole life but she was small and age had taken away some of her physical strength she walked with a cane she had arthritis in her hip uh didn't walk a long ways yeah she was limited in terms of her mobility emily loved all living things at the time of her disappearance she had approximately 30 dogs in her care she would collect any animal that was appeared to be stray or arrived at her doorstep and she just took them all and and that's i'm sure how she you know with her family she just took them all in and so from people to animals and and just uh the love of of a living living entity one of the last family members to see emily was her nephew myrna's brother he had found an owl and he brought it to her and and i guess they viewed it and and she was happy to see him and my brother knew that that she would find this interesting and fascinating just to see this owl the owl is traditionally a symbol of death but emily's nephew could never have known that bringing her the owl was the last time anyone in the family would see their auntie emily that year was a really really wet year in 2007 we had there was a lot of rain that summer the the the growth the underbrush was just really really thick the grass around her on the property there was also very thick and tall and and heavy and um there were there were situations where the the police were actually crawling or people would be crawling through the through the brush to try to you know get into different places and make sure that she wasn't in in the bush somewhere she would never leave her dogs she would never leave her purse she wouldn't leave without telling somebody and therefore it's suspicious it is possible that emily knew the person who took her from her home or a stranger may have tracked her when emily's niece april first heard the news she had a different idea at one time our elders knew how to die consciously they knew when they were going to go and they would get ready and they would take care of their families and they'd leave couple moose there for the winter and they would put their sage and their paint on and they would go up the mountain and they would leave consciously but because emily was unable to walk without her cane and the brush around her property was so dense because her body has never been found and because she never said goodbye foul play is strongly suspected there was foul play we've never found any remains the um whoever had been there had gone through all her little belongings and they had left tracks like taking a truck and drove it around and around and around and around to hide all of their tracks so the police didn't have anything to track that tells me there was premeditation to to hide something and i think her body was taken away and left somewhere else because there's been many many searches there um aerial searches dog foot horses elders have prayed done ceremony to help the dogs people the horses everybody have luck in finding her and nothing has been found so yes i do believe there was foul play there is little hard evidence connected to the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of emily osman if you have answers or to find out more visit our website emily didn't have much if anything to steal how could someone have hurt this gentle woman what did emily's family do to try to find her and did law enforcement do all they could to help who knows the truth about what happened to emily osmond [Music] emily osmond mysteriously vanished from her home on the outskirts of the cockatoos first nation saskatchewan in september 2007 leaving her property in animals she didn't tell anyone she was going and her family strongly suspects foul play if you have information that might help solve the case of the disappearance of emily osman visit our website although emily enjoyed solitude in her later years her family always kept an eye on her her great niece jessica remembers their shock that emily was gone she was 78 years old when she went missing so as an elderly woman to go missing in from her home community she lived a reclusive lifestyle and she chose to enjoy her space with her animals she was living out the country there and um i think just enjoying her her time her solitude really liked to be by herself she really enjoyed um alone time and she didn't she didn't really um you know mix a lot with the family at that time and you know while she lived there she would come and come and um join us for different uh family events and and so on people were always concerned about uh you know how she would fare in case anything did ever happen you know whether it was uh a you know a natural event or like storm or anything like that emily lived a peaceful existence in her later years but in her youth she left her home in saskatchewan and headed off for adventure she has a long and and interesting uh history from when she was a young girl born in in that area and then grew up and went to school and in the area then started employment as a as a nursing assistant lived in manitoba met her husband in manitoba and then moved to the yukon and spent many years in the yukon the yukon is incredibly beautiful no words can describe it emily lived very close to to the land we learned respect for mother nature we we learned respect for when you go hunting you take care of things you use all parts of the animal she taught us great respect for life the earliest memories i have of her are in the mountains in alberta and she was showing me hummingbirds and she taught me color the names of the colors of the world she was always very open open to the magic of life always a hard-working woman emily was a chef and ran three businesses she was unable to have children of her own but raised her brother's seven children and fostered many other kids she made the best panic she made the best soups she was an incredible soup cook she was a pastry cook she was like a cordon blue chef when she left yukon and came back to saskatchewan i don't think people really nobody here really saw all those kids she was deeply loved by all her kids when emily's marriage ended something changed in her i think it broke her heart she was uh from from the old school you know that when you get married it's marriage for life you learn to work things out and get along with each other and it's for life that was the school she had been raised in [Music] so when the marriage didn't work anymore i think it deeply affected her and she took to the road she got a van and she kind of traveled around in her van for a while and i think after a while she started to really appreciate her her being independent and single again emily settled back in saskatchewan and became a recluse when she went missing it was a shock to everyone family members and the people of the kawakatoos first nation wanted to join in the search the rcmp would not allow it people from the the cockatoos first nation and people nearby when word was received that she was missing that of course people wanted to come to help and and they were not allowed on the property to help law enforcement did not want to contaminate the scene but their search for emily didn't last long i had stopped them on on the road tonight and they said that you know they were done and that they couldn't find her and that was basically about it so we had to uh you know regroup our family at that point and and said okay you know what do we do from where do we go from here what do we do with emily gone the difficult decision was made to put each of her dogs down emily's family was left to come up with their own answers but one thing was sure emily was gone a few years later they suffered another tragic blow we had a call from our brother my brother was working north of saskatoon at that time and he said we can't find cody cody ridge wolf was 17 years old a grade 11 student when he went missing without a trace the loss of another loved one weighs heavily on the family the countless hours that i've heard of my family members spending looking for our loved ones of course there's the coordinated searches that have occurred with you know the assistance of rcmp and and other dedicated volunteers however yeah it's it's been a it's been it's been a very it's taken all taken a toll on our family myrna la plant is actively involved in both emily and cody's cases um i'm co-chair of our of our missing and murdered indigenous women and girls group a support group in in saskatoon escubaki which which is women walking together i think we just keep on going over the years we've had you know so much so much prayer for our family so much support and and and kindness shown to the family and and so much help that's provided i think so much strength rumors swirl around emily's case although her disappearance was years ago what action is being taken today what can a search manager share about the challenges of finding a missing person is there any chance that emily may be found and brought home [Music] emily osmond was taken from her property just outside of cockatoos first nation in saskatchewan on or around september 13 2007. given that she was 78 years old walked with a cane and would never leave her dogs it is clear that she did not leave of her own free will the search for emily osmond is ongoing as is the search for her nephew cody wolf if you have any information that might help solve the case of the disappearance of emily osmond or her nephew cody wolf visit our website although the families had their frustrations they now feel that everyone including law enforcement has learned to work together to better solve missing persons cases lloyd goodwill a volunteer search manager and retired rcmp officer believes that the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls is all of our responsibility in 1979 in february i joined the rcmp during that short 30 years or just about 30 years i honed some of my skills up for search and rescue i find it difficult sometimes to think that somebody missing is more important to somebody else that's missing it's not lloyd remembers emily's case coming across his desk as an rcmp officer searching for missing persons can take an emotional toll it first started long ago when i was in lloydminster and i i usually got choked up about that one here i was looking for a missing 12 year old girl her name was christopherski and i was up with my dog and myself and i had another person with me from red deer and here we were in the mountains up by nord egg a rocky mountain house and we're calling the name krista out that's my daughter's name sorry but we got through it here i was just sitting here calling for her it was tough but we made it here we are and we're still trying to help although emily's disappearance is a mystery her family will not pay attention to gossip or rumors somebody out there knows something and if somebody out there knows something and they're not telling you know saying anything you know what are they hiding right no there's definitely someone i feel responsible the rumor mill just gets crazy so when i'm when i'm doing the searches i i have to make sure that i stick to fact information there seems to be a a general sense of labeling of missing and murdered women that these are street people or they were hookers or something that's not the case this woman had a family she had a very productive life she was a businesswoman like she ran three businesses she had a nursing background she was at home by herself minding her own business when she went missing families are grieving because this is misunderstood these are family people we are family people emily osman's story tells us that there is risk for anyone even someone living a quiet peaceful life in a safe community emily's great niece jessica worries about her grandmother who lives right near where emily lived alone my grandmother just lives down the road from where emily disappeared there's this constant and concern and constant worry that we we feel about about like my grandmother's well-being a lot of the times like just to sit there and be with her and spend time with her so like she she doesn't have to be alone part of emily's legacy is to remind us to take care of each other and to show the people we love how much we love them while we still have the chance before she died i went to visit her and we were sitting in her like her little cabin and she had made some bannock we were having bannock and tea and this it was a saskatchewan sunset she had moved back to saskatchewan here and it was a beautiful golden sunset we were sitting there watching it and she said you know i worked so much all my life i forgot about god she said now i think about god i watch the sun sets she said so i think the things that made her happy were very simple things little animals little birds even [Music] nature different plants she knew a lot about the medicines um she was very in tune with nature and i think it was a very simple things like that that gave her a lot of joy just to to be a part of it if i could speak to her i would just say that you know she is loved and she has missed and and uh that we haven't given up and uh we're gonna continue to um make sure that she's never forgotten we just want to know where you are and and and we will do whatever we can to bring it home i guess i would like people to remember that that um she too had hopes and dreams she lived her life she lived a very fruitful and productive life but she had a wonderful laugh and she she she did her best to protect her family and i think that's for me is um there was no one there that night to protect her emily's family knows there is someone out there with information they want to lay her to rest and have peace for the woman they all love if you are the person that has information please you know there's many hurting family members out there that that would like to know that information and if you don't want to share it with the police crime stoppers is the way to go she said three things to remember be a lady always use face cream and a woman needs mad money and always keep your cart together i'd like people to remember that she she was an early feminist so [Music] for more information about emily osmond visit our website [Music] you

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Length: 21min 59sec (1319 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 13 2021