Eva Pucci Couture just has to think about the 2019 disappearance of her son and she dissolves into tears.
There have been numerous searches on Elk Mountain in Chilliwack for 25-year-old Kristofer Couture in recent years but not a single trace of him has turned up.
B次元官网网址淚B次元官网网址檓 here today because itB次元官网网址檚 been five years to the day that Kris went missing,B次元官网网址 Couture said.
Couture was stationed outside the Sardis Safeway in Chilliwack all day on Friday (Jan. 26), graciously accepting donations alongside Chilliwack Search and Rescue, and Chilliwack Salvation Army Food Bank.
She was greeting community members, through her tears, and letting them know that her sonB次元官网网址檚 still missing, and sheB次元官网网址檚 still looking for him.
Her sorrow is all their efforts and kind wishes have turned up nothing to date.
She was on Elk Mountain on Thursday (Jan. 25) in Chilliwack when her phone rang. Someone was pledging $10,000 in new reward money to continue to the search for answers.
The only trace of Kris they found was his car with Alberta plates, at the trailhead of the Elk Mountain on Jan. 26, 2019.
Kris had reported to his roofing job workplace in Maple Ridge on Jan. 25, and had exercised at a gym in Burnaby on that same day. He was last seen leaving the Royal Columbian in New Westminster the following day.
Couture has described her sonB次元官网网址檚 absence as being akin to missing a B次元官网网址減ieceB次元官网网址 of herself.
She hopes the new topped-up reward money, now totalling $20,000, will help jog someoneB次元官网网址檚 memory.
B次元官网网址淚 cannot express our gratitude enough for their generosity.
B次元官网网址淲eB次元官网网址檙e hoping weB次元官网网址檒l get some more tips because there have been so few since the pandemic hit,B次元官网网址 she said.
SheB次元官网网址檚 also planning to print out some fresh missing posters.
B次元官网网址淪o IB次元官网网址檓 hoping with the increase in reward money someone will remember something. So either theyB次元官网网址檒l keep searching that mountain with me or maybe theyB次元官网网址檒l just remember something from 2019.
B次元官网网址淏ecause there are still so many unanswered questions.B次元官网网址
Couture said she doesnB次元官网网址檛 know if he actually went hiking on that fateful day of his disappearance, or was on the mountain at all? His car was found, with the back window smashed out several months after he went missing.
Maybe someone will remember seeing him in January 2019.
The mountain is holding all the cards, Couture said.
B次元官网网址淚B次元官网网址檝e tried to conquer that mountain but the mountain conquers me every time,B次元官网网址 she said.
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