Kimberly Michelle Ratushniak, 25, left Nanaimo, British Columbia and flew into John F. Kennedy International Airport on November 21, 2003, intending to find work as a nurse in New York. She told her mother she was staying at a Nurses Quarters on Long Island, a location that has not been identified, and made her calls from pay phones. She remained in sporadic contact into the new year and on New Year’s Eve 2003 spoke with a friend about plans to be in Times Square for the ball drop.

The last known contact came in early 2004 from Long Island, when she mentioned contemplating something about her five-year citizenship; after that call she was never heard from again. At the time she disappeared she was 5 feet 6 inches, about 200 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, a one-to-two-inch scar on the inside of her left forearm and a tattoo of a daisy and a butterfly on her lower back. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are handling the investigation.

Who knew Kimberly in New York or on Long Island in late 2003 and might have seen her at the Nurses Quarters, in Times Square, or using pay phones?