Tina Fontaine was a 15-year-old Indigenous girl from Sagkeeng First Nation who came to Winnipeg in summer 2014 and did not return home. The last confirmed day she was seen alive was August 8, 2014. That morning police stopped a truck she was a passenger in; she later gave officers her real name but was allowed to leave. Hours later she was found unconscious, revived by paramedics and taken to the Health Sciences Centre, then placed in an emergency hotel placement from which she left.

On August 17, 2014 Tina’s body was recovered from the Red River near the Alexander Docks, wrapped in a duvet cover tied shut and weighted with about 11.5 kilograms of rocks. Decomposition and immersion prevented a definitive cause of death; the pathologist found no major traumatic injuries and could not establish drowning or smothering as the cause. Investigators focused on Raymond Joseph Cormier, who Tina had met in Winnipeg. He was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in December 2015, tried in January–February 2018, and acquitted by a jury on February 22, 2018. No one has been convicted in connection with Tina’s death.

Are there readers who knew Tina, saw her in Winnipeg that August, or have information that could help fill gaps in what happened to her?