Immaculate Mackie Mary Basil, 27, disappeared after leaving a gathering on the Tachie Reserve in the early hours of Friday, June 14, 2013. She had spent the evening running errands with siblings and was headed to a party; later she left that gathering with her younger cousin and an older man. Immaculate was a devoted mother to a five-year-old son and did not pick him up the next day, which prompted her family to report her missing.

The two men who last said they were with her told authorities their truck crashed on a remote logging road and that Immaculate walked away from the vehicle afterward. A witness later reported seeing one of the men walking into town with his clothes wet to chest level. Rumors of a woman resembling Immaculate attempting to hitchhike were investigated and found to be false. Both men reportedly passed polygraph tests, but troubling inconsistencies remain.

Search and rescue teams, the RCMP and hundreds of community volunteers searched rugged, remote terrain on foot, by ATV and from the air, but found no trace of Immaculate, no belongings and no sign of a struggle. Her disappearance is one of several unsolved cases of Indigenous women and girls along British Columbia’s Highway of Tears. A reward for information remains in place.

Did anyone who was in the area around Kuz Che Reserve on June 14, 2013, or who recognizes the account above, have information to share?