Brianne Wolgram | September 5th, 1998 | Age 19 | Missing | Revelstoke

[Desespere]

Brianne Ruth Wolgram
Age: 19
DOB: 1979/03/25
Missing
Date last seen: September 5, 1998
Location last seen: Revelstoke, BC

Brianne Ruth Wolgram - September 5th, 1998 - Age 19 - Missing - Revelstoke - Brianne was last seen between 11:00 and 11:30PM on September 5th, 1999, Labour Day Weekend - CP Rail Slowpitch Tourney Weekend,  at the 7-11 store in Revelstoke, B.C. Five days later, her abandoned vehicle (black Accura Integra, Gold coloured rims) was found 30 km south of Revelstoke up Echo Lake Road, in the general direction of the Akolkolex Falls & River (near the dam). Her wallet, drivers license and $200 cash were found in the vehicle. She was seen in the company of three young unidentified females at the 7-11 store. Brianne was last seen wearing blue jeans, a white t-shirt and black sandals. Eyes - Blue Hair - Light Brown, shoulder length. Often worn tied back. 5'2" and 130lbs
The fact that these girls have not come forward has been puzzling to all involved in this case.

The Missing Children Society of Canada (MCSC) is assisting police and searching parents in the active on-going search.They heve recently assisted by working with witnesses, a police hypnotist and a police artist to produce composite drawings of these mysterious girls seen with Brianne the night she vanished.
Please look over the drawings (computer generated) and see if you recognize who these girls are. These girls are NOT considered suspects in Brianne's disappearance, but persons of interest who might be able to provide investigators with a crucial piece of information such as Brianne's state of mind, her plans or where she went after leaving the 7-11 that night.
REVELSTOKE RCMP AT (250) 837-5255
REVELSTOKE CRIMESTOPPERS (CONFIDENTIAL) @ 250-837-TIPS
MISSING CHILDREN SOCIETY OF CANADA @ 1-800-661-6160
- THIS IS TOLL FREE FOR CANADA AND THE U.S.A.
http://hubpages.com/hub/what-happend-to-Brianne-Wolgram
http://www.nampn.org/cases/wolgram_brianne.html

[chet]

For those interested, there is a facebook site for Brianne that you can join. An awful lot of people with an awful lot of nice things to say about this young lady. Search under her name or "Brianne Wolgram - We Have Not Forgotten".

[chet]

http://hubpages.com/hub/what-happend-to-Brianne-Wolgram

[solvy]

this is a very strange case.  the police have not let out much info about the investigation, why not?  Its been 10 years already.  I wonder if LE has someone in mind, but again not enough evidence to convict, so the waiting game continues til new info comes forward.

[chet]

i look at these three unidentified girls in sketches, the girls who were supposedly with Brianne in the 7-11 the night she went missing. girls no one in Revelstoke--from what i've gathered--have identified. that, it would seem, points to out-of-towners.

Brianne's car parked out of town on a desolate stretch of road days later, wallet/i.d. and $200 cash in the car. clearly ditched, and i would wager the one place brianne isn't to be found is anywhere near the location of her car.

how did this nice, kind, conservative girl make the acquaintance of these three strangers? did she meet them online? was she seeking adventure and got more than she bargained for? or did these three strange girls get sent into town with an agenda, seeking to find someone at the behest of others, and come across Brianne that night?

so many questions. no answers. can't shake the feeling she's still with us...
 

[solvy]

Interesting that the weekend she disappeared a cn slowpitch tourney was in town.  Did she play in this? Maybe this was where the 3 girls came into the picture possibly girlfriends of players.  I would expect police checked this out already.

[tasha01]

Almost 11 years and still no answers, Between myself and a few others we have been posting Brianne's story every where possible in hopes that some one out there knows something. There is no possible way some one can fade away and be forgotten because no one knows what happend. Truth be told some one does know what happend and it is time they come forward and let the loving family of Brianne know where thier daughtor is and what has happend... no one is mad at you or will hate you if you come forward. 11 years is approaching and this is too long for any mother,father,brother , sister or cusin to go with out knowing what has happend to thier loved one. If you have a child or someone that is close to you wouldn't you like to know what has happend to them if they just dissapered? From one mom to another and from one friend to another please come forward and let the truth out so that the family can finally have some peace!!!!!!

[Chris]

Very sorry about your loved one. This is a very stragne case.

Did they ever take prints from her car? It seems rather strange to just leave everything in the car. No robbery or anything. Maybe those others know somthing?

[Chris]

this message was left thru the site by a person who did not leave a name nor e-amil


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I was a frequent traveller in the Revelstoke area from 1996 through till 2000. I was working on a project that would bring me to town for supplies several times a week. I used the local gas stations and quite often the drive through at the highway restaurants. It was on one of those trips a week or so before Brianne was reported missing that I witnessed an event that may be related.

I was accustomed to getting a coffee for the road late in the evening on the way through town. A girl whom I believe to be Brianne was working the window most nights at the local Macdonalds at the time. On this one particular night I drove up to the order board as usual and waited for a response. None came for along time and I called into the microphone repeatedly but got no answer. I got tired of waiting and didn’t want to miss the last chance to order as it was nearing closing time so I drove up to the window at an angle where I could see in. Near the back I saw Brianne standing there crying and sobbing hysterically. There was another girl beside her talking to her or consoling her over something. Brianne was really distraught and the other girl’s attention was focused on Brianne to the point she was ignoring everything else. I sat there for quite some time without anyone noticing me. Finally a male employee wearing a MacDonalds uniform came around the corner from within and upon seeing me sitting there, came to the window. He was acting a little strangely, looking back over his shoulder to see what I could see from where I was parked. He seemed to be searching my face to see if he could tell by my expression what I was thinking or how much I had seen. He got me a coffee as quickly as possible to get me on my way, didn’t even charge me and never said anything about what was going on.

I have been through a lot of drive throughs over the years and have never had anything like that happen before. A few days later I was again going through and stopped for a coffee at the same Macdonalds. The girl who had been beside Brianne the previous night had taken over the job Brianne had been doing and served me at the window. I asked her what had happened the other night and she at first pretended not to know what I was talking about. By the time she got my order she changed her story and acting quite nonchalant said ohh it was nothing and downplayed the event almost to the extreme. Whenever I went through again over the next while, she never said a word about it again but I could tell by the second glance she gave me each time that she had taken note of me, of my curiosity and knew that I had seen enough to make me suspicious.

The male who came to the window that night had also seemed somewhat concerned as to what I had seen. He was dark haired, clean cut, with a distinguishing pair of thicker than average glasses that made his eyes look bigger than usual. He was older than the teens working there and may have been the night manager.

It was near this same time when I saw a group of girls matching the description of those in the sketch that was being circulated following Brianne’s disappearance, hanging out at a gas station not far away. One of the girls, a blonde, slightly heavy set, associating with the others, worked there at the time serving gas. She was acting quite strangely in the presence of the other girls on that day, in a manner I had never seen from her before. It almost seemed she was asking for help but couldn’t talk for some reason. The other girls seemed to be watching her actions. This was the gas station on the opposite side of the trans Canada highway from Macdonalds to the right of the intersection if you left the highway going in that direction.

I once spoke with some locals involved in the search and relayed this story. Since then I have heard several more bits and pieces of information that were a little troublesome to comprehend. I heard that the police were likely quite aware who the group of girls were. I heard that the surveillance video from the 7 eleven was missing for the night of Brianne’s disappearance. I heard that when her car was found, there were no prints to be found, not even Brianne’s. I heard that a couple of Macdonalds employee’s (one male and one female) had changed their stories about their activities on the night that Brianne went missing.

Given that Brianne has never been found and the strange details surrounding her disappearance , I am left wondering if the incident I saw that night had anything to do with her disappearance. Whatever had happened that night had caused her extreme distress. I wonder if the investigation into her disappearance was compromised at the time so as not to drag MacDonalds name into the investigation. I’m sure that would be something the MacDonalds Corporation would hate to have come out if there was anything to it, female employees being assaulted and or kidnapped and murdered by a male MacDonalds employee!! I wonder what happened to those two employees since, the girl and her male associate from that night. Are they together as a couple now, have they moved on to another location, were there any more incidents wherever they went afterwards, etc…

If the girl and the male employee aren’t together, maybe the girl could be set up now to get her talking somehow?? Like a story of a huge cash reward for the location of a body, no questions asked.

I still wonder if the investigation would not have progressed further without the presence of the MacDonalds connection I’m sure MacDonalds has run into this sort of thing before in other places and possibly has more pull than anyone knows to thwart any adverse publicity that could result from these type situations if required?

[debbiec]

It's been over eleven years now since Brianne went missing. Perhaps the information in the post above will jog someone else's memory about something out of the ordinary that they saw or heard. You never know which little piece of information might be the one necessary in figuring out what happened to Brianne.

[chet]

To the Anonymous emailer:

I'm curious, if you happen to check back on the site, if when you say you spoke with people in town about what you witnessed if you spoke with the police at all? If you have not I would strongly encourage you do so. Revelstoke's always going to have that small town vibe, and yet in a town where everyone should know everyone else's business, nothing seems certain in Brianne's case. So likely the rumour mill is in full effect and who really knows anything? Please, the next time you are in town, drop by and talk to the RCMP. Or give them a call. Your info. could be crucial in breaking this case open!

[capeheart]

I believe you surely did see something that evening and you definitely should have gone to the police at that time. So much time has passed, but it would be certainly a good thing if you could explain what you had seen that evening. This woman was absolutely afraid and should have yelled out for you to call the police or something.  These women definitely were involved or they would have come forward and said that they were the people that were with her. They definitely are involved in her disappearance, I would say. So sad for her parents and family to have to live with this all of these years. Hopefully something will come up that will crack this case wide open.

[Desespere]

Is there any way someone could email me the poster above? the photo is too small to read or see and it is a very important piece of information. Maybe we could set up a photobucket site or something where all photos too large to post on Unsolved could be posted?
Ideas? Please PM me for my email address where you can mail the poster PDF to.

[NCI07]

On the Facebook site for her, there is a very good article to read - it includes details about Brianne's second job - at a gas station, and how her car was found. Just look in the "Photos" section and you will see an article split into 3 parts. You will need to click on each part and blow it up in order to read it. For some reason, this article disappeared on Saturday night, but it is now back up.

I am wondering if this case is not unsimilar to the 1997 Reena Virk case (lure and swarm). Violence among young girls wasn't atypical at that time, and the following is a good link that outlines various cases.
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0011450

[lostlinganer]

This cases really seems solveable.  The anonymous email painted a picture that can be added to in many ways.

I am wondering if this case is not unsimilar to the 1997 Reena Virk case (lure and swarm). Violence among young girls wasn't atypical at that time, and the following is a good link that outlines various cases.
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0011450

While this seems like a very likely possibility, (and I haven't gone to that link yet to the various case example - but I will) there can be too many reasons even imaginable, why young people lacking enough in character and integrity, would swarm and injure/kill another human being.  If there are young people this sick and afflicked with such poison, they will always find a reason to swarm and kill.  Nonetheless, this really bears following up indepth, in this particular situation.
Yet, I can't help but look to one plausible reason which comes to my mind because of the "drive through" buisness in general.  It was brought to the attention of many in the last few years, that some of these "drive throughs" are being used to "order"....and "pass over" drugs and payment.  If this were one of those situations, could it not be that this girl was one who didn't want to "take part" ..... "wanted Out" .... or unwittingly made some serious mistake with something she "passed over"  "said" or "missed" (for example: - nervously passing over the "expensive product" without getting the payment first....and perhaps the buyers speeding away:
Could the scene the anonymous emailer witnessed, be the point where she was told she was in "big trouble" and would have to pay the consequences?  
Could the two girls last seen with her have been lures pretending to be her protective friends - but then set her up to take her punishment and be made an example of?  
I know this may be an way off-the-road (scenerio wise) and nothing to do with this case; but it may have a lot to do (scenerio wise) with other disappearances of so many young men and woman last seen with so-called friends, who either have seen nothing, know nothing, or just don't even come forward - even when it is openly known a victim was last seen with or among them.
Enlighten your kids folks; there's big time sick pursuasive operators out there and among your children's friends, school mates and workmates..... the sad part of it is they fit right in!.... they are usually one of their peers.  Parents and families don't seem to realize that in many cases, the innocent appearing job sight where some of these young people are slaving for minimum wage, can often be just a cover for what is really going on.  ....and it carrys on into the afterhours, thier friends, their hangouts, and the sudden changes in their lives.  
And ask yourself this:  if your kid has got too much clothes, jewellery, maybe a drug habit showing, too much money to party, and never a minute to give you, it could be they are involved in more than working a take out for minimum wage.
just my humble opinion.....