Brandon's father used to work for the Victoria Police.

This tragedy really had an affect in me. Tyler was a really good kid. I didn't know him personally but friends of mine did.

Brandon was also a bouncer.
His physical stature and strength were no match for Tyler.
Brandon had essentially sucker-punched him.
Tyler wasn't ready for the blow.

I don't know if I still have the original screen shots from Brandon's Facebook page.
I took them, and shortly after it was wiped clean of anything that showed him in a negative light.

One quote I do remember clearly was "Talk shit get hit"

Victoria, I tried to play that video and it wouldn't play, maybe I'll try later on again. I will be watching NBC tonight, but have to check what time the program is on here. 

My apologies. For some reason you have to play it about 2 minutes into it. It's blank for the first while.

i live here in victoria cape.....
and there is something very HINKY about the boyfriend....
yes i could be totally wrong, but for some reason i feel very strongly about him.......

I feel the same way. Can't put my finger on it.
Here he speaks for the first time since the murder.
I cannot find a link except on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=614568294276&ref=mf

There is nothing I can find in regular media outlets.
There is a facegroup set up to help find her.
This is the missing poster available on the group.

What is unnerving about this missing girl is a young woman's body
was found torched on the next evening after Kimberly was reported missing.

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/RCMP+seek+public+help+solving+brutal+homicide+young+woman/2709462/story.html
RCMP seek public's help in solving homicide
 
Woman's torched body found off Galloping Goose Trail at Langford-Colwood border; foul play ruled out in man's death in Colquitz River Park
 
By Katie DeRosa, Times Colonist March 21, 2010
 
RCMP are asking for the public’s help in solving a brutal homicide, after a young woman’s badly burned body was found Friday in a wooded area next to the Galloping Goose Trail along the Langford-Colwood border.

The fact that the body was torched has made it difficult for police to identify the woman or determine her age, RCMP Island district spokesman Cpl. Darren Lagan said Sunday. Nothing at the scene was found that would help identify her, he said.

Investigators are using forensic examination and analyzing the 29 missing-persons cases in the southern Vancouver Island area, he said.

Police found evidence that a fire had burned where the body was found on a wooded embankment next to Millstream Creek. However, it’s not clear how the woman died.

The woman’s body was discovered Friday around 7:50 p.m. by a pedestrian walking over the bridge on a section of the trail between Atkins Avenue and Wale Road. Her body was lifted out of the creek Saturday evening and the well-traversed trail was reopened.

The person responsible for the crime is still at large, Lagan said, and he is warning joggers and cyclists — especially girls and women — to be extremely cautious while using the trail.

“We can’t say with certainty that there isn’t a risk [to the public],” Lagan said.

Police are trying to determine when the crime occurred and are asking anyone who was in the area Thursday or Friday to contact them.

“Did you see, hear or smell anything unusual in the area? If so, we need to hear from you as soon as possible,” Lagan said.

A second body — this time that of a middle-age man — was found at 9 a.m. Sunday morning off the trail that runs through Colquitz River Park, near Interurban Road in Saanich. But police have ruled out foul play in that case and said there are no links to the Colwood homicide.

The man’s name was not released and police have turned the investigation over to B.C. Coroners Service to determine the cause of death. Police have not said whether it was a suicide.

Back along the Langford-Colwood border, an RCMP dive team scoured Millstream Creek’s rushing waters under the Galloping Goose Sunday morning. They were looking for a weapon or other evidence that might point to how the body ended up there.

Almost everyone who crossed the bridge Sunday morning was asked by police to identify themselves. Passersby were asked questions about their most recent visits to the scene and whether they had heard or seen anything suspicious in the last few days.

Dozens of investigators from the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit, West Shore RCMP, the RCMP Forensic Identification Unit and the B.C. Coroners Service are working the file, trying to piece together what happened. Police expected to clear the scene by Sunday night.

Residents of a subdivision that backs onto the Galloping Goose Trail near where the body was found expressed shock.

“I’m very upset about it. It’s very sad,” said Lynn Tedford, who lives on Loiacono Place, in a subdivision recently built by Pacifica Housing.

Police asked neighbours where they were Wednesday and Thursday nights and whether they had heard or smelled anything unusual, Tedford said. Most said they hadn’t noticed anything.

Jenny Gingras, who lives on the street, said investigators were asking how often youth gather under the bridge.

She said that on most weekend nights, teens are down there drinking and partying — which might be why loud noises or shouting might not seem out of the ordinary to residents.

Under the bridge, the support structures and an old pipeline are covered in graffiti. The area is littered with debris.

Police have not said how long the body had been there before it was found, but Gingras said that portion of the trail tends to be very busy with joggers and cyclists.

“I don’t see it [the woman’s body] being there very long,” she said.

Russell Kennedy said police asked him whether he had heard cries for help. He said he’s often up late and goes outside frequently to smoke, but didn’t hear anything the last few nights.

“If somebody was to scream, I’d hear it,” he said. “You don’t take this lightly, it’s right out our front door.”

On March 20, 2007 — almost exactly three years ago — a woman’s body was discovered face-down in Millstream Creek under the bridge, an apparent suicide.

Area residents remember the incident well but say the fact that violence was involved in the latest death worries them more.

“It’s a park and we’re going to lose it if this keeps happening,” Tedford said.

Alex Carey, a father with young kids, said the incident concerns him but doesn’t make the neighbourhood any less safe.

“I’m not going to let something like this change my lifestyle,” he said.

The B.C. Coroners Service will conduct an autopsy Monday, which police are hoping will reveal the woman’s identity.

Anyone with information is asked to call West Shore RCMP at 250-474-2264 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8472.

- with files from Sarah Petrescu

kderosa@tc.canwest.com
© Copyright (c) The Victoria Times Colonist

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/facebook-offers-clue-in-missing-woman-case/article1208541/

Ian Bailey

Vancouver — From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Friday, Jul. 10, 2009 02:41AM EDT

Facebook postings have prompted police to conclude that it is possible a Fraser Valley mother of three who disappeared two years ago is being held against her will somewhere in the region.

A police spokesman said Monday that investigators came around to this “new investigative working theory” after Facebook postings on a page to help find Candace Shpeley said she had been spotted recently in downtown Chilliwack, B.C., and at a Wal-Mart and Price Mart Foods outlet in the area. One report placed her in a green truck.

Investigators are working to track down the people who posted the reports after Ms. Shpeley's father spotted them and called the police.

Ms. Shpeley, an Abbotsford resident, was 23 when last seen in April, 2007.

Her car was abandoned on a quiet, residential stretch of East 17th Avenue in Vancouver, where Corporal Dale Carr, a spokesman for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, briefed the media on the latest developments.

As he worked through the briefing, Ms. Shpeley's father, Barry, looked on.

Cpl. Carr said the working theory is based on one line of logic being followed by IHIT officials, who took over the case in 2007 from police in Abbotsford.

“At the time she went missing, she was a 23-year-old mother of three,” Cpl. Carr noted.

Ms. Shpeley's children – two girls and a boy – are aged eight, seven and six. Custody issues had arisen with former partners, but were resolved when the single mother vanished. She was not known to police.

“It takes a great deal of will to drag a mother away from her three children, a great deal of will to have a mother not respond to the family over the course of two and a half years. It's been two Christmases, several birthdays and there's been no contact.

“To us, it spoke to two issues – whether she is being held unwillingly or she has met with foul play.”

He said police are hoping for the first possibility.

He noted it would have been more helpful for people to call police instead of just throwing their observations on Facebook.

“Simply posting it on Facebook really doesn't help our investigation and doesn't really help reunite Barry and the children with Candace,” he said.

The Facebook page, which had 314 members Monday, noted that Ms. Shpeley's cellphone and bank account have not been used since her disappearance.

Mr. Shpeley said he hoped his daughter would get in touch to let the family know she's okay.

“We're not upset with her. We're not mad at her. We just want to know she's all right.”

Asked if he thought his daughter alive, he replied. “Yes. Maybe. Possibly. I don't know.”

He said his daughter had never previously been in trouble or shown inclinations to vanish. He added “nothing makes sense,” particularly the possibility that she was in Chilliwack, because he lives in Chilliwack.

“Would you hide out where people know you?”

He said he did not see it as likely.

“But, as Dale Carr says, keeping a mom and her children apart is hard, so maybe she has been allowed to get out and try to spot her kids somewhere.”

He said the children are well, and living with family. Ms. Shpeley has one sibling, an older brother.

“[The children] don't know her situation, but they know their mommy is missing. They talk about mommy. We all talk about mommy.”

He said he had a request for anyone who might spot his daughter.

“Sit on her. Call me. Call the police. Ask her if it's her. If it's her, ask her to call home. Say, ‘Look. People are looking for you. Just call home.' She knows the number.”

http://www.timescolonist.com/boyfriend+denies+role+Squamish+teen+disappearance/1750917/story.html

Ex-boyfriend denies role in Squamish teen's disappearance
 
'She's a really smart girl and I just hope she's found': Young man on probation tells of Bowen Island party, encounter
 
By Laura Stone, The Province

July 2, 2009 8:34 AM
 
 
The young man who believes he was the last to see Jodi Henrickson before she disappeared admits he'd been ordered not to go near her.

That's the story being told by her ex-boyfriend, Gavin Arnott, as the search for the 17-year-old Squamish girl moves into its second week.

"According to the police, I was the last person to see her, which puts me in a really bad spot, 'cause it makes me look like I did something," Arnott, 20, told The Province yesterday.

Arnott said he had passed out at a house party on Bowen Island and was awakened by Jodi, who was also at the party.

At around 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 20, they walked along Miller Road toward Arnott's father's house. He said he and Jodi talked tensely for a few minutes, and he left without looking back.

She hasn't been seen since.

Arnott said it was the second time Jodi had contacted him since he was given a conditional discharge June 5 for assaulting her April 8. He said the fight in April started when she threw a motorcycle helmet and a computer monitor at him.

"At that point I jumped on her, and grabbed her and dragged her out to my front door."

A court sentenced Arnott to 18 months' probation. He was ordered to have no contact with his ex-girlfriend, whom he'd dated for a year and three months.

Arnott said that the first time they saw each other after he was sentenced they met at a Brackendale park near Squamish. He said Jodi tricked him into meeting her.

"She yelled to me, 'If you don't talk to me, I'm going to tell the police you did talk to me,' " he said. "She kind of blackmailed me into it, but I didn't have a problem with it, either. I really missed her a lot."

After their encounter on Bowen, Arnott said, "I didn't see if she walked off, or what happened.

"She'd been talking earlier that night about, like, me taking my dad's truck and running away with her, but she was drunk, right, and I don't know if she would have actually carried that out or not."

Arnott said he was questioned for about eight hours that day by police, who brought him to tears when they accused him of hurting the girl he says he still loves.

Squamish RCMP Cpl. Dave Ritchie said yesterday that an ex-boyfriend of Jodi's attended the same party as she did on the night of June 19 and into the next morning. He did not name Arnott, or confirm that he was the last to see her on the island, although he said the girl was spotted sometime between 4 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. June 20.

Ritchie also said the ex-boyfriend had been interviewed by police. No charges have been laid.

As for the ex-boyfriend's apparent breach of probation for being in contact with Jodi, Ritchie said: "That'll be looked at during the investigation."

Yesterday, helicopter, dog and search-and-rescue crews continued to look for the teen. Ritchie said the investigation remains focused on the island, although they're "exploring the possibility" that she may have left. He added police have looked at video from the Bowen ferry terminal.

Tiffany Sweet, 17, who claims she is Jodi's best friend, said the teen told her she was going camping with friends but went to Bowen instead.

Sweet thinks her friend, a soon-to-be Grade 12 student from Howe Sound Secondary, may have tried to hitchhike to Horseshoe Bay.

"She likes to meet new people and she's not shy that way, and she could have met just the wrong person and thought they were friendly," she said. "She was really flirty."

Another friend, Chelsea Armstrong, added that Jodi also had friends in West Vancouver and Whistler.

Jodi's brother and her cousin, Crystal Henrickson, said it was unusual for the teen to be out of touch, especially with her mother. She was also active on Facebook, and has not logged on since she vanished.

They also said their family did not approve of her relationship with Arnott. "He's supposed to be thrown in jail if he talks to Jodi," said Rob.

Arnott said his ex-girlfriend would sometimes fight with her family, and that she lived with him and his mother for a month or so, about half a year ago. As for the family's opinion of him, "I don't think they're very fond of me, because of what happened on April 8."

He added: "After the sentencing on June 5, I've learned a lot. I've always walked away from a fight."

Asked by The Province whether he had anything to do with Jodi's disappearance, he replied forcefully: "No, I didn't."

Arnott said he's been in touch with some of her friends in hopes of finding her. "I'm really worried about Jodi," he added. "I'm hoping she's safe and everything. She's a really smart girl and I know she's probably safe and I just hope she's found. I wouldn't do anything to hurt Jodi again."

E-mail: lstone@theprovince.com
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