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Kris Syrzycki | 16 | Missing Coquitlam, BC | June 29, 2002

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Concerned:
Name: Kris Syrzycki
Date of Birth: August 1, 1985
Eye Colour: Blue
Hair Colour: Dark Blonde
Sex: Male

Missing Since: June 29, 2002
Missing From: Coquitlam, BC

Circumstances:
Kris was last seen in Coquitlam, BC. He was very distraught at the time of his disappearance. More photos and information is available at a website put together by Kris' family: http://www.ensc.sfu.ca/kris

IF YOU HAVE SEEN KRIS SYRZYCKI OR KNOW OF HIS WHEREABOUTS, PLEASE CALL:

1-800-661-6160 or 1-403-291-0705 tips@mcsc.ca

http://www.mcsc.ca/ProfileDetail.aspx?ID=43

debbiec:
I have posted a picture of  Kris Syrzycki below.

jellybean:
Concerned: Very wonderful of you to start a thread on this young man.

I have posted on more of the circumstances below.
tp://archive.thenownews.com/issues07/065207/news/065207nn3.html

Father of teen missing for five years still holds out hope he'll be found alive

By Simone Blais - Staff Reporter

This Friday, Marek Syrzycki will go to work and try to go about his routine as if the day holds no special meaning.

After all, the Coquitlam father got through Easter, not to mention Christmas.

There have been so many Easters and Christmases and birthdays since June 29, 2002, the day his son, Kris, went missing.

And five years later, Syrzycki says he doesn't want to do anything special to commemorate the day his son disappeared, except bring the case up again in people's minds by imploring anyone with information to come forward.

"It's very hard to talk about it, even right now after five years," Syrzycki says, adding that for a long time he refused to give interviews because it was too painful. "I was disappointed about talking to many people and seeing nothing happen.

"It's still very hard. I went through very tough times, and many people were helping me. Right now, I'm trying to operate in normal mode, and I do my best. But circumstances (like the anniversary) make me remember some sad moments in my life."

Kris was a typical student who got above-average marks and liked computers, playing the saxophone and cycling. He was fluent in English and Polish, and also took French immersion studies for a third language.

The Centennial Secondary student, known as Rafal to friends, lived with his father, an engineering professor at Simon Fraser University, since his mother's death nine years before.

The young man wasn't known for behaviour typical of a runaway, as family has noted there were no indications of personal problems or difficulties at home or school prior to his disappearance. In fact, Kris had been more pleased with himself than usual, given that he had just passed his driver's licence exam.

But on June 29, 2002, Kris ran out of his house, jumped on his 18-speed bike and then vanished.

His father had been out of town, and Kris went to a party, where one of the girls drank too much. Both she and Kris were dropped off back at the Syrzycki family home on Lomond Street in Coquitlam, and Kris tried to look after the girl. He became worried about her health, and reportedly felt responsible for her being sick.

Police later found his green, 18-speed Raleigh mountain bike below the Patullo Bridge in New Westminster, about 10 to 20 kilometres from his house, where his identification and personal belongings remained.

Police do no believe the young man met with foul play, and call his disappearance a mystery.

The family created a website that includes a variety of pictures of Kris, details of the case and how people can provide information about the boy's whereabouts or touch base with Syrzycki.

Initially, the site drew 50 to 60 reported sightings of Kris, from Vancouver to Whistler, none of which panned out.

Kris's father says he still hears from people who stumble across the website, but it's never exactly the message he wants to hear.

"The website is active and people are contacting me from time to time, but these are mostly strangers from different parts of the world," he says. "They are discovering this website and they are giving me their sympathies and telling me they are with me.

"This is very nice, although it doesn't happen very often."

Syrzycki has been working with the Missing Children's Society of Canada, a national organization that has helped police close more than 5,300 cases in the last 20 years, and is extremely grateful for its help.

The society led the charge a few years ago, organizing a search of the Fraser River and its estuaries with police and search dogs from Alberta.

"We went to the river searching for some traces, but it wasn't successful," Syrzycki says.

"But I'm very, very pleased with what they are doing to help me."

The society is active in more-current missing persons cases, such as Jeffrey Surtel of Mission and Brittany Stalman from Delta, who have both been missing for several months.

But even though the trail may be more fresh on those cases, society members say they don't give up on children who have been missing several years.

"We will continue our investigation for as long as it takes and we will not stop until we find Kris," Dave Chittick, one of the society's investigators, said.

Granted, if Kris is still alive, he is no longer a child. On Aug. 1, he would turn 22 years old.

Syrzycki is hoping that Kris's friends in attendance that night will be more willing now to come forward with information as adults.

"I still suspect some people will know something and will come forward with information," he says. "Maybe those same people today would be more open today to help.

"I don't know where they are right now, but we need to refresh people's minds. The major concern is that they were mostly kids five years ago, and the kids were mostly in denial mode.

"They didn't tell what they maybe could tell.

"I would appeal to them somehow, now that they are matured adults, they might have a different sense of responsibility to step forward with information they didn't disclose before."

And Syrzycki doesn't want to limit the appeal to just Kris's friends who happen to read this, as he has a special message for his son: "I would like to ask him to come back, that simple. Or at least give some message that he's alive and he's well."

* If you have any information as to Kris's whereabouts, contact the Missing Children Society of Canada at 1-800-661-6160 or visit the family's website at www.ensc.sfu.ca/kris.

published on 06/29/2007

Very thoughtful of you to set up a thread for this young man
How tragic.  My heart goes out his Father.

PEACE
JB

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