Searching for Jessica Foster

JH — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:18:35 +0000

Official website for missing JESSIE FOSTER http://ping.fm/B9R8P

JH — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:03:19 +0000

Official MISSING JESSIE FOSTER website

JH — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:51:46 +0000

THERE’S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT JESSICA…

SHE’S MISSING

Posted By: Patriotlad <Send E-Mail>
Date: Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 1:25 a.m.

SOMETIME AFTER THE DATE MARCH 28th OF 2006

A YOUNG CANADIAN GIRL WENT MISSING IN LAS VEGAS

“There’s something about Jessie”

Her full name is — Jessica Edith Louise Foster

and in May of this year she will turn twenty-four:

Then again, perhaps not: no member of her family has

heard from her, by telephone or other means, nor has

she been seen since March of 2006. In a long interview

with Rumor Mill News, Jessica’s mother provided a

fairly thorough account of what this young woman was

like, growing up in a modest home in western Canada

… with three sisters.

Her story was the story of a fine young teen-ager, a gal

who got herself a job at fifteen, who worked hard, who

was a blessing to have around the house, and who is

missed by her sisters. Perhaps it is fair to say that

Jessica was not exactly the intellectual type, but she was

the type who could make close friends and keep them,

who was bubbly and kind.

No one has heard from her in almost two full years: not

her mother and step-father, not her father and step-

mother, not her friends; she simply seems to have

vanished from around North Las Vegas, Nevada.

Worse yet, the authorities there seem not to be overly

concerned about her disappearance, as her anxious

mother tells it. Then again, in the Las Vegas and North

Las Vegas area, some two hundred people go missing

almost every week of the year. These cities could easily

keep an entire squad of detectives busy doing nothing

more than investigating these missing person reports

and chasing down leads. Maybe they should. But they

can’t, they don’t.

Jessica and Colleen B in Las Vegas.

Colleen is the only person who ever visited her in Las Vegas and the only person to meet Peter Todd and his twin brother James.

The brothers and Jessica lived together at 1009 Cornerstone Place, in North Las Vegas.

Curiously … James moved out of the house two weeks after Jessica Foster disappeared.

He says he knows nothing about what Peter did for a living, but some folks believe that he knows.

James is a school teacher in North Las Vegas, and one might think that lots of people around there are bothered by his close connection to what is possibly his brother’s suspicious, if not overtly criminal, behaviour.

Rumor Mill News has taken a special interest in this

case, which is unfortunately very similar to other cases

of ‘girls gone missing.’ We wish most fervently that we

had the cash and the brainpower to tackle all of the

cases that are like this one, and we’ve heard a lot about

many of them from our valued readers. We wish we

had our own detective agency and a private air force to

shuttle our investigators around, to help find and

return the many, many young women who’ve gone

missing in these past few years, since Chandra Levy,

and since Natalee Holloway …. But we don’t ….

Still, we have you, our valued readers, and with the

help of some decent luck — perhaps we will be able to

assist in this case, which is entirely as puzzling as

hundreds of other disappearances we’ve heard about in

the past few years.

Jessie Foster and her would-be fiancé, Peter Todd,

together not long before she disappeared (March, 2006)

The link below connects to the jessiefoster.ca missing person site created by her loving parents and step-parents:

Still Missing After Almost Two Years ~ Jessica Foster

Mother of missing Kamloops woman providing DNA for search

JH — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:35:19 +0000

Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun

Published: Tuesday, January 22, 2008

KAMLOOPS – A mother plans to provide a DNA sample to U.S. police to make sure a young women found in Texas in 2006 is not her missing daughter, who disappeared from Las Vegas the same year.

“The height and weight are the same,” Glendene Grant of Kamloops explained Monday about the remains of the young woman discovered on Oct. 29, 2006 in Kilgore, Texas.

The remains are unidentified because the body was severely burned and can only be identified by DNA or dental records, she said.

A picture of Jessie Foster from her Facebook gallery.

Grant’s daughter, Jessie Foster, 23, went missing from Las Vegas on March 28, 2006. The former Boston Pizza waitress in Kamloops had been working for an escort agency, her mother learned after her daughter went missing.

“I don’t believe it’s Jessie,” Grant said of the unsolved Texas case.

She believes her daughter is still alive and is being kept hidden by a human trafficking ring.

Jessie, 21 when she disappeared, twice travelled to the U.S. in 2005 after meeting a man at a party in Alberta who offered to pay for the trips.

Foster later phoned from Las Vegas and said she was moving in with her rich boyfriend, Peter Todd, who is believed to be the last person to see Jessie before she disappeared.

Grant said her former husband, Dwight Foster of Calgary, also plans to give a DNA sample to assist police investigating the Texas case.

Jessie maintained daily contact with friends and family before she disappeared. Since she went missing, she has not used her cell phone, credit cards, or accessed her bank accounts.

The case has been featured on a number of U.S. TV programs, including Geraldo Rivera, the Maury Povich show and Montel Williams.

A $50,000 reward is being offered for information about Foster’s disappearance on a website devoted to Grant’s daughter: www.jessiefoster.ca. A reconstructed composite image of the young woman found in Texas can be found on the website: http://doenetwork.org/hot/hotcase539.html.

JH — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:19:03 +0000

Could Jessie Foster be Jane Doe?

Forensic artist 90% sure it’s her; missing woman’s mom awaits DNA test.

Cheryl Chan, The Province ~ Published: Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The mother of a missing Kamloops woman is clinging to hope offered by a DNA test, despite a forensic artist’s opinion that her daughter’s facial features match the reconstructed image of an unidentified woman found dead in Texas.

“My heart doesn’t accept she’s dead,” said Glendene Grant, 50, from her Kamloops home yesterday. “Moms might not know everything, but if your child is not alive your heart would know.”

Her daughter, 23-year old Jessie Foster, disappeared in March 2006, four months after moving to Las Vegas. Grant found out later that Jessie has been working as a prostitute for an escort service.

A photo of Jessie Foster (left), who disappeared in 2006, is compared side by side with a reconstructed image of an unidentified woman found dead in Texas several months later. An independent forensics expert, a volunteer with Project EDAN, compared the pair’s facial features and is almost certain Jane Doe is Jessie.

The DNA test was requested by the North Las Vegas Police Department after Grant alerted them to the unsolved Texan case, which aired on America’s Most Wanted on Jan. 12.

The remains of the Jane Doe, found in Kilgore, Tex. on Oct. 29, 2006, couldn’t be identified because the body was severely burned. But forensic experts reconstructed her face and aired it on the crime-solving television show.

The mouth-swab DNA test kit from the Center for Human Identification at the University of North Texas should come in the mail any day now, said Grant.

“I need to have proof, and I guess the DNA will prove it one way or the other,” she said.

Her ex-husband and Foster’s dad, Dwight Foster, who lives in Calgary, will also provide a DNA sample.

Todd Matthews, director of U.S.-based Project EDAN, which provides facial reconstructions of unidentified victims for police, said there is a strong likeness between Foster and the reconstructed image.

“I do feel she looks like Jessie,” he said. “There are similarities in the bone structure and how the cheekbones line up.”

His opinion is supported by a Florida-based certified forensic artist who volunteers for EDAN.

The artist did a side-by-side comparison of the two photos and analyzed features including the hairline, the angle of her jaw, and the width of mouth and nostrils and concluded there is a 90-per-cent chance the charred remains of the Texas Jane Doe is Foster.

“It’s not definitive but there is a very good probability,” said Matthews.

Grant admits she may have “mental blocks” when it comes to comparing the photos, but said she sees more differences than similarities.

“This girl has really beautiful straight teeth just like Jessie,” she said.

But Foster, at five foot six, is at least two inches taller than the other girl, said Grant.

The Jane Doe also has a rounder face, with wider cheek bones and more Hispanic features, she added.

Grant believes her daughter is caught up in a human trafficking ring. She has created the website www.jessiefoster.ca and spends hours every day trying to track down leads. A $50,000 reward is being offered for information about Foster’s whereabouts.

“I believe she’s alive,” said the hopeful mom. “That’s why I’m relying on having the DNA prove it one way or the other.”

JESSIE’S TIMELINE

May 2005: Jessie Foster moves to Las Vegas

November 2005: Foster goes back to Kamloops to visit her family for the holidays.

DEC. 25, 2005: Her family drives her to the airport for her 3 p.m. flight back to Las Vegas.

March 28, 2006: Foster was last seen alive in north Las Vegas with her boyfriend Peter Todd. Her credit cards and bank account have not been touched since.

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