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Lisa Marie Young

Nanaimo girl gone.

Victim(s)

Lisa Marie Young (21F)

Perpetrator(s)

Unidentified male suspect known publicly as “Chris”

Case Status

Cold Case

Case Years

June 30, 2002

Location(s)

Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

Lisa Marie Young, a 21-year-old Indigenous woman from Nanaimo, vanished after attending a party with friends in the early hours of a summer night. She was last seen leaving with a man driving a red Jaguar who offered her a ride to get food. Friends later received unsettling text messages from her phone, but she was never heard from again. Despite widespread searches, public appeals, and renewed media attention through podcasts and television, no trace of Lisa has been found. Her disappearance remains one of Vancouver Island’s most haunting cold cases and a painful reminder of Canada’s ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

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