Jessie Foster
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I actually remember the moment very clearly. My son and I had moved into a townhouse on the North Shore and I was unpacking my boxes. I had wrapped things in newspaper and I opened one of the boxes that I had and there was Jesse's face on the newspaper. And I remember looking, I'm like, what the hell? Why is Jesse in the newspaper? And then I saw the headline. It said local Kamloops woman missing in Las Vegas.

And I'm like, what the hell? I remember calling people, finally getting a hold of a couple people and we can't get a hold of Jessie. I think that they took advantage of a young girl who had stars in her eyes. Small town girl from Canada looking to see the world. Yeah, she's prime. Let's go take her. It breaks my heart that we still don't have answers.

21-year-old Jessica Foster, known to those close to her as "Jessie", disappeared from Las Vegas, Nevada in late March 2006. Jessie was far away from her home in Canada, and her family didn't really know the ins and outs of Jessie's daily life in Sin City. They had last seen Jessie in late 2005, when she returned home to visit her loved ones for the holidays.

She didn't seem like herself, but her family couldn't quite pinpoint the changes in her demeanor. Her once vibrant spirit seemed to have faded, raising quiet concerns. In March, Jessie's family lost all communication with her, and it was later learned that her journey to Las Vegas was far darker than anyone had known. Nearly 19 years later, Jessie's family continues to search for the truth behind her disappearance, hoping to uncover what may have happened to their beloved daughter and sister.

I'm Marisa, and from Wondery, this is episode 468 of The Vanished, Jesse Foster's story.

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Jessie Foster was a bright and energetic young woman who captivated people everywhere she went. She wasn't just well-liked by her peers, but her striking appearance and charismatic personality made her unforgettable. We spoke with Jessie's mother, Glendene, who shared fond memories and insights into her daughter's early life, painting a picture of the spirited young woman she once was.

We live in Kamloops, British Columbia. We're the most western province. We moved into the house that she was raised in, and she lived in Calgary for a bit, too. She was quite popular, had lots of friends, and we were right across the street from the elementary school. Jessie always had a parade of kids coming over after school, always had lots of friends around her, popular.

She was tomboyish as a young kid, so much so, you know, with the short hair and her layered T-shirt. One of our neighbors thought that I had three girls and a little boy named Jessie. And when she told me that, I said, no, Jessie's my fourth girl. Well, she's my second girl. But as Jessie started maturing, she just became stunning. Her and her girlfriends were all into clothing and fashion, the hair.

makeup. And Jessie was a pro at all of that. She did everybody's hair. She did everybody's makeup. But she moved to Calgary and lived with her dad and step family for grades 11 and 12, graduated from Calgary. She also has a lot of friends out in Calgary, Alberta. She didn't just live in Calgary for two years. She stayed on afterwards until she was about 19. She graduated at 17. So a couple more years after that,

She had several jobs. She worked as a ticketmaster, she worked at a bootlegger, she worked at a Boston Pizza. But she always went out. We also spoke with Andrea, one of Jessie's childhood friends, who offered her perspective on what it was like growing up with Jessie in Kamloops, British Columbia.

There was a whole crew of us and growing up in the early 90s, it was obviously a different world. There was no internet or anything like that at that time, no cell phones or, well, they were just starting to come around. The neighborhood that we were living in, it was downtown Kamloops on the south side. There was a gang of us. I remember going outside and I had four or five different friends just on my street alone and we would all get on our bikes and we would leave and we would...

Go over to Glendene's across the street every day, pretty much after school. And then on weekends, Jessie and I had actually gotten busted. I was in grade seven. She was in grade six. We would go to this graveyard. We would sit under this tree and just kind of hang out, do girl things and chat about boys and that kind of stuff.

So one day, I don't even remember how we got the cigarettes, but we had some cigarettes and we were experimenting. We wanted to see if we could be cool, I guess, at that time. We thought we got away with it. Well, when I got to school the next day, I got pulled into the principal's office. There was another girl with us and apparently she felt really guilty about it and told her mom what we were doing. So Jesse and I got in trouble.

She was adventurous. She was last minute. Oh, let's go do this. Spontaneous. She was always laughing. She was always smiling. The group of girls that we had together, we had a blast. There was always something going on. It was always us together after school, during summer. We were so close.

When I think back to my childhood, those memories at Glendene's house and going around the neighborhood, those are my core memories. That's what I remember when I think about my childhood.

As Glendene shared, Jessie spent the final years of her high school journey in Calgary, while Andrea remained in Kamloops. Despite the distance, Andrea would often see Jessie and her sister Crystal when they came back for visits. Andrea remembers noticing a subtle shift in her friend after the move to Calgary, though at the time everything seemed to be going well for Jessie.

Thinking about Jessie back in the day, I remember when her personality changed. She started traveling quite young. She was still in high school and she'd moved back to Calgary to live with her dad.

And Crystal and Jesse would go back and forth. It was both of them together, Jesse and Crystal. They were so close. They were just the duo. And when Jesse started traveling, it was almost like she went from this teenage girl to amazing globetrotting woman because she would start getting her hair done and she would do hair extensions and her makeup always looked so good. And I just remember thinking,

wow, I want to do that. I want to be able to travel outside of Canada and do those things and experience that kind of life. I had no idea what was really going on with Jessie. She was responsible in a way that when she was working, she would save her money and she had goals. And like that was her goal was to travel. And she was doing something that I wanted to do that I didn't think I could. So I looked up to her.

It was something that I was so in awe of. Jessie's always been gorgeous. Even when she was younger, I remember thinking how pretty she was. People were just drawn to her. We'd go down to the mall in Kamloops. People would always be looking at us. She was an attention grabber. People just looked at her. She was tall. She was skinny. She was blonde. She was gorgeous. Like it was just at the time, like Pamela Anderson, the tall, blonde, gorgeous women.

Today, social media often paints a picture of perfect lives, with everyone sharing curated glimpses of their worlds. But the reality is there's usually much more beneath the surface. Jessie disappeared before the rise of social media, so her friends and family only knew what she shared during visits and phone calls. While Jessie may have appeared to have everything under control, there was more going on behind the scenes than her loved ones realized at the time.

Glendene believes she can trace the start of the changes in Jesse to an evening when she met someone at a nightclub, a turning point that would eventually reveal a much darker reality.

She dated a young man, John, who was a DJ and he put on hip hop shows around the city, which Jesse went with him a lot. And then at one point she moved from Calgary back to Kamloops and then started getting phone calls from this guy that she had met at the hip hop shows that he would attend that her boyfriend put on. So it wasn't somebody that was an actual friend of hers from school or anything, but it was somebody that she had met.

This person began calling Jessie after a chance meeting at the club where her boyfriend DJed and seemed to offer her the opportunity of a lifetime. For Glendine, something about the situation felt too good to be true.

He invited her on what I always put air quotes around, free trip. And that's how it started. She didn't just get taken straight to Las Vegas. She was first taken to Florida. And much to my surprise, looked like it ended up being a really nice vacation. She came back with pictures of lots of fun stuff. And they did while they were there.

My mom was kind of put at ease. And then a few weeks later, she tells me that he's invited her on another one of these, air quotes, free trips. And just like the first time, I kept telling her, no, there's nothing free. You can't go. There's something that doesn't feel right to me. She's 20 years old by now. She says, Mom, I'm OK. I can do this. And so she did go on the second trip, which was to New York.

They had a hotel in Manhattan. They went to Atlantic City and went to casinos and had what started out to be a few days of fun. What initially seemed like a fun and exciting trip took a dramatic turn on the final evening, catching Jessie completely off guard. What was meant to be an enjoyable experience quickly spiraled into something she hadn't seen coming.

The night before they were supposed to come back, she phoned me and she was in the lobby of a hotel that they were staying at. And she just started telling me what this guy, Don Baz, had done. He had told her that he had gambled away his money. He didn't have money for food and for anything that they would need for on the way home. All they had was their tickets, but they wouldn't be able to eat or anything, which we knew that she had money. So it wasn't that she wasn't going to be able to eat or anything. But he didn't know that she had her own money from gambling.

when she was hit by a car at 17, it was a settlement through the insurance. So she had $20,000 in the bank, but he didn't know this. So he's telling her that because he lost all his money gambling, would she prostitute herself to get some money just to get home? And being insulted, she left the room and went downstairs and phoned me. And literally my heart just, oh, I don't even know if I could breathe for a moment because that's the type of thing that I knew he

These three trips were all about. And she's trying to calm me down by saying, it's okay, mom, it's okay. I'm going to come home tomorrow. And I said, well, just go get yourself a room and then just go straight to the airport when you get up. And she said, no, I'm just going to go back to the room. It's not like he's going to hurt me or anything. Everything will be okay. And I'll see you when I get back.

Back in Canada, Glendene was filled with panic and worry for her daughter's safety, feeling helpless from so far away. The next morning, Jessie called her mother again, sounding somewhat better. But as she spoke, more red flags appeared for Glendene. Jessie's plans had changed, and with that news, Glendene's heart sank once again. Her feeling of powerlessness only deepened.

The next morning when she called me, she's very upbeat, which is normal her. She's telling me that plans have changed and that I'm going to Las Vegas. And she would call me when she got there. And I'm freaking out saying, no, you can't go to Las Vegas. What's going on? Something's happened. Last night he was trying to

get you a process to yourself and today he wants to take you to Las Vegas there's something wrong he's trying to comfort me and I'm like that wasn't working obviously because this was my worst fear well the worst fear was what

what he wanted her to do. And the second one was now going to Las Vegas, which as we all know is called Tin City. But I'm in Canada, so she just got on the plane, flew to Las Vegas. And when she called me when she got there, by this time it was May 13th and it was 2005. She had said that she was going to stay in Las Vegas until her 21st birthday, which is May 27th.

Two weeks away. And so I'm like, obviously trying to convince her just to come home. But she didn't. And her birthday came and went. And then it just went on from there with excuse after excuse while she wasn't coming home right away. She did end up coming home for Christmas in December, but going back. And then that point, three months later, when she went missing in March of 2006.

The last time Jessie's family and friends saw her was during her visit home for Christmas in 2005. Andrea still remembers that visit vividly. While something seemed off about Jessie, she didn't open up to Andrea about what was truly happening in her life back in Las Vegas. Despite their close bond, Jessie kept the details of her struggles to herself, leaving her loved ones unaware and unable to intervene on her behalf.

I remember talking to her about her trips to New York and it was something that I was so in awe of. So the last time that she'd come back to Kamloops, she was in Vegas.

And she come back for that Christmas. I remember there was a group, I'm going to say at least 15 of us. We all went to the Kamloops Wildlife Park. And every year before Christmas, they do something called the Wild Lights. And they decorate the whole park with different animal lights. And it's a show, basically.

we all went. And I remember she looked like a model. She was wearing the top fashions. She had her teeth redone. She looked like a completely different person. And I remember talking to her and she just didn't have that pizzazz behind her eyes anymore. And I remember thinking, what's going on? Something was wrong. She was not happy. She was kind of stoic. And

knowing what I know now, it made sense. And at the time, I think I was 22, 21. And

I wish somebody, and I know Crystal and Glendene were right behind her and nobody could have done anything at the time, but the what if is always there. She definitely didn't let on that any of that was going on. It definitely came off as glamorous. She was meeting all these people that just wanted her there and fascinating.

And from that time in my mind, I thought it was fantastic. It was almost movie star status because every time I would see her, she would just get more and more glamorous. She was becoming this elite person that could be whisked away on a plane at any time. It seemed like glamour.

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During Jessie's visit home for the holidays in 2005, her family noticed her having heated arguments over the phone with someone they were told was her boyfriend, a man named Peter. Then all of a sudden, her visit ended abruptly and Jessie was gone. What they didn't realize at the time was that they would never see her again.

Christmas morning, she woke up and said she needed to be dropped off at the airport. She was going back to Las Vegas today. It really shocked us because she had not told us previously that she was going back on Christmas Day. They had been fighting and screaming and swearing at each other, phone calls that they'd had the whole time they were here, even in Calgary. Her dad would call me and say, those guys just scream and fight and swear at each other.

And they don't have sensible, courteous phone call at all with each other. We know it has to do with the love bombing where something was said. And Christmas morning, Jessie tells us she's leaving that day. And so against our wants and our wishes, we did drive her to the airport. As a matter of fact, her sister Crystal, because those two were close. Let me tell you, they were 15 months apart. They were practically raised like twins. They had all the same friends because they were one grade apart in school.

They were as close as they could get. Had forever after that said, you know, when Jesse looked back at me, at Crystal, Crystal kept saying there was something in her eyes. Mom, she was telling me something with her eyes and I don't know what it is. And we still at this point, there were red flags, but we weren't seeing them. We still weren't thinking anything really bad was happening. And we didn't think that until she went missing.

Peter, the new man in Jessie's life, remains somewhat of a mystery to her loved ones. Although Jessie spoke about him, she always portrayed their relationship in a positive light. Andrea remembers a conversation they had during Jessie's visit home for Christmas. Jessie seemed upbeat when mentioning Peter. However, there was a sense that her loved ones didn't truly know what was going on with the dynamics of their relationship.

Peter, she had spoken about him a couple of times. It wasn't a full conversation. It was, oh yeah, Peter and I went to do this the other day and it was cool kind of thing, right? At that time, I had no idea what to look for. There was a change in her. You could tell that she was on edge. And that last night when we were at the wildlife park, she was like,

She wasn't chatty like she normally would be. She wasn't talking about all of the adventures that she had been having previously. And that was something that she did. When she first started traveling, that's what we would hear about anytime we would see her. Oh, I got to go do, I went parasailing, I did this. She was excited about it. And then it was not, there was no excitement about it. Just a basic conversation. Realizing now she was deflecting. She didn't want to talk about it.

In the days leading up to Jessie's disappearance, she was making plans with her sister, Crystal. Crystal was set to travel to Las Vegas, pick up Jessie, and drive her back to Canada to retrieve her car. Afterward, Jessie would return to Las Vegas with her vehicle. However, just before the trip was due to take place, Glendine said that Jessie mysteriously vanished, leaving her family with no warning or answers.

what she was doing with her sister just before she went missing, making plans for her sister Crystal to go to Las Vegas. Most likely, the reason she did go missing was because they weren't able to stop her sister from coming down from Calgary to go to Las Vegas and then come back. And then the two of them grabbed Jesse's car, which was in our backyard the whole time Jesse was gone, which she had got insurance reactivated on. The card came in the mail.

which I opened after she went missing, and there it was, a month's worth of insurance on her car for April of 2006. They were going to come back together, go to their stepsister's wedding in Calgary, their wedding reception, and lo and behold, right? It never happened. She went missing before Crystal ever went down there. The last time Crystal talked to her was on the 28th of March. When she called her back on the 29th of March, we never heard back. Jessie was never heard from.

When no one could find Jessie, her family was left grappling with where to even begin their search. Glendene had an address Jessie had given her for mailing a package, but they discovered it was only a rented mailbox, not the home where Jessie was actually living.

Jessie had worn braces through high school and still wore a retainer at night. She forgot her retainer here. We had to mail that down to her. She had given me an address to mail it to. And when Jessie went missing, it actually turned out, and this is how we ended up finding out where they lived. She gave us a Dropbox address. It was on Rainbow Boulevard in Las Vegas.

When Jesse went missing and I called to report her missing, they were typing it in and they said, oh, well, that's not an actual home address. That's a mail drop address. We need another address. There's no reason in the world why Jesse would choose to give me a mailing address without saying, oh, and that's just a mailing address, mom. Because we talked to her every day, I didn't hear from her and I didn't go to work for a couple of days. Then I went back to work and I was sitting in the lunchroom next to Terry and I said to him,

you know what, Terry? I think my daughter is missing in Las Vegas. And he looked at me and he goes, and what the hell are you doing here? And I said, I don't know. And I got up and I left. And then I never worked for another three and a half years after that. I just couldn't, everything went to find Jesse. And that was only within a couple of days. And I tried to report him missing. And they said that I couldn't because it wasn't long enough. And then I couldn't because she was living with somebody down there. They had to report her missing.

Despite the fact that the address Glendene had turned out to be a dead end, she still had another lead to follow, Peter's phone number. I did have Peter Todd's phone number. Jesse had given it to me. And I had been phoning him to report Jesse missing, and he didn't. At first, I just phoned him to see if he knew where Jesse was. And then he's trying to tell me that she just up and left one day, took everything with her except her hair dryer and her makeup, which totally could not be a true statement.

So when I called him up and I said, I need your actual address because I'm reporting Jesse missing. So he gave me his address. And when I called back to Las Vegas police to give them that address, now they're telling me, oh, he should have told you that's North Las Vegas, which I had never been told that either. So then I had to go through the whole process again of calling North Las Vegas police and reporting her missing through there. It was his address of a house that he owned in North Las Vegas. It was originally...

owned by him and his wife, which Jesse was told he was estranged from. Peter wasn't returning my calls at first. Finally, one time he returned my call. He said, okay, I called to report her missing, and I talked to the chief of police, and he wants you to call, and he gives me this number. And he said that I'm supposed to be the one to call and report her missing, which I'd already been told that I couldn't be because she lived down there with someone else. So I called this number.

And I kept going to voicemail, voicemail, voicemail, voicemail. And I kept leaving the same message over and over and over and over. And then I just Googled Las Vegas police and I talked to the first woman. She told me that the chief's number that I had been calling was the fire chief and he had absolutely nothing to do with the police at all. So that really stunned me because now not only was he being evasive and not calling me back or giving me any useful information, now

Now he told me, call this chief of police. He's waiting for your phone call. And lied to me and kind of blew my mind. But it went immediately from that to them not allowing us to make the actual report on Jesse until April 9th. So over a week, almost a fortnight had gone by and

One of the reasons why we had to also wait till April 9th was because her dad and stepmom and stepsisters were all in Mexico for the stepsisters wedding, for which when they came back to Calgary and they were having the wedding reception, Crystal and Jesse were planning on being there for that. So they had to wait for them to come back from Mexico because they thought, what if Jesse just last minute went with them and didn't tell anybody, which we all knew didn't happen.

But they insisted that we had to wait. Boyd got home on the 9th. Jesse's not with him. I mean, I can't imagine that poor man. He comes home from the vacation of a lifetime. His stepdaughter got married. It was beautiful, wonderful. Comes home to like probably 10 messages and his wife was never the same ever.

Jesse had told her family that she was in a relationship with this man named Peter. So naturally, Glendene felt it was crucial for the police to speak with him. She believed he might hold key information about her daughter's whereabouts and what had happened leading up to her disappearance.

He had not been very helpful. But then when they finally did take the report, they sent two police officers out there to the home. This was April 9th. Jesse was last heard from March 28th, missing, we believe, since the 29th. And they looked around. They didn't inspect. They just looked around. Everything looked fine. Didn't look like there had been an altercation. There was no blood evidence.

Nothing to get worried about because it was almost two weeks later for crying out loud. Oh, yeah. And he was so helpful and he never gave us any problem or anything. Give me a break. Anyways, and then it just kept going from there. He was saying, oh, him and Jesse were never a couple. Jesse was just a whore. Just got absolutely ridiculous. In the meantime, we have a picture of Jesse and him and she was holding her left hand up.

And there was her princess cut diamond ring that he had given her. But yet they weren't together. They weren't a couple. He didn't love her. She was just a whore. He had even lied about his age to her because she was 20 when she met him. Just turned 21 two weeks later. And she told us that he had told her he was 34. And then when we saw the picture of when she went missing, we're like, oh, this guy looks more like 50. He was actually closer to 45. So there were so many things.

She was just young, like everybody at 21 years old, just wanted to believe the best in everybody, trusted in her feelings, just thought that she could handle herself. When she grew up in Camelot, she would hold her own. If someone messed with one of her friends, she would have something to say about it. And it was like that in Calgary too, which was even a bigger city. So it probably gave her even more confidence if somebody says something, that she would say something back. But she was totally out of her league in Las Vegas.

In their quest for answers, Jesse's family made the decision to hire a private investigator. It was through this that Glendene began to uncover the unsettling truth about her daughter's life in Las Vegas. The dark experiences Jesse had endured, carefully hidden from her family's view until the private investigator began digging.

Soon as Dwight found out about Jessie missing and the report was filed, he hired the private investigator. And he used to be a cop, had a lot of friends, and he found out that Jessie had been arrested. He found out that Jessie had been hospitalized and there was records of a broken jaw. And she had been arrested twice for solicitation of prostitution and

The things that we found out after the fact were just horrific. His wife, which Jesse was told that he was estranged from. Some of the things that we found out after Jesse went missing is that they seemed to work together. That one time she had cornered Jesse in a bathroom and started beating her up. And when Jesse started to get away, Peter blocked the door and wouldn't let her out. And his wife continued to beat Jesse up.

And that's when all of the escorting and everything started. Human trafficking was not something Glendene had ever seriously considered until her own daughter was lured away by a man who made grand promises. After Jesse's disappearance, Glendene delved into the subject of human trafficking and learned the shocking reality of how traffickers ensnare their victims.

Contrary to the common misconception that trafficking involves people being abducted off of the street, she discovered that it's often a slow, methodical, and manipulative process of grooming young people, gradually tightening the trafficker's grip without them even realizing it.

We know it was a classic case of modern day human trafficking. We've had experts in the field tell us this. Everything that happened to her was, you know, I don't even like to use the word textbook because I don't like to think that there would be a textbook, but that's what I've been told. They hooked her up with somebody and she was what is now known to me as love bombing. And love bombing is where they treat a woman so wonderful that they fall in love and

They do everything and then like literally boom, it stops. In Jesse's case, she was wooed by this rich guy and treated her like a queen, did everything for her, took her everywhere, bought her everything, and then broke her jaw with a punch and told her she had to start working at an escort agency just like that.

By the time that he did that, he had known so much about Jessie, her family, and her friends. They get these women to fall in love with you, tell you everything about them. And then when the time comes, you've got all this stuff to hold against you. We'll go get your sister. We'll get your friend. We'll hurt your mother. We know where they are. They're in Calgary. And the girls just do what they're told, protecting their family. I do think she was threatened.

I don't know what he would have had over her at that point, but the one that took her there and then the one that punched her in the jaw and made her work at an escort agency are two different people. The guy from Calgary that she met, he was called a recruiter. So he would get these women and recruit them. What he might have done was apologize, said, oh my God, I can't believe I asked you that. I'm so sorry. That kind of thing. Not so much the threat.

Because once they got to Las Vegas, she was handed over to the pimp. Those are the ones that are violent. Those are the ones that do the forcing and the hurting of the women. Andrea was stunned to discover the harsh realities of what was happening in Jessie's life. How could this have happened to someone like Jessie? It's a question that she continues to struggle with, even to this day, as she tries to make sense of this unimaginable reality.

When I first started finding out what was going on and how Glendene had hired a private investigator and they found out about the prostitution arrest and her being hospitalized, it absolutely blew my mind. And I couldn't believe that somebody that I grew up with could experience that. It wasn't a world that existed where we were. We had such a safe community and we had so many parents around. It didn't matter what house you were at.

All you had to look for was the bikes. It breaks my heart that we still don't have answers.

Looking back on the series of events, it's clear to Glendene what was happening to her daughter in Las Vegas. Though at the time, everything was shrouded in confusion. Glendene had always shared a close relationship with Jesse, and her daughter wasn't the type to lie or hide things from her. In hindsight, there were subtle signs that raised Glendene's concerns along the way. One of the first red flags was a noticeable change in Jesse's phone bills, which were still being sent to Glendene's home in Kamloops.

Her bills all came to my address and that included her cell phone bill. Over time, you know how you get your bills just in a legal size envelope. Well, hers started coming in full page envelopes and 10, 12 pages long. So her phone was used for her work. Whether it didn't even occur to Peter Todd, who was the pimp, that her bills were coming to us or not, definitely Jesse knew that. There

There are things that we have discovered that Jessie did because we may not have known, but she knew what was happening to her and she was leaving a little trail so that if anything did happen, because I never once opened a phone bill or a credit card bill, never once opened them. They were hers. They were getting bigger and bigger. And I was really wondering and I asked her and she always assured me and I have never in Jessie's entire life had

I had a reason to not trust her or believe what she's telling me. Jessie, she never got in trouble. All through school, graduated. She was on honor rolls throughout high school. She was in sports. She was in dance. Common sense says, yeah, why are these phone bills coming in so big? But mother trust is like, well, I don't know. You know, nothing's going on. It was such a confusing time. The more I tried to talk to her, the less she communicated with me on social

a lot of things and we did talk a lot. They knew that the one that she had been using was under Peter's name and so there wasn't a lot of anything we could do about the phone calls that we made from that phone because unless she called our line there would be no record of those numbers on her phone bill so the phone calls that she made with her phone were the ones that we got to see the

So I don't know anything about who she used the other number for. But some people that we did notice towards the end of her last phone bill were some prominent sports figures in California. We did know that Jessie had gone to California not long before she went missing. Those were just a few things that kind of came out. I mean, we talked to the one gentleman. He was on a well-known football team, but he didn't really want to say much. We understood that

If he had have seen Jessie, it would have just been for an actual encounter. And I just wanted to know if he knew anything else about her or if he had noticed anything. And he hadn't. Glendene is convinced that Jessie, aware of the danger she was in, left behind a trail of subtle clues that pointed to those who had trafficked her and may be responsible for her disappearance. These clues, though small and overlooked at the time, now serve as key pieces in the ongoing search for answers.

When she came back, she took her car, which I had mentioned was in our backyard. She drove to Calgary and she put some stuff into her storage unit that she still had out there and she was still paying on because she had just put all of her furniture and stuff in storage when she came to Kamloops. And then she never did go back to get it before she ended up going to Las Vegas and going missing. So at this point, she went to put some stuff in her storage locker. We've since gone through that storage locker.

And we found pictures of these people that are involved. We know that Jessie knew something dangerous was happening and she probably just, you know, she didn't think anything was going to happen to her, but she wanted to make sure that if anything did, we had some kind of clues. There were pictures of Donald Bass. There were pictures of your Todd. There were pictures of the house she was living in. Those were not things that would have been there beforehand.

because Jesse didn't know Peter before she went to Las Vegas. He had more than one car and she did drive one of his cars. We have pictures of her in a car in Las Vegas. And it's really kind of been a mystery picture too because she's got her

Big sunglasses on, and she's looking at her friend who took the picture, and we can see the reflection of the friend in her sunglasses. We just don't know who that is. There was a time that one of her other friends from Calgary, from high school, went down to visit her in Las Vegas. She didn't suspect Jesse was being forced into anything.

But she did witness some abuse, which really worried her. Jesse had actually taken her friend and they'd gone to get a hotel room to get away from him for the night. That's how bad it got, to which he ended up showing up at the hotel because the control that he had over Jesse, even though she left to take her friend out, she still let him know where she was. She was not going to go there, so to speak.

And he showed up and he took them back and nothing else happened. But she did witness that. And the fact that he came back and made them back to the house with him

Glendene has come to terms with the painful truths about what was happening in Jesse's life in the months after she arrived in Las Vegas. She had been led to believe that Peter, the man Jesse had become involved with, was estranged from his wife. However, it soon became clear that his wife likely played a much deeper and more troubling role in the operation than anyone had initially realized.

It's evident that Jessie was withholding a great deal of information from her family. While we may never fully understand why, Glendene believes Jessie was likely ashamed and didn't want to hurt her loved ones. And more than that, she's convinced that Jessie had been threatened and was trying to protect her family from the danger she herself was already facing.

They obviously were not estranged. That was, again, something that part of what they do. His wife, and she's been an escort back when she was probably in her teens, and she's in her 50s now. But her and Peter, they had a son, and Peter did the campaign, and she did the escorting. And their little son, Seth, who was five when Jesse was with Peter, I have a picture of that Jesse took. Just a little five-year-old boy sitting on a knee. They both grinning ear to ear, happy as can be.

I do think she was threatened. Jessie had never used drugs. Like, she'd never smoked weed, smoked cigarettes. She liked cocktails. She liked wine. She liked to go to nightclubs. But she was not into any kind of drug culture or anything. So for me, there's two ways that she might have done that. One is if they introduced it to her unknowingly, like put it into other substance, right? Or maybe she just couldn't handle it.

everything that was going on and finally gave in and said, yeah, give me some of that because I need to numb this pain. So it's really hard to say, but I've seen the two mugshots and one just kind of looks like she's biting her lip and she looks kind of solemn because, you know, she probably feels at that point she's got everyone down. And then the second one, she just kind of looks acceptance, but neither one of them look like she

Her cheeks weren't sunken in. She didn't look like she was addicted to drugs on either of those pictures. So I don't know. I don't think she would. I mean, to be honest, she's still alive after all these years. I would hope that anything that she did was to help her get through.

Hearing this from Glendene, we couldn't help but wonder if there were other women living in Peter's home, seemingly under his control. And if so, could they have witnessed something or have knowledge of what happened to Jessie? Glendene shared that she too had wondered the same thing, and made an effort to reach out to women who may have crossed paths with Jessie during her time in Las Vegas, hoping they could provide crucial insights into her disappearance.

They were not other girls at Peter's house. As a matter of fact, at one point, Peter, who has an identical twin brother, who is a school teacher of all things, he lived with them. And so there was Peter, Jesse, Peter's young son, and Peter's twin brother that lived at that house. But there were no other women at that house. But that's not to say there were no other women under his control. They just weren't out of that house. I'm

I've had one that saw Jesse's face on the front page of one of the newspapers down there, and it just said, where's Jesse? And she didn't know why, but she was drawn to that. She bought the article, read it, and she had been under Peter's control when she was a teenager. Another woman had lived at Peter's house after Jesse went missing, and found out about Jesse and had found a couple things that she thought might have belonged to Jesse, which we

We confirmed likely could have. One was just a doodle book. And Jessie always doodles. One time she went to get a piece of paper out of it just to write something on. And Peter freaked out and said, don't you touch that book. So it was just weird reaction. And there were others in between. There was another woman who was a porn star. She did not do any kind of escorting. And Peter tried to convince her to escort and got a little bit angry at her when she refused. She had to...

leave the house quickly and go get a hotel. I also was calling all the numbers in Jesse's phone bill after she went missing and I started opening them. And one of them was to an escort agency. It was kind of a roundabout, like the number was in there a lot, a lot, a lot. When I phoned, it was just sounded like a little kid answered the phone. Hey, is your mom there? No. I just said, listen, I know that Jesse Foster used to be an escort with you guys. I need to talk to

somebody she's missing and they're like I don't know what you're talking about but I left my number and then I did get a call back from a woman that was a little bit above the young lady that answered the phone the young lady that sounded like 12 year old purposely this woman listened to me and took everything I had to say seriously and then said okay well I'll give this message to my manager and then that woman called me back told her everything that was going on and she said okay I'm

Can I get the woman who owns the company to call you? And she did. And we talked many times. She called Jesse little girl. She absolutely loved Jesse. Said, I've got to tell you right now, Jesse did not belong down here. She was not an escort. She was being forced to. She would come in with bruises. I told her, I'll buy you a plane ticket to fly you back to Canada. And she said, no, I'm too afraid to leave. And she also told me that Jesse was not on drugs. She said one day, Jesse, she just stopped coming in.

She said she knew that Jesse never wanted to be there, but she knew that if she didn't, it would not be a good thing.

They were using Backpage. I'm not 100% sure about ads for Jessie because Jessie, she would go to the high end. When I mentioned Peter's wife, she had a very active Backpage. She did not do it, which at one point was suggested that she might have been picked up by a truck driver. Well, Jessie was never taken to truck stops to work out of, and she never worked off of the street corners either. She was definitely high-end escorts, even.

One of these women mentioned something about a cell phone, a detail that immediately piqued Glendene's interest.

She had, and back then it was just one of those Motorola flip phones. She had that one and I had, I mean, I'll never forget it. She had bought a pink Roxy case for it. I've got pictures of her with it. Another woman had lived at Peter's house after Jesse went missing, found it, didn't have the same pink Roxy cover on it, but it was a Motorola flip phone, not to use as a phone, but he only used to keep phone numbers in.

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We filed a record request with the North Las Vegas Police Department, and much to our surprise, they granted our request. Looking over the files, it's noted that Glendene called the police on April 3rd, and an officer went to Peter's home. Peter told the officer that he hadn't seen Jessie since April 2nd. Remember, Jessie's family last heard from her on March 28th.

Peter said that Jessie moved out and her belongings were gone, though it's unclear if that's what he told the officer or if they actually looked around for themselves. There isn't much detail to the report, though in the section where it lists descriptors, it states only, quote, Foster was a prostitute. Glendene mentioned earlier that they wouldn't take a missing persons report until April 9th. The report written that day mentions that there was a family disturbance at Peter's address on February 28th. Among

a month prior to when Jesse's family last heard from her. It goes on to note that Peter told officers that Jesse was a sex worker and that he showed them her belongings were gone. The report described Peter as very cooperative. An April 10th report said that an investigator spoke to Peter, his wife, and another woman. They all said that they knew Jesse, but didn't know where she was.

The report goes on to say, at this time, I am closing this case. The case can be reopened if further information and workable leads become available.

A report written the next day said, the missing person is an adult and there appears to be no suspicious circumstances. Despite the fact that they had put Jesse's case on the shelf almost immediately, Glendene kept contacting the police department. She was talking to people, writing everything down, and sending it via fax, just hoping investigators would look for her daughter. On April 14th, Glendene sent a fax that said Peter explained to her that he last saw Jesse on April 3rd.

He left home to drop off a prescription for her, as she was scheduled to have her wisdom teeth extracted later that day. When he returned home, Jessie was gone, and she had taken all of her belongings, except her hairdryer, some cosmetics, and a small amount of clothing.

He said the dentist called later in the day because Jesse failed to show up for her scheduled appointment. An April 15th fax from Glendene said, previous to all of this, there were some instances of domestic abuse. She said that this was prior to Jesse and that Jesse told her sister Crystal that these offenses on his record prevented him from entering Canada to meet her family. Glendene also remembered a time when Peter's wife or estranged wife,

reported to police that Jesse had stolen her car because Peter let her drive his Mercedes that was still in both of their names. Jesse called Glendene sobbing while still in handcuffs. They ended up letting her go after speaking to Peter and confirming that he had given Jesse permission to drive the vehicle.

Glendine also noted that there was a time that he had kicked Jesse in the head. Glendine documented her discussions with Peter. She said that on April 9th, he told her that Jesse left him because he couldn't marry her so that she could stay in the U.S. Glendine felt that was odd because Jesse hadn't expressed an interest in getting married. He also told Glendine that Jesse had bumped into another woman's car, either the day prior to her disappearance or the day of.

Peter said the woman knew Jesse and left a threatening message stating, if that was her guy, he would have kicked her ass. Peter told Jesse's father, Dwight, that she had a dentist appointment scheduled for the last day he saw her, though he was unable to remember the name of the dentist.

Peter claimed the dentist gave Jessie a prescription to pick up prior to the appointment, which she said she did pick up. Glendene stated that she first asked Peter to report Jessie missing, as she was in another country. Peter said that he was on his way there, and that the officer didn't want to talk to her. He hung up but later called Glendene back. This time, he said that she was supposed to call and report Jessie missing herself.

glendene sent another fax on april sixteenth she had spoken to peter once again and he claimed he was worrying so much so that he locked himself in his place alone all week

Glendene was attempting to confirm Peter's story about the dentist appointment and prescription. This time, he said he dropped it off late Sunday night or early Monday. In previous conversations, he claimed to have dropped it off on Monday, which would have been before her appointment, and that Jesse planned to pick it up so that she could take the medication before the procedure. He said that Jesse picked up the medication between 7 and 8 a.m. on Monday morning, and by noon, she was gone, along with nearly all of her belongings.

The story about the dentist and pharmacy lacked specific details that could be nailed down. There were no reports in the files we received indicating that investigators located a dentist or pharmacy that Jesse had been at or had an appointment with on the day Peter said he last saw her. Glendene said she inquired about Peter's neighbors. Had they seen Jesse leave? Peter said that they wouldn't have been home, and they were all old, though he didn't ask any neighbors if they had witnessed Jesse pack up her possessions and leave.

In the files, there's a March 2007 report that documents the search of a Honda Ridgeline. They tested for bodily fluids, but the results were negative. The reports include an email from an individual who said that Peter's wife confided in her that there was something that always bothered her. One night, she received a call from Peter, and he told her to meet him off of Sunset Road.

He was driving a black Mercedes-Benz that was covered in dirt. He had been in the desert and had a gun that belonged to a friend. She said that he was frantic and had a large amount of cash on him. She asked Peter what he was doing, and he said he was going to end his life, but realized his life insurance policy wouldn't take care of his wife and son.

It was her belief that he had roughly $60,000 in cash and handed over about $27,000 to $28,000 of that to her. What bothered Peter's wife about that was she thought the money could have been Jesse's.

Shortly after that time, she said that Peter got rid of his Mercedes somewhere in California. This tipster said she asked Peter's wife what she thought he was doing in the desert and if he was capable of killing someone. His wife said that she wasn't certain, but from her experience, he liked to choke women out and was a very violent person. She went on to say that Peter was continuously concerned with what was going on and acting paranoid. And beyond this information, there wasn't much more in Jesse's file.

We also contacted the North Las Vegas Police Department to request an interview, but unfortunately, they never responded. When Jessie vanished, she was just 21 years old, at a time when her friends were all navigating their own paths in life, each moving through their journey at their own pace. Andrea, like many others, didn't immediately learn that her friend had disappeared. And when the news finally reached her, it came as a complete shock.

shortly after she had gone missing. I actually remember the moment very clearly. My son and I had moved and I was unpacking my boxes. I had wrapped things in newspaper and I opened one of the boxes that I had and there was Jesse's face on the newspaper in the clipping. And I remember looking, I'm like, what the hell? Why is Jesse in the newspaper? And then I saw the headline. It said local Kamloops woman missing in Las Vegas. And

And I'm like, what the hell? I remember calling people. Crystal finally returned my call, said, yeah, I was supposed to go to Vegas. We can't get ahold of Jesse. And then that's when I started seeing news interviews and stuff like that with Glendine and

Over the next couple of years, I remember I was at my girlfriend's house having coffee in the morning and this Montel Williams commercial came on and it was about missing women. And Glendene, they're like, we're going to interview Glendene Grant of Kamloops BC, whose daughter went missing in Vegas. There's Jessie's face on Montel Williams. I watched the interview with Glendene on there and I was just like...

This is real. Even though I already, at that point, I think it had been probably about a year or two that Jessie had been missing. But I think the reality of it, because I wasn't engulfed in it. I was her friend, but I wasn't in Kamloops, not being around it all the time and seeing it. But once Facebook came to be, all of a sudden I had all this information that I could read about it and what was happening. And the reality of it started setting in then.

For nearly 19 years, Glendene has tirelessly sought answers, often grappling with the many unsettling possibilities, none of them good. The uncertainty continues to haunt Glendene as she searches for the truth.

Was she still being trafficked out of Las Vegas? Was she sold somewhere else? From that moment on, we've never had an inclination as to where she could have been. I thought all along that she'd just been moved somewhere else. She was sold to someone else. We had people tell us that just after Jesse went missing, Peter Todd suddenly had come into a lot of cocaine and he was stealing cocaine.

And mainly it was because a lot of the women who normally have maybe escorted for him had heard about Jesse and now nobody wanted to do anything for him. Who knows? I mean, I don't know. We did have one psychic tell us that Jesse was traded for a lot of cocaine from a cartel. It seems far-fetched, except that we had already been told that Peter Todd was now selling a lot of cocaine. So it's really weird.

Glendene has dedicated her life to spreading the word about Jessie. She was determined to ensure that everyone in Las Vegas would be on the lookout. However, she knew deep down that her daughter could be anywhere, and her search extended far beyond the city's limits as she clung to hope for answers.

People in Las Vegas know Jessie's case. She may be a BC girl, she may be a Canadian, but she's a missing girl from Las Vegas. She's known by a lot of people. I've got over 4,000, almost 5,000 people on my Facebook and other platforms that all know about Jessie's case and support us. People who lived down there. I have this one woman who heard about Jessie's case. She was a former PI. She got her real estate license

And she called me up and she said, I would like to help any way I can. I do have the experience as a PI, but I don't have a license, but I see that you have a PI. And if he's willing, I will, as a real estate agent, take him over to the now up for sale house that Jesse had been living in as a possible buyer. They went over there and they went through the house. They'd

They didn't see anything either, but of course they didn't have equipment that would help them find anything that was hidden. We did see that there were three gowns hanging there that had been Jesse's. Peter had told us that he had picked up some stuff for her from the dry cleaner, so we just assumed that that was it. But he had moved out, took everything out, left those three gowns just hanging on a hook.

Years after Jesse's disappearance, Glendene was shocked to receive a call from an investigator who seemed genuinely interested in her daughter's case. This was unexpected and renewed her hope, offering a glimmer of possibility that someone might finally be able to help uncover the truth.

I did get a phone call a few years ago from a detective in North Las Vegas. And he had told me that he was just a young officer when Jesse went missing. He remembers her case. Well, he was a rookie, like a really young cop. And that him and Jesse were born in the same year. And there was just this thing that always made him think about her case and wonder how it is. When he became a detective, he asked if he could take over Jesse's case. And

And he did. And there's been a few, I don't know if you want to call them tips because they turned out to be absolutely false. But there's been a few things he's investigated for us. And he's been wonderful. He's been the only North Las Vegas police officer that actually seemed to care, that actually literally even gave two hoots about Jesse. The original one said that she'd come down from Canada and decided to prostitute herself. And I guess this is what happens when you do that. And I'm like, really?

Well, considering that her jaw was broken, I don't know how much twist she had in the matter. And this was after we knew about the trafficking and everything. When I talked to him about human trafficking and prostitution and that Jesse was being forced, I had to bring it to his attention. And he said, no, no, that doesn't happen in Las Vegas. That only happens in Las Vegas on the strip. And I couldn't believe it because, as we all know, it happens everywhere. Don't be telling me that it doesn't happen in Las Vegas. This is the most ridiculous thing I've

I've quoted him many times, and I know that he's eaten those words because she has been written about in books and talked about in documentaries. Her case is a well-known human trafficking case, and he could have helped us from the beginning, and he chose not to.

While many theories about what happened to Jessie suggest she was harmed by Peter or trafficked further, there remains a possibility that she crossed paths with someone dangerous through her work. In an unexpected turn of events, following the 2023 arrest of Rex Heuermann, the suspected Long Island serial killer, investigators began to look into other locations across the country that Heuermann had visited.

One of those places was Las Vegas, where he had two timeshares, beginning in 2004. This new lead has raised fresh questions about the potential connection between Heuermann and Jesse's disappearance, along with other missing and murdered women in the area.

Jesse's case was slightly connected to a person named Neil Falls and another person named Rex Heuermann, who were both suspected of killing escorts. Rex Heuermann is the most recent one of the Long Island serial killer. And it's because he lived in Las Vegas at the same time that Jesse and three other women went missing. The other three were found deceased and dismembered.

Their cases were similar to the women's in Long Island. And Neil Falls, he was shot and killed by an escort that he was trying to kill. And she got a hold of his gun. And then when they got a hold of his keys and opened his trunk, he had a murder kit in his trunk. And then when they investigated him, he was also connected to Las Vegas at that same time frame where Jess

Jesse and the other four women went missing. I have no idea about Neil Falls because when that happened, we still didn't have an actual detective on Jesse's case anymore. And anyone that did work on her case didn't really delve too deeply. But with the Rex Heuermann one, because we had a detective, I emailed him and I asked if he'd heard about the connection. I was hearing from media before I even...

even heard from him. So I said, I'm hearing from media that Rex Hewman was in Las Vegas around Desi's disappearance time. And he goes, I've already heard that. And I emailed the Long Island police. They told me that they can't really give too much information out at this time because it was still such an active investigation. Since then, nothing else that I've heard of. So I don't really know

Glendene has found a sense of purpose in focusing her efforts on educating others about missing persons and human trafficking. While her own pain still lingers, she's channeled her grief into advocacy, determined to raise awareness and prevent others from experiencing the same devastating loss.

They're not savvy enough yet at that tender age to know that that's his job. You have no hope in outsmarting him, outmaneuvering him, because this is what he does. They have a playbook, they have a plan, and you're just caught off guard all of a sudden. I used to give talks in high schools, and I used to do a lot of collaboration with Crimestoppers here in Kamloops, and I traveled all over Canada.

giving talks about missing people, human trafficking. I'm always out there spreading the word on Jessie. And any opportunities that I got, no matter where it was, through high schools, letting them know that Jessie first met the people that initially recruited her when she was just out of high school, when she was still in her teens. So giving these talks to the high school kids and to organizations, to me, that helped me with my coping mechanism. First of all, that was big. If I had one mother...

or one friend or one woman come up to me and say, Jesse's story made them make a different decision or something that could have happened didn't. Hallelujah. I just know that no matter what has happened to Jesse, her disappearance has helped other people understand. I can't ask for more than that. I mean, I could ask for her to be found and come home, but realistically speaking, that will only happen if it happens. But helping other people happens because you make it happen.

Many of the families we work with are burdened by an overwhelming amount of tragedy, often rooted in the unresolved grief of their loved one's disappearance. The long-term stress takes a heavy toll, and Glendene shared that this has deeply affected her own health. And tragically, Jessie's father Dwight has passed away, and their other daughter Crystal, who was especially close to Jessie and was supposed to visit her around the time of her disappearance, has also passed, only compounding the family's heartbreak.

My oldest daughter, Crystal, passed away in 2021. After their dad, Dwight, passed away in 2020. So this disappearance has just wreaked havoc on so many people. Crystal and Dwight's death and my heart attack are repercussions of all the stress that we all went through with Jessie being missing. Because I don't drink, I don't do drugs, I don't smoke, I'm not overweight. And yet I had a massive heart attack and a triple bypass surgery at age 66 years old. So

Andrea shared that both she and Jesse's sister Crystal struggled with addiction. Deep down, Andrea believes that Jesse's disappearance was a central factor in Crystal's struggles, casting a long shadow over her life and fueling much of her pain.

I know Crystal had experienced some quite traumatic events, but when Jesse went missing, Crystal, we'd kind of had a little bit of a falling out. I suffered from addiction. I'm in recovery. Actually, I'm coming up on five years now. But actually, I'm in recovery.

But at that time when Crystal and I had had a falling out, I was in full active addiction and Crystal was actually in recovery. I was using. She just took one look at me and lost it on me. And I understand now why. I should have respected her sobriety at the time and always. But that caused quite a falling out with us. It wasn't until a couple of years later when I had left Kamloops, we'd gotten a hold of each other again and

started talking again. She was struggling at the time, but from what I recall, she was still doing good, but she was kind of starting to fall through the cracks again. Jessie was a huge part of that. She definitely, I don't want to speculate on her perspective, but it destroyed her. It

It broke her. She didn't know where her best friend was. They were always talking together and her father had passed away. I remember getting the phone call from our friend Jamie that Crystal had passed away and I instantly went into our messages. I realized that she had phoned me, but I didn't answer. And I, you know, again, with the what if and all that kind of stuff, Crystal just wanted to be loved.

She had the biggest heart. Jesse's disappearance affected Crystal and there was no getting over it for Crystal. There would never be answers until they found her.

As the years passed with no new leads in Jesse's case, and the family enduring one tragedy after another, Jesse's car remained parked in Glendene's yard, a constant painful reminder of the missing piece of their family. Glendene admitted that she couldn't bring herself to officially declare her daughter deceased. But after the loss of Jesse's father and sister, she finds herself slowly moving toward that heartbreaking reality, each step a reminder of the unrelenting grief she's carried.

I couldn't even bring myself to do anything with it. The ground grew around it. When we sold that house and moved, we had to have it pulled away. I felt like, how dare I? You know what? When you do things like that, you're saying they're not coming back. We didn't feel that way. We still were nowhere near even suggesting that she might be passed away. I mean, after her dad passed, he had always thought that she was already passed away. I would talk to Crystal about, for him, you

Maybe I will have her declared deceased. And then I couldn't even do that. And then Crystal passed away. And now I actually think if she's in heaven, she's with her dad and her sister. And that is comforting, whether I want her alive or not. If she's not alive, she's with her dad and her sister. Dwight and I had two kids together. And if he was up there with both of them, I would be okay with that.

In the end, Andrea believes that the key to solving the mystery of Jesse's disappearance lies with Peter and his wife. She's convinced that they hold the answers, and uncovering the truth about their involvement is essential to understanding what may have happened to Jesse.

It's a really difficult question to answer because there's one of two things that happened. One, she is no longer with us and we are looking for remains. Or two, she was put into some kind of sex thing. Neither option is good. We don't know what happened that night she went missing. I do think she was the subject of foul play. I think Peter Todd...

was done with her and he just needed to get rid of her because she was going to ripple make ripples for him maybe she was sick of dealing with it and she stood up for herself and he thought nope can't have this I think Peter Todd definitely had something to do with it from what I've read about his ex-wife and just the lifestyle that they led I think he knows more than what he was saying

The footprint that stopped drastically right then and there. There's no explanation other than I don't want to say it's cut and dry, but I think it is what it is. I think that they took advantage of a young girl who had stars in her eyes. Small town girl from Canada looking to see the world. Yeah, she's prime. Let's go take her where our brains aren't even fully formed at that time.

Previously, over the last 18 years, at the beginning, there was always the hope that she was going to come back to us. There are other things that could have happened. But me today, I live 125 kilometers from Dawson Creek in B.C. And right now there is 11 unsolved murders. There's Darylyn Supernaut and her cousin went missing recently and both of their bodies were found.

We've got Cole that's still missing. There's Denny Poole who's still missing and that's next door. You just did a podcast episode on Cole. Seeing his mom's posts about him and the days counted. I've seen it before. I watched Glendine go through that. I hate it. I really do. I still can't freaking believe that this has happened and we don't have any answers. There's something there. Somebody needs to speak up. Somebody sees something and it triggers something in their brain and I just really, really hope

hope one day that somebody has enough empathy to give a mother some answers, to give her sister some answers. She's got nieces and nephews she's never met. It doesn't seem right. Those kids deserve to have their Auntie Jessie. I love how much the girls keep her memory alive. Her nieces and nephews know her. They are not without knowledge of their Auntie Jessie.

I haven't seen police reports or any of that kind of stuff from the Vegas PD, but they don't care. They didn't care. It's Vegas. How many people go missing in Vegas in a day? Jesse was just another person in a file on their desk. This private investigator that Glendene hired discovered way more than the police officers did. And it's just that's disappointing. They actually stopped and

answering Glendene's phone calls. It's a mother missing her child. If she's going to phone you, it's because she wants to know where her child is. Come on. The way the Vegas PD have treated Jesse's case from what I've heard, and call me biased, I also want answers. There is some serious to lack in there. And when it comes to missing people or anything that has to do with, let's say, the lower class of society,

Jesse's not just one single girl. Jesse was a prime target. And I hate to say that. And I'm sorry, Glendine, for saying that. But she was young. She was adventurous. She wanted to experience those things. Jesse doesn't deserve to be gone. None of them do. Unfortunately, it's a part of our realities.

She's not just some frickin' hooker on the streets of Vegas. No, she is a young woman who was manipulated and basically put in a position where if she didn't do this, well, look what happened. So what happened to Jessie Foster after her family last heard from her on March 28th, 2006? The man her loved ones believed to be her boyfriend, Peter, claimed that he last saw her in early April, when she was due to pick up a prescription and visit the dentist.

He said he returned home later that day, only to find that Jesse had left, taking nearly all of her belongings with her. What's troubling, however, is that after reviewing the records from the investigation into Jesse's disappearance, it seems that little was done to find answers. The authorities spoke to Peter, his wife, and another woman, labeling Peter as cooperative. But beyond that, the investigation seemed to stall. Jesse was an adult and had the right to leave her life behind,

But the circumstances surrounding her disappearance suggest something far more sinister. Jesse had been lured into a world of escort work in Las Vegas. And there's strong evidence that she was trafficked by dangerous individuals. She was a young woman with so much potential, but she became trapped in something far beyond her control. Many believe that Peter knows more than he's admitted. There are suspicions that he may have harmed Jesse or trafficked her further, possibly moving her out of the area.

These possibilities are deeply unsettling. Was she the victim of foul play? Or could she still be alive, caught in the horrors of human trafficking? Then, last year, a chilling new theory emerged after the arrest of the suspected Long Island serial killer, who had ties to Las Vegas around the time that Jesse vanished. This development raises even more terrifying questions. Through it all, Glendene continues to fight for answers and spread awareness. She's never going to give up.

If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Jesse Foster, please contact the North Las Vegas Police Department at 702-633-9111 or the Crime Stoppers tip line at 702-385-5555.

I went to New York in 2018 and I remember thinking, I wonder if Jessie was here. There's actually a picture of Jessie standing in Times Square and I went and stood in that spot and I remember thinking that Jessie was standing here. It was surreal. The picture of her, she's on the left side of the street facing Times Square. It's weird that you can go stand in the exact same place that somebody else was but not know where they are.

Somebody just either does not want to be brought into the spotlight or they don't want to get involved. It's harder and harder to get people just to confront what they've done and be honest. I don't know how anybody could go 18 years of knowing something and whether Jesse's alive or not.

But he still knows and going 18 years plus and not giving that information up. We knew for a long time where he was but we've lost track. You know there's been so many other things that I've had to do then wonder about him. He'll get his one day and if it's not here on earth it will be later and that I do know. And I just hope and pray that justice will come.

That's not something that we're going to give up on. I will continue to share. I will continue to ask questions and I will continue to throw Peter Todd's name out there until something is found out. Or when was the last time he was interviewed? Do we have anybody working on Jesse's case right now? Is it sitting on a shelf collecting dust? Let us know because if that's something you guys don't want to work on, then we can.

That brings us to the end of episode 468. I'd like to thank Glendine and Andrea for speaking with us. If you have a missing loved one that you'd like to have featured on the show, there's the case submission form at thevanishedpodcast.com. If you'd like to join in on the discussion, there's a page and discussion group on Facebook. You can also find us on Instagram at

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