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Bringing mom home: B.C. family gains closure after boy with GoPro helps RCMP solve case

Janet Farris91Ƶ body was found last month, she went missing in 1992
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The RCMP Underwater Recovery Team removed the vehicle from the lake on Aug. 24. (RCMP photo)

George Farris is looking forward to finally bringing his mother back home to Mill Bay.

The body of his mother Janet was recently found in her car at the bottom of Griffin Lake west of Revelstoke, on Highway 1, after she first went missing without a trace 27 years ago while travelling alone to a family wedding in Alberta.

Farris said his mother91Ƶs remains have been sent to a funeral home in Revelstoke where they will be cremated, and the family intends to inter them next to her husband91Ƶs remains in a church plot in Mill Bay when they are returned.

91ƵIt certainly means that we91Ƶre finally nearing the end of this story,91Ƶ he said.

91ƵWe thought that maybe someday, we would finally find out what happened to my mother, but so much time had gone past that we were beginning to doubt that we ever would.91Ƶ

After almost three decades of heartache and questions about Janet91Ƶs disappearance among the Farris family, she was finally found largely thanks to a 13-year-old boy and his GoPro.

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George Farris said the family had assumed that the most likely scenario was that Janet had a car accident along the route to the wedding, and that she either had a medical emergency, fell asleep at the wheel, or tried to avoid hitting an animal or some other obstruction on the road.

91ƵWe walked great lengths of the highway at the time, along with Search and Rescue volunteers, looking for her, and a RCMP helicopter was in the sky looking as well,91Ƶ he said.

91ƵBut there was a lot of territory to cover and we had no idea where we should be looking. Those lakes along the way can also be very deep, as was the lake they finally found her in.91Ƶ

Farris said the Coroners Service is preparing a report on his mother91Ƶs death, and he has been told that it will take some time to complete.

91ƵMy brother (and only other sibling) lives in Thailand and he91Ƶs also very happy that mom has been found,91Ƶ he said.

91ƵOur thanks to everyone who made that possible.91Ƶ


 


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