Indigenous women are posting TikTok videos highlighting unsolved murders and disappearances and asking people to come forward with tips
Indigenous women are taking to TikTok and other social-media platforms to cast the spotlight on unsolved cases of missing and murdered members of their community, and to find new leads in cases they allege have not been properly investigated by the police.
Vanessa Brousseau, whose sister Pamela Holopainen went missing almost 20 years ago from Schumacher, Ont., says she is posting on TikTok to raise awareness of her disappearance, partly because of lack of progress by Timmins police. He said the police would “eagerly welcome any new or clarifying information pertinent to this investigation.”
In another video post she highlights the disappearance of Drew Ballantyne, an Indigenous man who went missing last July from Prince Albert, Sask. Along with numbers to call with tips, she highlights a $5,000 reward and asks for information about the “exact location where Drew’s body is.” Ms. Swinamer, who is part Indigenous, expressed concern that clusters of missing and dead Indigenous women in some areas are not being investigated together. She often asks people with fresh information to call Crime Stoppers.
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