CANADA Canada - Roberta Ferguson, 19, Chilliwack, BC, 24 Aug 1988

Roberta Marie Ferguson
Missing since August 24, 1988 from Cultus Lake, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
Classification: Endangered Missing

Vital Statistics
Date Of Birth: November 19, 1968
Age at Time of Disappearance: 19 years old
Height and Weight: 5'5", 111-120 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Native female. Long black/dark brown curly hair; brown/black eyes. Ferguson wears eyeglasses.
Clothing: She was last seen wearing octagon glasses, black stretchy pants/shorts rolled up to her knees, a black/blue tank top, dirty white running shoes and carrying an army green knapsack.
Dentals: All her teeth were present at the time of her disappearance.

Circumstances of Disappearance
Roberta was last seen leaving the Sunnyside Campground in Cultus Lake, British Columbia.
Roberta was camping with a group of her friends. At approximately 20.00 she left the area on foot, and was believed to be heading back to Surrey.

Around this time a witness observed a female matching Roberta's description speaking to a male inside a red sports car at the intersection of Vedder Mountain Road, and Cultus Lake Road. The witness described the man in the car as average height, with blond or light brown hair and a prominent jaw.

http://doenetwork.org/cases/380dfbc.html
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cc-afn/ferguson-roberta-eng.htm


A very detailed and nicely written article:

https://www.beaconreader.com/jane-gerster/what-happened-to-roberta-26-years-later-her-sisters-still-dont-know

"What happened to Roberta? 26 years later, her sisters still don’t know"

In the early 2000s, Carol and another sister provided DNA samples, in case Roberta’s DNA or remains were found on the pig farm of now-convicted serial killer Robert Pickton. Pickton is currently serving a life sentence for the second-degree murder of six women. The remains or DNA of dozens of other women were found on his farm. However, neither Roberta’s remains nor her DNA were found or identified on the Pickton farm.

Carol has her own suspicions. She believes a man who committed suicide in 2005—a suspected serial killer – might be responsible for Roberta’s disappearance. She was, for a while, her own detective: clipping stories out of the newspaper, paying attention to people’s jaw lines, searching and searching the internet. But she has no proof.

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could she be another canadian indigenous woman that has been murdered?

http://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profile/roberta-marie-ferguson

“Terry Arnold had mentioned in the jail that he was last seen with her,” Verl said.

Arnold was a convicted murderer who became the prime suspect in the death of Barbara Stoppel in Winnipeg in 1981.

Around the same time, he was also suspected in an Alberta death the year before Roberta disappeared.

“He went to take them to where [Roberta’s] body was, and it was moved, so they couldn’t,** they couldn’t [continue],” Verl said.

Arnold later committed suicide, denying involvement in the Stoppel killing

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Nov. 13 2021
https://canoe.com/news/world/crime-hunter-double-murder-on-the-fourth-of-julyrguson:
MISSING — ROBERTA FERGUSON

DATE: AUG. 24, 1988

411: On Aug. 24, 1988, Roberta Ferguson, 19, was camping with a group of friends at the SunnySide Campground in Cultus Lake, B.C. She left the area on foot around 8 p.m. and was believed to be heading back to Surrey. According to the RCMP, a witness observed a female matching Roberta’s description speaking to a male inside a red sports car at the intersection of Vedder Mountain Rd. and Cultus Lake Rd. He is described as average height, with blond or light brown hair and a prominent jaw.

Roberta is an Indigenous female, 5-foot-5, 115 pounds, with black eyes and mid-length black hair worn to one side. She has octagon-shaped glasses and was last seen wearing a navy blue tank top over a black top, black stretchy pants rolled up to her knees, dirty white running shoes and carrying an army green knapsack. Foul play is suspected in her disappearance.

Contact: Anyone with information regarding Roberta’s disappearance is asked to call the Chilliwack RCMP Serious Crime Section at 604-792-4611 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222 TIPS (8477).

Bumping for Roberta - it's now been 34 years.

dotr said:

On Aug. 24, 1988, Roberta Ferguson, 19, was camping with a group of friends at the SunnySide Campground in Cultus Lake, B.C. She left the area on foot around 8 p.m. and was believed to be heading back to Surrey.

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Chilliwack BC to Surrey BC is about 80km (approx 50 miles) by and she was on foot! And at 8pm!!

Why was she trying to hitchhike back home? What happened with her group of friends that she didn't want to stay the night camping as planned?

And why were her friends happy to let her go off at 8pm, knowing she'd only have about an hour of daylight left?

All very odd.....

2021 rbbm.
''Cultus Lake is where Roberta had been camping at a three- or four-day end-of-the-year gathering put on by the company she worked for. Her cousin, Robie Brown, was there too. Carol said Roberta had been plagued with rheumatic fever when she was a youngster, which affected her from then on. On August 24, Roberta felt sick and wanted to go home to Surrey, but couldn’t get a ride. “So she went on foot,” Carol said, “and I believe she was headed to Chilliwack to catch a bus to Surrey; she left at 8 p.m. She took off walking down the mountain road.”

''Carol learned that Robie begged Roberta not to go that evening. “She had a boyfriend who lived in Surrey and she called him from a phone booth at Cultus Lake,” Carol said. “He missed the call. And then Roberta journeyed on.”

“Somewhere at that point – in the investigation showed a witness saw a lady walking along the highway who matched the description of Roberta. Some guy in a red sports car stopped and Roberta was talking to him (the witness reported). She looked like she backed away from the vehicle – like she was scared. And that’s the last time anybody ever saw her.”

Carol continued doing research about circumstances that surrounded Roberta’s disappearance. She and her family consulted psychics for answers, and on a few occasions, were directed to specific areas. Carol remembers going to a site in the Chilliwack area. She started walking toward the site noted by a psychic when her brother-in-law stopped her. “He said, ‘I don’t feel right. Don’t go.’ I felt pretty uneasy, like I found the place.” Carol turned around.
“Over the years I went to more psychics,” Carol said, and explained they directed Roberta’s family to an area along the Chilliwack River Road and another time, to an army base, also along the Chilliwack River Road.''

This is all i could grab from the pay-walled site, noting this 1988 incident in LA. fwiw. rbbm.

Driver Chokes Hitchhiker, Leaves Her for Dead - Los Angeles Times​

https://www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-1988-05-...

''A 27-year-old El Cajon woman who was hitchhiking in Alpine was choked and possibly raped Monday by a man who picked her up, Sheriff's Department spokesman ..''

Driver Chokes Hitchhiker, Leaves Her for Dead - Los Angeles Times​

https://www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-1988-05-...


''The woman was picked up by a man in a red sports car at 3:45 p.m. on Tavern Road near Interstate 8, according to Morse.''

I am surprised that in Canada a first world country does not take care of the aboriginals... it is like that road in Canada "the highway of tears" there are always young women murdered, raped, kidnapped etc... I don't know if he is a guy who hates women or just a serial killer who only kills indigenous women... but I think she was murdered near where she was last seen... there is a lot of information about her that's good there's always the possibility that stay alive but it's been many years...
either way
rest in peace