http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2010/11/24/justs-mother-pleased-by-search
"The teenager had been at a bush party near Midland's Sunnyside neighbourhood.
A friend said Jake, who had been drinking, fled into the woods after being chased by a local resident as the party ended.
"When you're drinking you don't always make the best decisions," Webster said.
When friends began calling the house the next day looking for Jake, his mother knew something was wrong. She reported him missing that evening, almost 24 hours after he was last seen.
Police searches in 1998 and 2000 - Webster was involved in both - found nothing. Extensive grid patterns, search helicopters with heat-sensing technology, police divers and cadaver-sniffing dogs have been used in the bog area where Jake was last seen.
A nearby swamp was dragged without discovering any clues.
"It's very perplexing," said Webster, a police officer for more than 30 years. "It bothers me, the fact that we can't get any closure for the family, and ourselves."
It's cases like Jake's and that of Christina Calayca - a 20-year-old woman who went for a jog Aug. 6, 2007, at a provincial park near Thunder Bay and never returned - that keep Webster up at night.
"Sometimes you almost think a spaceship from Mars came down and plucked these people up," Webster said. "Obviously, they are out there and something has happened."
"The teenager had been at a bush party near Midland's Sunnyside neighbourhood.
A friend said Jake, who had been drinking, fled into the woods after being chased by a local resident as the party ended.
"When you're drinking you don't always make the best decisions," Webster said.
When friends began calling the house the next day looking for Jake, his mother knew something was wrong. She reported him missing that evening, almost 24 hours after he was last seen.
Police searches in 1998 and 2000 - Webster was involved in both - found nothing. Extensive grid patterns, search helicopters with heat-sensing technology, police divers and cadaver-sniffing dogs have been used in the bog area where Jake was last seen.
A nearby swamp was dragged without discovering any clues.
"It's very perplexing," said Webster, a police officer for more than 30 years. "It bothers me, the fact that we can't get any closure for the family, and ourselves."
It's cases like Jake's and that of Christina Calayca - a 20-year-old woman who went for a jog Aug. 6, 2007, at a provincial park near Thunder Bay and never returned - that keep Webster up at night.
"Sometimes you almost think a spaceship from Mars came down and plucked these people up," Webster said. "Obviously, they are out there and something has happened."