Volunteer group with cadaver dogs reviews a 6-year search for Shelley Desrochers in London, Ont. – London | Globalnews.ca – Henry Club

Searching for a London Ontario woman who went missing Being reviewed by a group of volunteers in 2016 carcass dog To find specific places in the London area.

Shelley Desrochers, 42, was reported missing to police on the afternoon of January 21, 2016 and was last seen on January 2, 2016, in the area of ​​Lorne Avenue and English Street.

Nick Oldrew, founder and founder of Nick Oldrew, said, “The style was known by a lot of people in that whole city center in London, and being an active member in that type of community just didn’t see or hear anything related. Is.” executive director of please bring me home,

Please Bring Me Home is a non-profit group of volunteers that works with families of missing people and law enforcement to gather information to help track down missing people.

The organization was founded in 2018 in Owen Sound, Ont., to help gather new information about cold cases that people no longer talk about and has since grown Canada-wide. This includes retired police officers, private investigators and regular citizens.

Olderoo said that although they are keeping the areas and dates they are exploring private, they found some areas of interest with cadaver dogs after the first day.

“We will work on checking those places further. Nothing immediately – like you didn’t see any evidence, but the dogs were indicating an area which means you have to take a closer look.”

Carcass dogs are dogs that have been specially trained to detect human remains and decomposition.

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The group is specifically looking at three areas of interest.

“These three areas are areas that are three completely different theories, three completely different pools of suspects. So we’re not focusing too much on just one theory. We’re going to have several at the same time to be sure. We’re so focused that we’re not getting tunnel vision,” Oldriv said.

He told 980 CFPL that the next step is to report a report to the police and then please bring me home. The Forensic Anthropology team is to come within the next week to examine the locations more closely.

“All we know at this point for a fact is that we were taken to the area to search for Shelley Desrochers, and the cadaver dogs indicated areas of interest that needed a closer look. We don’t know Whether it had anything to do with Shelley, we don’t even know whether it has anything to do with the current missing person or the deceased, so we get our hopes up,” Oldrew said.

“It could be a major break in the case, or it could be completely nothing but a fractured area.”

A post on the Please Bring Me Home website states that Desrochers had fallen into a difficult time She struggled with substance abuse and PTSD before disappearing further in her life.

“There are many theories about Shelley’s disappearance such as fleeing to start a new life, accidental death, and that she was dishonest because of her “high-risk lifestyle”, but these are still just theories, Read the post.

The website said police recovered Shelley’s purse from a home known for drug-related activity and her health card in the parking lot of a walk-in clinic on Hamilton Road three years after she went missing. Had a meeting.

“It wasn’t out of character for Shelley to be quiet for a couple of weeks where no one listened to her. What’s out of character, you know, her stuff isn’t getting near style. That’s where things went. ” really took a turn where you started to recognize that something was likely to happen to Shelley,” Oldrew said.

At the time his disappearance was reported, Desrochers was described as Caucasian, five-foot-two, 130 pounds, with brown eyes and long brown hair. Police say he had a distinctive style of walking, which was described as “pigeon-toe”.

The Desrochers also had several visible tattoos, including a rose, a heart, and a bluebird.