Image Credit: CFJC Today

By Adel Ahmed

Shannon White

Nearly two years after his daughter vanished, Shannon White’s father still holds out hope she can be found

Jun 26, 2023 | 10:28 AM

KAMLOOPS — Six-hundred-two days after she first went missing, Shannon White’s whereabouts still remain in question. White was last seen on the morning of November 1, 2021 leaving for work. As the days continue to pass, the hope still remains high from Shannon’s father Gerald.

“I hope every day that we come to that,” Gerald White told CFJC Today. “She’s a beautiful person. She loved the Jeep community and became a part of that really early on.”

Along with the RCMP’s search for White, the Search, Recovery & Detection K9s of B.C. have also worked countless hours searching for any traces of her.

“It makes you feel good because you know these dogs can cover way more than a person can cover in any given day,” White said. “Just to see what they can do and the skills of the dogs of what they’re trained to do to me is pretty amazing.”

BC Votes

STREAMING: Kamloops All-Candidates Forums

Sep 30, 2024

One Man's Opinion

COLLINS: Someone finally takes the lead in reducing plastics

Sep 29, 2024

Week in Review

Week in Review: Week of Sept. 23

Sep 28, 2024

“We just try to rule out areas,” Randy MacLeod from SRD K9s of B.C. told CFJC Today. “Some of the areas have been searched and gone over a number of times and for various reasons we wanna go over them again and just make sure. We can only go on the information and the hints and the clues and things that we hear heavily relying on the information that most people know through the RCMP. They are, of course, in charge always.”

As the days go by, the pain still lingers through Shannon’s family and friends, including her best friend Angela Hulsman who looks after Shannon’s dog buddy.

“No matter how long it goes without closure without those answers, that pain will always be there not knowing,” Hulsman told CFJC Today. “Closure doesn’t come until you get those answers. There’s good days, there’s bad days. When bad days are there it’s hard then other days you find that you are doing well and you carry on with life and then something reminds you of her and then it brings back those emotions.”

Kamloops RCMP say Shannon White’s disappearance still remains under investigation.