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By Dylana Kneeshaw

MISSING: SHANNON WHITE

Four years after her disappearance, teams still combing through vast search area for Shannon White

Nov 4, 2025 | 4:46 PM

KAMLOOPS — During this week four years ago, Kamloops became the main location of interest in a search for Shannon White.

“When (Kamloops) Search and Rescue stopped, we started searching on our own and we’ve been out pretty well steady for Shannon and Ryan Shtuka. You know, they’re both in roughly the same area, but we just keep searching,” explains Mike Ritcey, the president of the Search, Recovery and Detection K9s of B.C.

White left for work the morning of November 1, 2021, but she never arrived — and it’s been a needle in a haystack trying to find her since.

“You know, if anybody has any information, talk to the police about it, but we’d just like to find the right area to search in,” says Ritcey.

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Her disappearance had been deemed suspicious and the RCMP Serious Crimes Unit quickly got involved. Investigators found her Jeep had been seen on surveillance video leaving city limits from multiple directions that day, which Ritcey says created a broad area they need to be looking in.

“Going west of town and north of town, but it’s a huge area. It can be thousands of square miles,” he describes. “We just have to pick an area and go a piece at a time, clear an area and move on to another area”

Four years later, White’s sudden disappearance is still an active and open police investigation. Her off-roading friends have kept up the search, while collecting donations to keep human remains detection dogs actively looking for White — and any other missing people.

“I think it brings a lot of comfort to them, knowing that there are people who are still looking and won’t give up,” notes Ritcey.

A day after she was last seen and reported missing to police, White’s Jeep was found parked along the 300-block of Nicola Street in downtown Kamloops. Police believe White was the victim of foul play. But four years into the investigation, there’s still no sign of White, no explanation as to how her vehicle wound up downtown or who was behind the wheel.

“We are continuing to actively investigate her disappearance,” says Cpl. Dana Napier with the Kamloops RCMP. “Today, we are re-appealing to the public that if they have any information or know of her whereabouts, we would ask them to call into the Kamloops RCMP or into Crime Stoppers and cite file number 2021-38386.”