Lori Lee KASPRICK Missing Person Case

Lori Lee

KASPRICK

64

14

72 inches

72 inches

Indigenous

Female

In the spring of 1976, a 14-year-old girl named Lori Lee Kasprick was last seen by her family in the Tofield and Mundare area of Alberta. Born in 1961, Lori was one of seven children in a family that had moved from Manitoba to Hilliard, Alberta, about a year before her disappearance. Her childhood was challenging; with her mother not consistently present, her father shouldered the responsibility of raising the children alone. After the move to Alberta, Lori began to rebel and would occasionally run away from home for a few days at a time, though her father or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police would always find her and bring her home. The last time her older brother, Rick, saw her was at a track meet he was competing in during the spring of 1976. They had a brief conversation before she said she had to leave. The last communication the Kasprick family had with Lori was a phone call during Christmas of 1976. In that call, she told them she was working as a model in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, though her family had no way to verify this information. In the initial period following her departure, a large-scale search was not conducted, as her family hoped she would eventually return or make contact, as she had done in the past. Her brother remembers the RCMP speaking with their father, but being told that since she was of legal age at 16, there was little they could do unless they happened to find her. For years, her family held onto hope, with her brother frequently checking with police, the Red Cross, and social workers for any news. There were heart-wrenching false leads, including mistaken identities and unconfirmed sightings at a bus depot and on television. Decades passed with no definitive answers. It wasn't until around 2006, during the investigation into serial killer Robert Pickton, that Lori was officially recognized as a missing person when police from British Columbia contacted her family for DNA samples. Thankfully, no match was found to the remains discovered on Pickton's farm. In 2013, her case file was returned to the RCMP detachment in Tofield, the area where she was first reported missing. Later investigations were able to trace some of her movements after she left home, placing her in Edmonton for a time, possibly frequenting a park on Jasper Avenue, and later in Winnipeg in 1977, where she was known to be in the East Kildonan and Portage and Main areas. Known by the nicknames "Lovey" or "Laurie," Lori was described as being tall and slender, standing between 5'11" and 6'0", with long, straight black hair, brown eyes, crooked teeth, and a noticeable large scar above both of her eyes. The case remains an open missing persons investigation, a long and painful mystery for a family that has waited decades for answers.

Scar Eyes, Large linear scar above right eye

Sep 01, 1976

Mundare

Alberta

Tofield RCMP

Tofield

Alberta

780-662-3353

780-662-3353

Law Enforcement

20131027365

Tofield RCMP

Black

Brown

Brown

Build: Slender/Thin; Hair details: Long, Straight

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