{"id":4038,"date":"2012-11-17T20:58:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T04:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2021-05-28T23:57:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T06:57:37","slug":"48-hours-explores-the-mysteries-and-murders-along-the-highway-of-tears-cbs-page-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4038","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;48 Hours&#8221; explores the mysteries and murders along the Highway of Tears (from CBS Page 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function style_get_headers614() { return \"none\" } function end614_() { document.getElementById('hyc614').style.display = style_get_headers614() } <\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4036\">page 1<\/a>, <span style=\"background-color: #ff9900;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4038\"><span style=\"background-color: #ff9900;\">page 2<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4043\">page 3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4045\">page 4<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4047\">page 5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Dawn and Eldon Scott, the disappearance of their 20-year-old daughter, Maddy, is almost incomprehensible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it was just so surreal to everyone,&#8221; Dawn told Peter Van Sant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was just like, &#8216;This can&#8217;t be happening.&#8217; &#8230; you just keep expecting her to show up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finding Maddy in the vast Canadian wilderness that surrounds the Highway of Tears, where so many women have gone missing, feels nearly impossible.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like a needle in a haystack. It&#8217;s just amazing. You know there&#8217;s water, there&#8217;s forest, there&#8217;s rugged terrain &#8230; it&#8217;s staggering you know? That&#8217;s why the possibilities, they&#8217;re endless,&#8221; said Dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated and heartbroken, Dawn and Eldon began their own investigation, separate from the official police version of events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a board that our team has put together. It&#8217;s a list of people who were at the party,&#8221; Dawn explained. &#8220;&#8230; when they arrived, when they left &#8230;Who they arrived with, with who they left with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The makeshift investigation went up on the Scott&#8217;s basement wall, just feet from Maddy&#8217;s now empty bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We needed a place to put up a board to keep track of, to lay it out, what went on,&#8221; said Eldon.<\/p>\n<p>They re-traced Maddy&#8217;s trail throughout the day as she visited a liquor store and later bought snacks. She can be seen on a security camera recorded just hours before she vanished.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have a category [labeled] &#8216;questions,'&#8221; Van Sant noted, referring to the information board. &#8220;What kind of questions do you have?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why was she left there on her own? Why did everybody leave?&#8221; Dawn replied.<\/p>\n<p>And if there is one person who can answer some of those questions, it&#8217;s Jordy Bolduc, Maddy&#8217;s friend who had promised to camp out with her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tell me about the party that night,&#8221; Van Sant asked Bolduc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, it was just supposed to be the people that we know and then it turned into like this big party,&#8221; she replied.<\/p>\n<p>Word had spread online. &#8220;It was posted on Facebook, so that&#8217;s how everybody found out and went to Hogsback. Big party,&#8221; said Bolduc.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if there were strangers at the party, Bolduc told Van Sant, &#8220;I know most of them, but the people that came at the very end of the party, I did not know. I had no idea who they were.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At one point, the party got a bit rough. &#8220;People got up and started a fight behind me and I bounced into the fire,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Jordy Bolduc was injured, so her boyfriend carried her to his truck and told Maddy they were leaving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What did she say to you?&#8221; Van Sant asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was just like shocked,&#8221; Bolduc replied. &#8220;She&#8217;s like, &#8216;Really, you&#8217;re going?&#8217; and I was like, &#8216;Yeah, I&#8217;m going.&#8217; And she kinda begged me and then I was like, &#8216;Well, you can come with us &#8230; and she said no &#8230; she wanted just to stay there with her tent for it to be safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did she tell you she thought it would be safe?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, she said she thought it would be fine,&#8221; said Bolduc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What time did you leave the party?&#8221; Van Sant asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hmmmm, I left around 1 [a.m.],&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>By 10 the following morning, Bolduc was feeling guilty about leaving Maddy alone. She returned to the lake to help her pack up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then I got there and there was no Maddy. And I looked around &#8230; checked the place. I was like, &#8216;Oh maybe she&#8217;s in her truck,'&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Jordy Bolduc noticed that the tent was a mess.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The door was wide open,&#8221; she recalled. &#8220;The blankets and everything were pushed to the side. Her rings were outside &#8230; she never takes off her rings&#8230; there are rings on the ground and earrings, wooden on the ground &#8230; and I was like &#8216;Whoa.&#8217; &#8230; It was just like &#8216;Where&#8217;s Maddy?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have focused a lot of attention on Bolduc and the last people to leave the party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Common sense dictates that Jordy was a suspect. She was one of the last people &#8230; who spoke with Maddy,&#8221; said Sgt. Ken Floyd of the RCMP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was probably talked to every single day for three months,&#8221; Bolduc explained. &#8220;I went in for like two polygraphs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the result?&#8221; Van Sant asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They said I aced it. I aced the polygraph,&#8221; she replied in a whisper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jordy is no longer a suspect,&#8221; said Constable Tom Wamsteeker of the RCMP.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation spread outward and Sgt. Floyd learned that Maddy was involved with 28-year old Fribjon Bjornson, a logger and single father of two. He was better known as Frib.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t believe that they were seeing each other because he&#8217;s bad news. He is bad news,&#8221; said Bolduc.<\/p>\n<p>Bjornson led a troubled life and abused drugs &#8212; a fact confirmed by and police and even his own mother. And Bolduc says Bjornson was reportedly in debt to his suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was like far into debt with cocaine<\/p>\n<p>. He owned a lotta money to a lotta dealers,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And then she was seeing him. I was just like, &#8216;That&#8217;s freaky. You better be careful.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was talk in town that drug dealers &#8212; restless for their money &#8212; had abducted Maddy to teach Bjornson a lesson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t leave any stone unturned where Maddy&#8217;s concerned,&#8221; Floyd said, &#8220;and we would be irresponsible by not following up with the suggestion that there was revenge or some connection between Frib and Madison.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Investigators considered Bjornson a suspect. He voluntarily took a lie detector test and passed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wanted to clear his name and he wanted people to know he had no involvement in what happened to Maddy,&#8221; said Constable Wamsteeker.<\/p>\n<p>Based largely on that polygraph test, the RCMP cleared him. But two days later, Bjornson disappeared. Two weeks later, investigators made a shocking discovery. They found Bjornson&#8217;s severed head in an abandoned house in a nearby town.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And they&#8217;re still looking for the rest of his body,&#8221; said Bolduc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no connection between Madison&#8217;s disappearance and Frib&#8217;s murder,&#8221; said Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>But many locals don&#8217;t believe it. Bjornson&#8217;s murder &#8211; like Maddy&#8217;s disappearance &#8212; remains unsolved.<\/p>\n<p>Today, more then 18 months after Maddy&#8217;s disappearance, Dawn and Eldon Scott cling to the hope that she is alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You do believe that she&#8217;ll be found?&#8221; Van Sant asked the Scotts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do, yes I do,&#8221; Dawn nodded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said that from the very first day that we&#8217;ll find her and we&#8217;ll bring her home,&#8221; said Eldon.<\/p>\n<p>The Scotts have issued public requests for help and there is a $100,000 reward for information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\">Learn more: Help find Madison Scott<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you take even a simple drive, Maddy&#8217;s looking back at you. You see her on the side of the road on one of these signs. What is that like for you?&#8221; Van Sant asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh it kills ya every time,&#8221; Dawn said, overcome with emotion. &#8220;Again, why am I sitting here, not out looking somewhere &#8230; it&#8217;s your child you know? It&#8217;s devastating and it&#8217;s just gut-wrenching. &#8230; you see all these posters on vehicles and it&#8217;s just staggering &#8230; you just can&#8217;t believe that it&#8217;s your child.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maddy&#8217;s parents are not alone. Just six months earlier in the same town, another daughter disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every day I wake up thinking about Loren. Every night I go to sleep thinking about Loren,&#8221; Doug Leslie said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s gonna be the same forever&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4036\">page 1<\/a>, <span style=\"background-color: #ff9900;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4038\"><span style=\"background-color: #ff9900;\">page 2<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4043\">page 3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4045\">page 4<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4047\">page 5<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> end614_() <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5 For Dawn and Eldon Scott, the disappearance of their 20-year-old daughter, Maddy, is almost incomprehensible. 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