Recent Event Highlights: RCMP search property as part of investigation, Search for missing couple not over: RCMP, Vigil held for missing couple, Campground searched, Vader arrested, home searched, SUV found, and 7 more...
Created by aterry on Jul 19, 2010
Last updated: 09/11/10 at 01:47 PM
RCMP search a rural property southwest of Nojack, Alberta in connection with the seniors' disappearance. Investigators received a tip that led them to the property, but wouldn't reveal what exactly they have learned or what they hope to find.
Also today, special cash reward being offered by Crime Stoppers to solve the case was increased to reached $60,000.
http://www.globalnews.ca/RCMP+searching+rural+property+McCanns/3508213/story.html
Travis Edward Vader, questioned as a 'person of interest' in the disappearance, has been named a suspect in the case, RCMP confirm.
http://www.globalnews.ca/Mounties+name+suspect+disappearance+Alberta+seniors/3464581/story.html
RCMP officers reassure the public their search for Lyle and Marie McCann is not over.
Rumours that police have stopped searching for the McCanns are false, RCMP spokeswoman Doris Stapleton says.
“To be really clear, the forensic search of the arrest site and at the Nojack campground have been completed,” Ms. Stapleton said.
http://www.globalnews.ca/world/Search+missing+couple+over+RCMP+says/3324006/story.html
Hundreds of friends, family and strangers gathered at St. Albert Place on Saturday evening for a "vigil of hope" for Lyle and Marie McCann, the St. Albert seniors missing for three weeks.
Before the vigil, the couple's son Bret McCann spoke of refusing to let go of the hope that his parents would be found.
http://www.globalnews.ca/story.html?id=3321052
RCMP search an Alberta campground just a few kilometres from where Travis Vader — a “person of interest”in the disappearance of an elderly couple — had been arrested a few days earlier.
Residents of MacKay, about 150 kilometres west of Edmonton, say police blocked off the road to the nearby Nojack campground and spent most of the day searching the area.
http://www.globalnews.ca/world/story.html?id=3310359
RCMP search an Alberta campground just a few kilometres from where Travis Vader — a “person of interest”in the disappearance of an elderly couple — had been arrested a few days earlier.
Residents of MacKay, about 150 kilometres west of Edmonton, say police blocked off the road to the nearby Nojack campground and spent most of the day searching the area.
http://www.globalnews.ca/world/story.html?id=3310359
The second man arrested with Travis Vader -- the "person of interest" in the case of a missing Alberta couple -- is questioned and released without being charged, RCMP say.
The man, who has not been named, was arrested when RCMP converged on a home in MacKay, Alta.
http://www.globalnews.ca/story.html?id=3303883
Vader is arrested without incident at a rural residence near Niton Junction, some 70 kilometres west of Edmonton, on outstanding warrants. He is taken into custody by the Edmonton RCMP emergency response team.
Police search the home.
http://news.globaltv.com/Police+search+MacKay+home+where+Vader+found/3295824/story.html
Police find the couple's SUV, but refuse to say where. Hours later, they confirm the vehicle was found near Carrot Creek, Alta., about 30 km east of Edson. Police would not release details of the vehicle's condition. Police say they are seeking “person of interest” Travis Edward Vader, 38.
http://news.globaltv.com/story.html?id=3288081
Prince George RCMP are forced to issue a release asking for Evert Bjorklund to return to the detachment in Prince George, B.C., to provide more details.
Evert Bjorklund and his daughter Diana tell the RCMP that they saw the McCann’s light green 2006 Hyundai Tucson on July 8.
http://news.globaltv.com/story.html?id=3286953
A log house, four outbuildings, two tractors, a truck, and a pile of wood are set on fire on a property just north of Niton Junction, Alta., where Vader would later be arrested. The fires are suspicious, and the RCMP begins investigating whether they are related to the case of the McCanns.
The McCanns' family members set up a Facebook page begging for any information leading to their parents' safe return.
The McCanns do not arrive to meet their daughter in Abbotsford, B.C., and are reported missing.
The McCann’s motor home is found burning at a campground about 60 kilometres southwest of MacKay, Alta, where Travis Edward Vader graduated from high school and lived much of his adult life.
http://news.globaltv.com/story.html?id=3266653
Lyle McCann, 78, and his wife, Marie, 77, are seen filling up their motor home at a gas station in St. Albert, Alberta. The seniors are on their way to British Columbia. Their credit cards are used for the last time.
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