Christina Calayca,20, Ontario Canada park, Aug 6/07

[Missti]

The family is now attempting to raise money to pay for another search of the Ontario Canada park where Christina went missing in August 2007.

The family has written and produced a CD to assist the fundraising.

You can hear the song here at the Find Christina website....

beautiful song

If you have a moment...please visit the site and sign the Guestbook...let the family know we are praying for and thinking of them as the holiday season approaches


prayers that they can bring her home....

[dulcinea]

Thank you for the update. I was just wondering about this young woman. I was hoping there would be more news.

[ruby]

BUMP.

I often think of this girl, and how unfair the world is. Some people get so much exposure for months, and poor Christina was thought about for about a month and then the case was cold. LE needs to find this girl....


http://www.findchristinacalayca.com/

[ruby]

Here is a reminder of her disapperance:

On August 6, 2007, Christina CALAYCA, 20 years of age, was last seen in Rainbow Falls Provincial Park, located 7km west of Schreiber, Ontario, on the coast of Lake Superior.

On Monday August 6, 2007, at approximately 6:30 am, Christina CALAYCA was last seen jogging in Rainbow Falls Provincial Park. The provincial park is located on Highway
17 between Screiber, Ontario and Rossport, Ontario. This section of Highway 17 is the Trans-Canada Highway that connects Thunder Bay, Ontario and Sault St. Marie, Ontario.

Christina CALAYCA was last seen wearing a blue ‘hoodie’ sweatshirt, a maroon/purple striped shirt, black pants, and white running shoes. Although an extensive search for
CALAYCA was conducted, police have been unable to locate her.

Click to view the official OPP missing person flyer.


http://www.findchristinacalayca.com/reward.htm

[omsk99]

Originally posted by ruby [*]BUMP.

I often think of this girl, and how unfair the world is. Some people get so much exposure for months, and poor Christina was thought about for about a month and then the case was cold. LE needs to find this girl....


http://www.findchristinacalayca.com/ [/*]

Thank you for the link, Ruby. So many people do not get national media attention, but are just as important and missed as others

[ruby]

Originally posted by omsk99 [*]

Thank you for the link, Ruby. So many people do not get national media attention, but are just as important and missed as others

[/*]

I am an avid camper at Ontario Provincial parks. I think this summer I may take a trip up to this one and go for a hike and do a search of my own! Maybe the organization will plan something!

[omsk99]

Originally posted by ruby [*]

I am an avid camper at Ontario Provincial parks. I think this summer I may take a trip up to this one and go for a hike and do a search of my own! Maybe the organization will plan something! [/*]

Do you know if you guys have something like TES in Canada?

[ruby]

Originally posted by omsk99 [*]

Do you know if you guys have something like TES in Canada? [/*]

No im not sure of an organization like TES in Canada....to be honest, we rarely hear about missing persons....either a lot don't go missing here, or they're just not publicized! It's kind of bizarre.

[omsk99]

Originally posted by ruby [*]

No im not sure of an organization like TES in Canada....to be honest, we rarely hear about missing persons....either a lot don't go missing here, or they're just not publicized! It's kind of bizarre. [/*]

Hope not too many go missing, like Christina and Cedrika

[ruby]

Originally posted by omsk99 [*]

Hope not too many go missing, like Christina and Cedrika [/*]

Me too!!!

[omsk99]

This is the latest I could find on Christina, and it's dated 11/2007! I hope they are taking it seriously, it's a strange case (that she wasn't an experienced camper but went back alone, that she didn't really camp but suggested they go etc):

http://www.lakesuperiornews.info/Leg...6/Default.aspx

[ruby]

Originally posted by omsk99 [*]This is the latest I could find on Christina, and it's dated 11/2007! I hope they are taking it seriously, it's a strange case (that she wasn't an experienced camper but went back alone, that she didn't really camp but suggested they go etc):

http://www.lakesuperiornews.info/Leg...6/Default.aspx [/*]

The trail ran cold! She was another that disappeared without a trace, and unfortunately in this case, there were no POI's, or suspects! Other than the person who last saw her of course...Someone must have been lurking (much like Hilton) and snatched her up. It's so remote camping on some of the side-roads, you'd never be noticed....I will think twice about venturing in the dark alone this year while camping.

[omsk99]

Originally posted by ruby [*]

The trail ran cold! She was another that disappeared without a trace, and unfortunately in this case, there were no POI's, or suspects! Other than the person who last saw her of course...Someone must have been lurking (much like Hilton) and snatched her up. It's so remote camping on some of the side-roads, you'd never be noticed....I will think twice about venturing in the dark alone this year while camping. [/*]

Be careful even during the day, look what happened to Meredith! Bring some pepper spray with you

[ruby]

Originally posted by omsk99 [*]

Be careful even during the day, look what happened to Meredith! Bring some pepper spray with you [/*]

Yep Im pretty conscientious when it comes to my safety.

[omsk99]

Originally posted by ruby [*]

Yep Im pretty conscientious when it comes to my safety. [/*]

Me too, I carry pepper spray

Christina's website has some updates about a fundraiser for her. The reward is now up to $50,000.

http://www.findchristinacalayca.com/event.htm#gala

This is the latest on the search effort (from her site):

"We are raising money to help fund a search for Christina in the spring. This is where we are now. A search of this magnitude can cost upwards of $100,000."

[ruby]

She literally disappeared without a trace. This is so sad...

http://www.thestar.com/article/435828

Mother still searching for missing daughter

Family raises $48,000 to scour provincial park as OPP resumes hunt abandoned last August

Elizabeth Rutledge clutches a photocopied map of Rainbow Falls Provincial Park, where her daughter Christina Calayca disappeared nearly 10 months ago.

There's her campsite, number 88, and to the northwest, the spot where Christina was last seen by her friend Eddy Migue as they parted ways during a jog on Aug. 6.

"I have a lot of faith up until now that she is alive," says Rutledge, a devout Catholic who immigrated to Canada from the Philippines in 1980. "But there's also a lot of visionaries, and the visionaries say that .." the Toronto woman pauses, bracing herself. "... she's dead and she's murdered, so I don't know where."

On Aug. 5, the 20-year-old daycare worker borrowed Rutledge's car and headed to Thunder Bay on a spontaneous camping trip with her cousin and two friends from a group called Youth for Christ. Her mother never saw her again.

Ontario Provincial Police and trained civilians searched inside and outside the 575-hectare park for 17 days, covering an 8-kilometre swath of land and water with search dogs, aircraft, divers and tracking equipment. They found nothing.

"Anywhere we could get resources we got them," says Denise Wallace, deputy area commander of Lakehead Search & Rescue Unit, which helped with the search. She said the unit came in at the request of the OPP, which oversaw the search.

Over the winter, Christina's family and friends raised $48,000 for a private search of the park that will begin on June 13, the day they say OPP are scheduled to end their second search, which begins this week.

"We're just seeing ours as an extension of their search," says Christina's aunt, Karen Caguicla, who has been co-ordinating fundraising through findchristinacalayca.com.

The OPP will be conducting high-angle searches on cliffs, which Sgt. Shelley Garr says weren't done initially because police were looking for a responsive person.

Rutledge, a single mother, doesn't know if she's ready to face what they might find. "Do I have a choice?"

She believes Christina was abducted, even though the OPP have said they do not suspect foul play.

Doug Teeft, a dog trainer from Dartmouth, N.S., has volunteered to manage the private search with roughly 30 experienced volunteers and up to 11 search dogs, which are trained for wilderness and cadaver searches.

The money raised by Christina's family will go to transportation, insurance, food and equipment costs. A search like this can cost thousands of dollars a day, Teeft says.

He says the park is dangerous, especially for a novice. "She was a recreational camper at best," he says.

While the OPP has co-operated with the private search, Caguicla admitted there were tensions between the family and the OPP last August, when a civilian search effort was put off by the OPP and then suddenly allowed again.

Cloistered in their Toronto homes and eager to make the 15-hour trek to the park, some family members felt forced into a state of limbo.

"When you're angry you want to be angry at someone. But that was more just miscommunication and the emotion of the situation," Caguicla says. "But certainly if at any time we said something negative against anybody we've apologized."

Rutledge remembers her daughter acting slightly out of character the week before she left for Rainbow Falls. She says Christina was particularly affectionate that week. The night before she left for the trip, she repeatedly told her mom she loved her and would miss her.

"I said, `What's this `I love you' all the time?'" Rutledge recalls. She chalked it up to exhaustion, as Christina had been working hard and needed a vacation.

Migue, the last person on record to see Christina, says he wasn't initially worried when Christina didn't return from her jog because her cousin, Faith Castulo, said Christina had wanted time alone.

"I said, 'Oh okay, so she's probably just at the beach, praying or something,' " he says. When she still hadn't returned to the campsite hours later, he started to worry.

Like Rutledge, Migue thinks Christina was abducted. He says the OPP's original search of the park was "really, really good."

Migue says the OPP haven't spoken to him or his friends since they returned to Toronto, two weeks after Christina disappeared.

[ruby]

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_23777.aspx

Calayca is the Toronto woman who mysteriously disappeared in the thick brush of Rainbow Falls Provincial Park, about 200 kilometres east of Thunder Bay. The day care worker told friends she was going for a jog last August 6th, but never returned.

Massive searches were undertaken by both volunteers and police before winter set in, and cops brought out the canine units and helicopters to aid in weeks of searching to no avail.

Authorities finally announced they were giving up after days turned into weeks
Until they know for sure, they're not prepared to give up. They've now hired a private team to help in the latest search. The group is being paid by fundraising efforts of the family, who have already reached $47,000 in donations. The new searchers are going to use cadaver dogs to scour the vast area, with the relatives both hoping they find something - and at the same time, that nothing turns up.

[iluvmua]

Originally posted by omsk99 [*]

Be careful even during the day, look what happened to Meredith! Bring some pepper spray with you [/*]

I agree and Bring a Friend or Two with you as well. Use the Buddy System.

[ruby]

Originally posted by iluvmua [*]

I agree and Bring a Friend or Two with you as well. Use the Buddy System. [/*]

What hits close to home with this is that I camp in Ontario all summer (next week as a matter of fact).....we feel SO safe at these campgrounds. The couple we went camping with last month didn't hear of Christina, and I let them know, as I think every camper should know. */c you walk around alone at night to the washrooms, and drink, and i mean you sleep in a tent! Ne one could get you and leave with you and there would be no trace......

[ruby]

Saw a headline on the news this morning....

The new searches turned up nothing

[omsk99]

Originally posted by ruby [*]

What hits close to home with this is that I camp in Ontario all summer (next week as a matter of fact).....we feel SO safe at these campgrounds. The couple we went camping with last month didn't hear of Christina, and I let them know, as I think every camper should know. */c you walk around alone at night to the washrooms, and drink, and i mean you sleep in a tent! Ne one could get you and leave with you and there would be no trace...... [/*]

Maybe it's still safe there; is it possible someone she was there with was involved?..

[omsk99]

Originally posted by ruby [*]Saw a headline on the news this morning....

The new searches turned up nothing [/*]

[ruby]

Originally posted by omsk99 [*]

Maybe it's still safe there; is it possible someone she was there with was involved?.. [/*]

Anything is possible, but it's been nearly a year, and I imagine ruled out....she went running with a male friend, she said she was tired and was going to head back....she was never seen again! Eep. Im going camping tomorrow - wish me luck!