Vancouver Sun
April 15, 2008
NEWS UPDATE
Texas skeleton not that of missing Kamloops woman, DNA shows
By Neal Hall
KAMLOOPS: A Kamloops mother said Monday that her DNA sample, provided to U.S. police, did not match the DNA of a unidentified woman found dead in Texas in 2006, the same year the woman`s daughter disappeared from Las Vegas.
"It is not Jessie, thank God," Glendene Grant said. "Nothing in my heart has ever told me she is dead."
The mother had sent a DNA swab to be used for comparison to the remains of the young woman discovered in Kilgore, Texas on Oct. 29, 2006. The body was severely burned and can only be identified by DNA or dental records.
Grand said it was good news from the Gregg County Sheriff’s office in Texas. The mother said she still believes her daughter is alive and is being held captive by a human trafficking ring in the U.S.
Grant’s daughter, Jessie Foster, went missing from Las Vegas on March 28, 2006. Then 21, the former Kamloops resident had been working for an escort agency – a fact her mother learned after her daughter had disappeared.
Foster twice travelled to the U.S. in 2005 after meeting a man at a party in Alberta who offered to pay for the trips. She later phoned from Las Vegas and said she was moving in with her rich boyfriend, Peter Todd, who is believed to be the last person to see Foster before she disappeared.
Foster maintained daily contact with her friends and family before she disappeared. She has not used her cellphone, credit cards, or accessed her bank accounts.
A $50,000 reward is being offered for information about Foster’s disappearance on a website devoted to Grant’s daughter: www.jessiefoster.ca.
Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun
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