Sun Media
April 28, 2006
Lured into Las Vegas sex trade
by Sarah Kennedy
Mike Kirkman is on the hunt in Sin City for the 21-year-old Calgarian who, after almost a year of daily contact with her family back home, hasn't been heard from in a month.
"Each day that passes, the prognosis is grimmer," said Kirkman, a 25-year PI.
"I'm trying to resolve the case to give the family answers, but we're not getting any co-operation from the person she lived with," he said.
Phone records show that no calls have been made from Jessica's phone in about a month and she hasn't taken any money out of her bank account, said Kirkman.
Foster's parents, Dwight Foster, a Calgary resident, and Glendene Grant, of Kamloops, B.C., called Kirkman to find answers.
Through his investigation, he discovered Foster, formerly a straight-A student who avoided trouble, was sucked into the city's seedy sex trade.
Hospital records show she was badly beaten at one point.
The PI said he's hoping tonight's broadcast on Fox-TV of the case on the Geraldo At Large show will help generate tips. Las Vegas police Det. Dave Molnar said they are still actively investigating the case.
Foster went to the U.S. last year with a friend to do some travelling and eventually ended up in Las Vegas, where she moved in with a wealthy man named Peter Todd. Foster's ex-boyfriend, John Fortuna, said the friend who took her to Vegas and introduced her to Todd was a man named Don whom she met at a Calgary reggae party.
A trust fund called Jessica Foster in Trust has been set up at the CIBC bank in Kamloops to help cover the cost of the private investigator. Anyone with information can call Kirkman at 702-897-6820.
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