The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) is renewing its plea for information about a missing 24-year-old woman who may have travelled to Vancouver Island before disappearing.
According to a recent media release, Natanis Merasty was reported missing by her family to Saskatchewan RCMP on May 9th.
EPS assumed control of the investigation on May 22nd and have since been working with police agencies in other provinces to determine her whereabouts.
Merasty’s last confirmed sighting was on May 5th, when she was seen on CCTV at the Continental Inn in Edmonton around 1:22 a.m., driving away in her 2007 black Hyundai Tucson. Later that morning, she was recorded on camera at a 7-Eleven located at 156 Street and 107 Avenue.
Investigators have pieced together a timeline of the vehicle’s movements, noting that it travelled through multiple locations in Alberta and British Columbia—including a ferry trip to Nanaimo on May 7th—raising the possibility that Merasty was on Vancouver Island at some point during her disappearance.
Her vehicle eventually returned to Alberta and was last seen west of Lloydminster on May 12th. Days later, on May 15th, the SUV was located abandoned and repainted at the James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan.
Merasty is described as having an average build, with long brown hair and brown eyes. At the time she was last seen, she was wearing black pants and a black and grey long-sleeved shirt.
Her family says it is extremely out of character for her to be out of contact for this long, and police are deeply concerned for her safety.
Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call the Edmonton Police Service at 780-423-4567 or #377 from a mobile device. Anonymous tips can also be submitted through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online.
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