In this week's edition of "The Missing," we revisit the mysterious disappearance of Jessica Edith Louise Foster, a 21-year-old woman from Canada, who vanished from the streets of Las Vegas, Nevada in March 2006.
"Jessie was born in Calgary, AB, Canada on May 27, 1984. She was the second daughter for Dwight Foster and myself," Jessie's mom, Glendene Grant, said in a recent email. "On June 27, 1987, I moved back to Kamloops, BC, Canada, where I grew up and my parents still lived. My mom & dad bought me the house I am still living in over 20 years later. Jessie and her three sisters all went to the same elementary, junior high and high school that my siblings and I went to. My mom passed away 10 years ago on March 22, 1998, and my dad still lives in the house I grew up in."
According to Glendene, Jessie stayed with her in Kamloops until she reached the age of 16 and moved back to Calgary to live with her father.
"It was very sad for me, but you know, the Internet was something that makes you feel that others are no farther away than the other room," Glendene said. "Jessie was on MSN chats with her sisters and me practically daily. I remember hearing her belching from the other room and in a funny way, feeling nostalgic over it—you can only understand this if you ever heard Jessie's belching ringing throughout the house...it was loud and unbelievable for a beautiful, petite young woman to have that noise come from her. We laughed every time."
Jessie did well in school, and in June 2002 her mother and siblings drove to Calgary for her high school graduation ceremony. After receiving her diploma, Jessie got her own apartment and began working two jobs to support herself. She continued doing that until the spring of 2005, when she moved back to Kamloops to help her mom, who was having some behavioral problems with Jessie's 15-year-old sister.
"About three weeks after getting back to Kamloops, Jessie started getting calls from a man named Donald, someone she knew from when she was a teenager," Glendene said. "During one of her conversations with him, Donald asked Jessie if she wanted to go on a short trip with him to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to visit his mother—we have since found out that his mother lives in Edmonton, AB and not in Florida. She told us that he was paying for the trip and he just wanted someone as company for him on the vacation. We did not feel that this was wrong, but we did ask Jessie if this guy wanted anything in return. She assured us he did not. So she went away, coming home a few days later with pictures of the trip."
