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a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] in 2016 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in
Manitoba Saskatchewan British Columbia decided it was time to revisit a cold Cold Case the 1986 homicide that rattled
the town of Thompson and haunted its inhabitants ever since the Specter of the Dead 15 year old girl
cast a Paul over the whole place and there was nothing new so the RCMP took on a novel approach
on October 16 2016 30 years after the murder the RCMP MB Twitter feed halted its
usual updates and instead tweeted the following devastating messages hello I am Carrie Ann Brown
I was raped beaten and murdered 30 years ago today can you help find my killer what you did to me that night destroyed
my family and friends I didn't do anything wrong I was a happy 15 year old girl their silence
but someone knows come forward stop being cowards how were you able to keep what you did
to me hidden I want to talk about the day I was killed I want people to know what happened to
me I want the Killer caught my house at six Red River Road in Thompson was simple but I loved it my
dad and brother Trevor still live there today I loved hockey and the Penguins were my
favorite team Mario Lemieux was so great how could you not love them to this day
my friends remember my sense of humor I had a great laugh and nothing was funnier than playing
pranks truth is I was a very normal 15 year old girl athletic well liked cheerful and
compassionate I didn't have any enemies everyone has their quirks Bridges were mine
I don't know why but I hated them and was always nervous crossing over one okay for people that don't know my story
My Last Day alive was 30 years ago today it was 1986. and it was a Thursday I woke up with Coco the bear I had so
many plush animals but Coco was the one I couldn't go without school that day was okay
I had so many friends that going to school at Rd Parker Collegiate was actually fun
I loved gym class I was only five foot one inch 110 pounds but fast and feisty I was a great Runner and could easily
beat my brothers first two classes that day were back-to-back typing then math and
English I couldn't wait for Jim at the end of that day FYI in 1986 I was still learning to type on a giant
typewriter not fun I could not wait for lunch it was a normal day I had a doctor's
appointment that afternoon but otherwise everything else was completely ordinary
I had been having headaches just wasn't feeling well so I left school for a bit for a doctor's appointment I went home
after school didn't have a job but my parents gave me ten dollars a week for allowance
I don't know what it was that afternoon being 15 I guess but I was a little upset and a bit
anxious after my appointment we ate supper together as a family that night my last night alive I'm so
thankful for that I know they are too we ate roast beef that night but my favorite meal was pepperoni and mushroom
pizza from Santa Maria I remember my brothers fighting over the donuts for dessert and being worried I
wouldn't get one there was a party that night and my mom and dad said I could stay at my
girlfriend's house for a sleepover before the party my girlfriend came over and we walked to Thompson Billiards
I never walked anywhere in town alone it was a warm night with no snow but I wore the new dark jacket my family
gave me for my birthday anyway we left Thompson Billiards and walked over to 41 Cooper Road which wasn't very
far we only stayed on Cooper Road for a few minutes then we walked to the party at
my friend's house at 11 trout Avenue I know what you're thinking yes some of us were drinking
my friend's parents were home though and they were supervising it was so much fun I had really great
friends and we were having an awesome time laughing listening to music and hanging
out then a friend showed up we didn't get along anymore it sucked I had been having such a good time too we chatted
for a while it was formal and polite it didn't help my night was ruined I wanted to leave so
my girlfriend and I decided to go for a walk and talk we got to the back door when my friend
decided she better go downstairs to tell our friends where we were going I stayed standing there near the back
door to wait for her my friend's mom was the only other person around I went outside to wait
that's when it happened I was strong and put up a fight but it wasn't enough this is the
unsolved case of Carrie Brown and this is true crime garage [Music] foreign 1986 Carrie Ann Brown was just as you
heard a normal 15 year old girl living in the great white North Carrie was born in Burke's Falls Ontario on August 19
1971 in 86 she lived in her family's house on Red River Drive in the town of Thompson Carrie's parents are Jim and
Ann Brown and she has two older brothers Trevor and her half-brother Ian from his
mother's first marriage Jim had a job at the inco mine and worked at Thompson General Hospital as a medical
transcriptionist the town of Thompson is a mining town named after the family that owned the mine the town itself had
only been around since 1956 and although it had just about 12 000 residents it was known as The Hub of the north
because it was the only place in the area with Access to Health Care Facilities shopping and other services
tens of thousands of Outsiders came to the town yearly it was a tight-knit community with residents who looked out
for each other it was also a very outdoorsy area with hunters and campers and fishermen comprising much of much of
the population those who didn't work in the mine of course for teenagers it was kind of a boring town and in typical
teen fashion they had to come up with inventive ways to find excitement having parties drinking a little bit and dating
as we learned in the trailer Carrie was a fun-loving girl that was athletic she loved gym class captain and she loved
ice hockey she was just at that age where she was between being a girl and being a woman she still loved her
stuffed bear cocoa but she also had recently split up with a boyfriend more on that in a minute Carrie's parents had
some troubles and that Carrie's mom and brother Trevor both suffered from retinitis Pigmentosa and by the time our
story takes place Anne was blind Carrie herself had been having headaches but it does not seem that she suffered
from the same Affliction let's get to the night in question so this is going to be October 16th captain and this is a
Thursday now as we heard in today's trailer Carrie had a normal school day minus the doctor's appointment that
would have been outside of the normal day for her she got out of school about 3 30 Carrie and her dad picked up a
couple of donuts as they were out buying her a winter coat they had dinner together as a family and then there was
a kerfuffle over the donuts and Carrie was a little upset but then she rallied and she was going to hang out with
friends anyway so she kind of got over it there was a party at Carrie's friend's house Doug crocus so Doug is a
classmate a schoolmate of carries he is one year older than her and her two best
friends Rhonda and Nicole will be joining her at this teen age Gathering before the party Rhonda who lived nearby
came over to Carrie's house to pick her up Carrie was wearing a pink outfit with
her favorite Pittsburgh Penguins jacket around 7 PM that night they wandered to the Billiards place then another
friend's house and then to Doug's Doug lives at 11 trout Avenue so from my understanding here Captain Doug's house
is quite a ways away from Carrie's house from my understanding they walked there
in a rather large group of friends so they're walking there so three of them and then more kids meet up with them
along the way now we have this big pack of teenagers all making their way to Doug's place right they get there around
9 30 maybe 10 at the latest now Nicole lived on the other side of town from Kerry and Rhonda but just two blocks
away from Doug's house the neighborhood is the Westwood neighborhood and it is described as a middle class residential
area this Gathering was later described by Doug on the somebody knows something podcast which covered this case
extensively in season five it was a group of about 25 kids who knew each other pretty well ranging in age from 15
to 18. some were legal to drink and some weren't like Carrie and her girlfriends
they were in the younger batch of kids but there was some beer there Doug's mom was home and was on board with all of
this and according to Doug although kids were coming and going a bit throughout the evening it was not like a raging
party this was kind of a kind of a low-key thing and he says that he knew every single person that came to his
house that night there were no strangers there were no out-of-towners there were
no creeps that has been reported to been at this party well this this happens all
the time in high school somebody tells you hey old Doug is having a party whether or not you're invited you
probably know somebody that's invited you don't feel intimidated to just walk into a party you're probably going to
know somebody 99 of the people there are going to be from your high school well and when you're growing up in an area
that doesn't have a whole lot to do or a whole lot of excitement for teenagers and frankly there's many places like
that as we said they kind of have to create their own excitement and as you said it's not so much hey I was invited
to this party but if you tag along with somebody that was you're in the door yeah or in my high school sometimes
people just pass out flyers to somebody's house we gotta hey did you get the flyer you're invited sometimes
that can go terribly wrong or sometimes terribly from my understanding Captain it's this is a very typical party now we
said that this was a Thursday but we should point out that there was no school scheduled for that Friday so it
makes sense that Doug is having this party he says it's just a group of high school friends all hanging out in Doug's
basement they're playing music they're talking they're eating snacks all pretty much normal stuff and there's parents
there his mother is there she doesn't have everybody under a microscope but according to her and according to Doug
later they both said that she was somewhat supervising or The Chaperone of this party if you will yeah the the
visual I get is Eric forman's basement right and everybody's having a party in Eric Foreman's basement the way that
this evening is going about everybody's just I mean everybody's having a great time that's what's always been reported
everybody was having a great time until Carrie her ex-boyfriend remember she just broke up a few days prior his name
is Chuck and he shows up to the party and he's not alone he's actually with a previous girlfriend of his somebody that
he dated before Carrie Carrie knew that Chuck had gotten back with his ex-girlfriend so there was nothing like
confrontational about Chuck being there and Carrie being there but Carrie did say that she felt
awkward and uncomfortable this is what she expressed to her friends and it was probably just because the breakup was
pretty recent well way to go butt face Chuck showing up with your ex-girlfriend ruining the party now we read the tweet
from the RCMP in today's trailer that said Carrie became upset because she didn't want to be there when her
ex-boyfriend was there and we get it everyone's been in that position no matter what age you are it's it can be
awkward yeah it's you know Carrie's sitting there having a good time at the party her boyfriend her ex-boyfriend
walks in with his ex-girlfriend and the first thing you're thinking is awkward and this is you know 15 year old kids
and this all remember how important all of this stuff seemed when we were 15 and
then you grow up and realize it's not important at all but Carrie decides hey maybe it's time
to leave and they have a curfew anyway she's going to stay the night at her friend's house but her friend has a
curfew and Carrie has a curfew that even when staying at a friend's house that she needs to observe
she's only 15. now it doesn't sound like Carrie would be the type to leave a party on her own you heard in the tweets
saying she had never walked anywhere alone at night but remember Nicole her friend lived near Doug's house
and Carrie was planning on sleeping over at Nicole's now looking at Google Maps for context shows us that Doug didn't
live in the middle of nowhere in fact we would describe his neighborhood as thickly settled residential area with
blocks and blocks of houses surrounding it which makes sense on why these kids gathered in a group and walked to his
house correct and this is not a situation where we have this girl who has a little
to drink and then she stumbles out the door into the frozen tundra never to be seen again this is an area that would be
full of cars and houses you know but all but although by this point we're talking
about we're getting close to to the midnight hour so maybe maybe a little sleepy at this point uh the the town
anyway well we have to remember the date because I think we're so used to just things being open 24 7. and this is in
the 80s but back in the 90s things would close down about nine o'clock ten o'clock Carrie and her friend Nicole end
up going upstairs remember they're getting ready to leave and presumably at this point they're talking over what
their options are and they don't want to do this in front of the other high schoolers Carrie is voting that they
leave so the two decide that they're going to leave they walk out of Doug's house when Nicole realizes that she had
forgotten her purse so they turned around and walked back to his house Carrie is waiting upstairs she did not
want to go back down into the basement where all the kids were right the tweets indicate that Doug's mom
was there as well like we said earlier now Nicole ran into her ex so a different kid on the stairs they have a
conversation sounds like he wanted to get back together or something like that but it's a lengthy conversation that
Nicole would later say lasted for about 10 minutes or so Nicole could see Carrie
at the top of the steps during portions of this conversation but at some point her friend Carrie stepped away so she
could no longer see her and she's continuing on this conversation yeah but we've all been there you know he you're
at that party you it's time to go your friend runs into her ex they're having a conversation so you keep making your
presence known like hey it's time to leave let's let's get going and then eventually eventually Carrie
stops making our presence known to Nicole yeah maybe she wants to give a little privacy for their conversation we
don't know it's hard to say but while she's upstairs Doug The Host he recalls seeing Carrie upstairs and he
tells her hey don't you probably shouldn't leave on your own it's late you should wait for Nicole Carrie then
asked Doug to go get Nicole so he went back down to the basement Nicole then goes upstairs a few minutes
we're talking just a few minutes later and by this point it had started to snow outside
and Carrie was gone Nicole could see footprints in the snow leaving Doug's house
and the footprints they stopped at the end of the driveway at the road and there of course were tire tracks on the
road well this is difficult too because you have these kids going in and out of this house but mainly using the basement
but I remember being at parties like this when I was in high school and there would be a little bit of a crowd outside
maybe coming into the party or leaving the party or trying to make plans on what is
next right the other thing I remember there would usually be some kind of pointless silly
argument some drama and like always one person storms off into the night on foot alone yeah
weirdly that happened that almost every party I went to so Nicole she can't find her friend she decides
all right I'm gonna go outside start walking and I should encounter Carrie on my way back to my house which does not
happen so then she well let me say the obvious though too about these parties is Carrie and her friends yes they're 15
but but Doug is older so a lot of these people go into this party are not showing up on foot they're driving their
vehicles Nicole turns around and she doubles back to Doug's a couple of times she's not just walking this route
repeatedly but she's also scouring the area essentially looking for her friend and she finds nothing on several trips
at some point she gets worried and frightened for her friend she starts crying and she misses her curfew so she
doesn't make it home until about an hour late which would be 1am and her mom would later say that she saw her
daughter Nicole throwing up and I don't know if she drank too much or if this was a combination of drinking and and
being upset about her friend um so it sounds like her and her mom have a little bit of a argument about
Nicole drinking at the party but from all the reports I've seen this is where things start getting really weird
because we're only talking about a few minutes that Carrie would have been outside by
herself somehow she vanishes during that time and Nicole makes it back to her house she's late as we said
because she spent some time looking for her friend the reports state that Nicole's mom was not aware that Carrie
was going to be sleeping over that night so Nicole of course she feels incredibly
guilty about all of this now in fact she says that she went through years and years and years of therapy to try to
cope with this in some form or fashion but right she stops looking for Carrie that night and then she goes to bed and
sleeps in the next day she likely just like any other kid would she likely went to bed thinking that Carrie either just
decided to go home or get a ride home somehow or that Carrie would turn up well if we're going to question
Nicole's the amount of alcohol that Nicole might have uh consumed we have to question the same thing when it comes to
Carrie so we know that Carrie was upstairs then she leaves or we're assuming she leaves the party and then
we have this track of footprints that lead to the end of the driveway and now we got some tire marks this is not a
good situation well and we also have to point out something here and keep this in mind as we're going through the
events here you know one of the benefits of constant connectivity that we currently have today that we forget
about that when especially when we're complaining about cell phones and cell phone usage by younger people these days
but today Kerry's friends would be able to see on Snap map you know exactly where their friend was
and maybe she could have been found or even saved that night but we're talking about 1986 so that was not an option
yeah or Carrie if she felt like hey it's time to go Nicole let's take care let's say Carrie
thought that Nicole was being a little rude by talking to her ex a little bit too long maybe there'd be some text
messages sent to her friend hey it's time to go or hey I'm going to just take off
walking and and I'll eventually meet up with you but obviously they didn't have that technology to stay in contact and
then navam disappears [Music] [Music] all right we are back to the windows to the walls cheers everybody cheers to you
Colonel cheers to everybody out there in listener land in the morning on that Friday there was
no school that's I mean praise the Lord that's the best Thursday you can have when you're a kid no school on Friday
Carrie's brother Trevor had been drinking at his buddy Jerry's house the night before
and he recalls that on Friday morning Carrie's friends started calling looking for her so at first Carrie's family
Trevor her brother and in the family the Brown family they don't really think anything of this right I mean Carrie's a
typical 15 year old teenager but they get worried when Nicole when her friend Nicole calls because that's completely
different remember she was supposed to be staying there the night before Nicole calls the house this is sometime after
lunch on that Friday Nicole had to tell them that she lost Carrie the night before lost track of her
she was devastated when they in return tell her Carrie never came home last night this would be very difficult and
like you said I mean Nicole Kerry's friend has struggled with this heck there's friends of mine that I've gotten
arguments with and just never got over the argument never became close friends again
but this is a whole another level you were with your friend you went to the party with your friend you feel
somehow responsible for her leaving by herself and then like you said she went back and
forth between her house and Doug's house the party looking for her friend and then at some
point has to just come back home and go I I give up and when she doesn't show up
that night and then I'm sure Nicole called some other people first hey did you have you
seen Carrie it'd be devastating to have to call Carrie's family Carrie's brother
Trevor discussed this very situation with the Thompson Citizen newspaper and said when Nicole called looking for
Carrie they meaning his family realize no one knew where Carrie was she made some phone calls and then she called us
back and said Carrie's lost we don't know where Carrie is it was at that point that my parents called the cops
let them know what was going on they came over got a picture of Carrie they created a flyer rather quickly
and he says within a couple of hours they had a bunch of Flyers made and then they all started Distributing them
across the town of Thompson he says I was at home answering the phone talking to people that were
calling once people had started learning that she was missing and that we were looking for her people wanted to help
look for Carrie and so they did lots of people were out looking for her all over
the city but no one found her that day and he goes on to say that we that Kerry's
family the Brown family they didn't sleep that night well you remember these parties when you were a kid and it's
like maybe at maximum capacity there was 30 kids there but throughout the night there could have been 60 70 different
kids that show up like we said they show up in little Groves little packs and then leave at different times
so there's a lot of people that you can question that were there that night there at the
time that Carrie was there and it's it's also hard to remember when people left you so if somebody says
hey I left at 10 o'clock most of the time you just have to believe them because you're not going to remember
every single detail of every single individual that was there at that party well and when the family becomes alarmed
that they don't know where Carrie is this is one thing that I I find to be interesting here they called one of
their phone calls amongst dozens of trying to track down their daughter was to the local taxi company this to see if
Carrie had gotten into a car to you know take a ride to to try to attempt to get
home or go elsewhere this makes sense to do as a parent especially after you're being told the
story from Nicole that hey you know it looked like Carrie decided to split and got tired of waiting around
for me and so this call makes sense however none of the calls that the taxi company
had received from the night before none of them matched up with with where Kerry
would have been uh yeah picking a location of correct location of Doug's party so this didn't seem like uh a
great option that what is interesting though Captain there was a call to another area of town and just to
double check everything Carrie's Father Jim actually drove to the the pickup and
drop-off location of that call and said that he didn't recognize anything one and two didn't have any reason to
connect it back to his daughter well again this is a this is a difficult situation because it's not just the
people that were at the party it's people that drove to the party heck I remember being at some of these
parties in high school where guys would drive up and maybe you'd go out to your buddy's truck and you'd talk for a
little bit and then they would leave they wouldn't even come into the party so there's other individuals
she's 15. uh 17 year old that drives by and goes she's leaving by herself hey Carrie do you need a ride yeah that'd be
awesome maybe she decides oh somebody's going to give me a ride I'll go back to my house
instead of going to Nicole's house but we don't know if she got into a vehicle and if she did who was the driver or who
else was in the vehicle well and so to break things down a little bit here we have the party that took place on
Thursday Carrie's Father Jim reported her missing around 4 P.M central time on Friday October 17th now we're going to
fast forward to the following day on Saturday this is Saturday afternoon around 2 10 p.m we have a woman named
Donna kovic and her friend Joanne they're out on their usual weekend horseback ride
they were making their way along a muddy Road through a wooded area just north of
the Burntwood River their horses at some point started to act skittish and then suddenly the two
women saw a body on the ground this is from a CBC news article by Bryce Hoy it says quote they saw Kerry's body
lying on a jacket with one hand up and one down she was dressed in a pink and black leopard print outfit and white
socks kovic said you could see the face was smashed and beaten she could also tell that the arm
that was up in the air was broken Okay so I want to take a second here to comment
on some things that people familiar with the case are probably asking themselves
right now or thinking and trying to recall there were a lot of rumors and even some
reports that state that Kerry was found nude um that according to the women that
found her Donna and Joanne is not the case it's just simply a rumor it's not true number one in number two
they go on to publicly describe the outfit that she was found in police have been a little
tight-lipped about some of the details of this case but again we get a description of the clothing that they
saw on Carrie that day when they found her I'm assuming that that description is the same clothes that she went to the
party in I don't have any reason to to assume otherwise right Carrie had been beaten to death about the face and head
with branches broken off nearby trees police found the branches with blood on them at the scene
so on Saturday around 3 you know they make this terrible Discovery a little after 2 P.M
the Brown family they'll be notified right around three o'clock uh but this is not by the police it's actually by
two teenagers who knew Trevor they told the family that the cops had found a body out by the horse stables
and at the same time you know this wasn't police dropping the ball here they just hadn't got to the
brown Fam Family yet because as we will see as these two teenagers are telling Trevor
what the rumor is or what they had seen or heard the phone rings and this is the police
asking Jim and his family to come to the hospital because they're going to have to ID a body do you know how far these
horse stables are from Doug's house where the party took place Thursday night yeah from my understanding it's
like a two to three minute walk yeah so that makes it even more difficult because we have these footprints that
Nicole claims she saw that lead to basically tire tracks did somebody pick carry up in a vehicle or
did she walk to this location or was she led to this location well and staying on the the body Discovery here
too this is this is one of those we get this in every story where there's just one of these weird
kind of random heartbreaking moments here and this is when so Trevor remember he knows the two
teenagers that showed up at his house and that are telling him and his family hey the police found a body down by the
horse stables so his dad and mom are going to go to the hospital because they got a call from the police to come and
identify a body well Trevor does not want to wait he he can't he can't help himself he
wants to find his sister he goes with the two teenagers back to the location where they heard a body was found
and the police of course they're still there and they've got everything roped off and they would not let Trevor
into the site obviously so Trevor is talking with one of the ladies that found Kerry's body who was still there
and he's asking her questions he's he said was the person was the body that you found
wearing a penguin's jacket remember she we know that she had a favorite hockey Pittsburgh Penguins jacket that she was
wearing that night when she left the house and arrived at the party Donna one of the women who was on
Horseback that found the body says no there was no penguin's jacket and then Trevor her brother asked Donna was the
the body you found was was the female blonde Donna told Trevor no and so Trevor Carrie's brother goes oh great
thank God it's not her it's not my sister but unfortunately he's wrong because a
couple of things a couple of the details that we get from the women that found the body
Carrie was lying on top of the Penguin's jacket so they did not see the jacket it
was there it was found at the scene but they did not witness the jacket and then
you heard the injuries that we described very briefly there carries blonde hair no longer appeared to be blonde it
appeared to be brownish black because it was saturated with blood so he Trevor goes from this moment of heart just pure
heartbreak to relief of thank God it's not my sister then to a short time later finding out that no it was it was yours
and then you got to think too these these two ladies on Horseback once you see the body how how much are you
looking at that body for detail at that point you go it is a body we need to call law enforcement it's not on them to
have every single detail about this victim no and they're they're answering these questions the best that they can
uh given what they they saw in the brief period of time that they saw it now you
know the family her family went to the hospital as we said her father Jim is the only one that went to the morgue but
later he said he knew even before he went to the hospital that it would be Carrie that that they had found
when Jim viewed the body he said that Kerry had blood coming out of her ears and autopsy would determine
that she had multiple fractures to her skull jaw neck and chest media described her death as due to
massive head injury caused by vicious powerful blows indicative of rage and loss of control
and she had been raped the time of death was believed to be between midnight and
1am this estimate this time of death estimate though comes from the police I've not been able to view the report to
confirm that that's what it says in the the report but this is an item that they
have released to the public if you will the police say that the time of death was between midnight and 1am the with
the amount of vicious blows this is a horrible scene it almost to me leans towards somebody in a complete and
utter rage or possibly multiple attackers yes and like we said in all likelihood
it looks like the murder weapon was found at the scene and it's there's several murder weapons in these branches
that they found that still had blood on them right at the hospital of course the RCMP
Personnel assured the family that they were going to do everything possible to find out who did this to
their daughter to their sister now Trevor keep in mind he's only 16 years old at
the time he's Carrie's older brother just one year older than than Carrie but still to this day Trevor has been the
driving force behind the decades-long push to keep his sister's case in the media
he says that the murder literally destroyed his family he says that his father became withdrawn
and dysfunctional and his mother was depressed until the very end she she eventually died of
cancer but he says she never got through this she died deeply depressed and that would have
been 16 years after Carrie was killed that she she lived in that deep depression oh I think also sometimes
with these cases her mom's grief and her mom's stress might have caused her illness
and I have so much respect for Carrie's brother and Carrie's friend Nicole with the amount of time and effort like
you've said that they try to keep this in the spotlight it's not solved you know spoiler alert it's not solved
and this family wants answers and of course Captain Carey's friends were deeply impacted too
The Citizen Newspaper says uh did an interview with her friend Nicole who says I have relived that night for
30 years it doesn't get easier as they say it just gets different I remember it vividly as the images flashed through my
head at lightning speed I see myself sitting in the basement with her on my lap standing outside and feeling the
snowflakes hitting my face finding her gone minutes later and walking the streets calling her name crying and
wanting desperately to find her in nothing walking the streets putting up posters and going door to door
the next day being dragged home because a body was found hearing the phone ring and my mom saying no and begin to cry so
that's she's kind of flashing through her memories of of that night and the following day her this is
her friend Nicole that we we've talked so much about already well and you also wonder as far as her friends go and her
family goes especially the brother like you said he's 16 but this was a party of
a bunch of high school kids you would think that maybe there'd there'd be somebody talking or some rumors and so
yeah maybe the cops are going to solve this case but maybe there's going to be some rumors and some leads that that he
can follow or or her friend Nicole could follow themselves the general consensus
in the town of Thompson as iterated by the mother of a classmate of carries was was quote that sort of thing happens in
the big cities but not in Thompson the town had its share of crime of course but they were generally of the drunk and
disorderly variety and also Petty crimes like theft burglary and of course they had some drugs and so on but not the
brutal beating death of a quiet 15 year old girl one of my first question is as a law enforcement if I was working with
cases what drugs and alcohol were at this party was it just beer was there some type of booze
was there heavier drugs at the at this party all reports are that they had some beer there and we need to keep in mind
too it's a different time it's a it's a very different location than where we live
there were persons that were 15 to 18 years old so the 18 year olds could legally drink well with such a short and
quick timeline carrying our friend Nicole go to this party with a group of teens they're at the party for a time
period Kerry runs into her ex-boyfriend she feels uncomfortable ask her friend Nicole if they can leave Nicole runs
into her ex talks with him for a little bit seems like Kerry lost her patience and decided to just head out on her own
she leaves the party Nicole her friend can't find her the next day the family report her missing and then the
following Saturday they find her body such a short time period a lot of emotions and a lot of questions
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Kerrie Ann Brown was only fifteen years old when she vanished from a party attended by a bunch of local teenagers. Authorities believe she left the party on foot and of her own free will. But what happened after that is still a mystery even decades later. Kerry lived with her family in the town of Thompson, Manitoba. Her body was found on a Saturday afternoon by two women on horseback. Kerrie was murdered. Some of the evidence points to more than one killer. Join us in the Garage as we discuss this cold case from Canada.

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Brief Summary

Carrie Ann Brown, a 15-year-old, was murdered in 1986; her case remains unsolved, impacting her family and community deeply.

Key points

The Haunting Cold Case. In 2016, the RCMP revisits the chilling 1986 murder of Carrie Ann Brown.
Carrie's Last Day. A glimpse into Carrie Ann Brown's normal life before tragedy struck.
The Party Before the Storm. Carrie attends a friend's party, unaware of the danger that awaits her.
The Family's Desperate Search. Carrie's family and friends mobilize to find her, leading to devastating news.
The Discovery of Carrie. Carrie's body is found after a frantic search, revealing the tragic outcome of the night.
Trevor's Heartbreaking Moment. Trevor initially believes his sister is safe, only to discover the truth later.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I was a happy 15 year old girl.

Carrie Ann Brown's reflection on her past.

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Tension

75/ 100High tension

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