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in Manitoba Saskatchewan British Columbia decided it was time to to revisit a cold Cold Case the 1986
homicide that rattled the town of Thompson and haunted its inhabitants ever since the Spectre of the Dead
15-year-old girl cast a PA over the whole place and there was nothing new so the
RCMP took on a novel approach on October 16th 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 Anne 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 there's 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 5' 1 in 110 lb but fast
and feisty I was a great Runner and could easily beat my brothers first two classes that day were backtack 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 with
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 $10 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 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
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 [Music] garage [Music] in 1986 Carrie an Brown was just as you
heard a normal 15-year-old girl living in the great white North Carrie was born in Burks Falls Ontario on August 19th
1971 in ' 86 she lived in her family's house on Red River Drive in the town of Thompson car's parents are Jim and Anne
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 funloving 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 Coco but she also had recently split up with a boyfriend more on that in a minute car's parents had
some troubles in that car's mom and brother Trevor both suffered from retinitis Pigmentosa and by the time our
story takes place an 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 Kur fuffle 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 car'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 Ronda and Nicole will be joining her at
this teenage gathering before the party Rhonda who lived nearby came over to car's house to pick her up Carrie was
wearing a pink outfit with her favorite Pittsburgh Penguins jacket around 7 p.m.
that night they wandered to the billiard's place then another friend's house and then to Doug
Doug lives at 11 trout Avenue so from my understanding here Captain Doug's house
is quite a ways away from car's house from my understanding they walk there in a rather large group of friends so
they're walking there it's the 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 Carrie and Rhonda but just two blocks away from Doug's house the
neighborhood is the Westwood neighborhood and 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 5 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 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 got a FL hey did you get the flyer you're invited sometimes
that can go terribly wrong or sometimes terribly right from my understanding C AP 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 Foreman's basement right and everybody's having a party in Eric foran'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 exboyfriend 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
car's sitting there having a good time out of the party her boyfriend her ex-boyfriend walks in with his
ex-girlfriend and the first thing you're thinking is awward 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 Al 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 247 and this is in the 80s but back in
the 90s things would close down about 9:00 10 o'cl 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 can no longer see her and she's
continuing on this conversation yeah but we all been there you know 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 car stops making her 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 has 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 and one person storms off into the night on foot alone yeah
weirdly that happened at almost every party I went to so Nicole she can't find her friend she
decides all right I'm going to 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 State 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 going to
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
1:00 a.m. and her mom would later say that she saw her daughter Nicole throwing up and I don't know if she
drank too much 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 Co 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 phon and cell phone usage by
younger people these days but today car's friends would be able to see on snapmap 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 or car if she felt like hey it's time to go Nicole let's say car
let's say 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
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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 car's friends started calling
looking for her so at first car's family Trevor her brother in 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 car's friend has
struggled with this heck there's friends of M 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 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 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 car's brother Trevor discussed this very situation
with the Thompson citizen new newspaper and said when Nicole called looking for Carrie they meaning his family realized
no one knew where Carrie was she made some phone calls and then she called us back and said car'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 the car's family the round family they didn't
sleep that night well you remember these parties when you're 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 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
10:00 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 call 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 attempt to get home or go elsewhere this makes sense to do as a parent especially after you're being
told this 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 Carrie would have been um picking
her up the 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 car'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 they
wouldn't even come into the party so 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 pm 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 car'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 Carrie 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 that they not
true it's not true number one and 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 3:00 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 we 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 2 to 3 minute walk yeah so that makes it even more
difficult because we have these foot 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 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 car's body who was still there and
he's asking her questions he 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 h 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 car'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 car's 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 your sister 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 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 morg 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 View the body he said that Carrie had
blood coming out of her ears an 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 1:00 a.m. 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 1:00 a.m. 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 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
now Trevor keep in mind he's only 16 years old at the time he's car's older brother just one year older than than
carry 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
car's brother and car'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 K'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 flash 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 and nothing walking the
streets putting up posters and going door too 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 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 interated 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 the case is 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 Carrie and her friend Nicole go to this party with a group of
teens they're at the party for a time period Carrie 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 Carrie 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 that we need answers [Music] for want to thank everybody so much for
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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

The episode discusses the unsolved murder of Carrie Anne Brown, detailing her last day and the investigation that followed.

Key points

The Tragic Case of Carrie Anne Brown. In 2016, the RCMP revisited the cold case of Carrie Anne Brown, a 15-year-old girl murdered in 1986. Her haunting story is shared through her own words.
A Normal Day Turns Tragic. Carrie recounts her last day alive, filled with ordinary moments before her life was cut short. It was a day like any other, until it wasn't.
The Party Before the Storm. Carrie attends a friend's party, where she feels awkward after her ex-boyfriend shows up with his new girlfriend. This moment sets the stage for the tragedy that follows.
The Night Carrie Disappeared. Carrie vanishes after a party, leaving her friend Nicole devastated and guilty.
Discovery of Carrie's Body. Carrie's body is found by two women during a horseback ride, revealing a tragic fate.
Trevor's Heartbreaking Moment. Trevor, Carrie's brother, faces a devastating mix of hope and despair when he learns about the body.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I was a happy 15-year-old girl.

Carrie Anne Brown reflects on her life before tragedy struck.

5:00WatchNov 16, 2023

Tension

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