A lot can happen in 20 years.
We’ve seen the city grow up and out, buildings torn down and new ones built in their place, mayors in and out of office. But one thing remains the same: Tamra Keepness is still missing.
Tamra was just five years old when she disappeared from her home in central Regina on the night of July 5, 2004. Photos circulated by police, media and online for the last two decades show her bobbed black hair and smiling face, full of the promise and joy you would see from any five-year-old.
“She was dearly loved by her immediate and extended family and is still, to this day, incredibly missed,” said family spokesperson and Cowessess First Nation Chief Erica Beaudin in a recent interview.
“Until she comes home alive or otherwise, there’s always hope that she will come back.”
But the circumstances of her disappearance remain a mystery, shrouded by several cloudy recollections of what occurred that fateful night.
Leader-Post archives tell pieces of the story that identify some of the specifics from the night Tamra went missing.
Lorena Keepness, Tamra’s mother, awoke the morning of July 6, 2004, to find her daughter had disappeared without a trace. The memory of the night before was fuzzy for the adults of the house, who had been drinking.
Lorena lived with her six children and boyfriend Dean McArthur in a two-storey home on the 1800 block of Ottawa Street, in a neighbourhood where poverty and addiction were ubiquitous.
FULL STORY: https://leaderpost.com/news/crime/tamra-keepness-20-years-missing-regina-community-hope
