On Oct. 16, 2017, Jordan Holling didn’t show up for work.
This was out of character—the 17-year-old was rarely even late for his shifts at the Campbell River A&W.
The friends he had been with late the previous night hadn’t heard from him all day. Later, he wouldn’t meet up with his sister, like he had planned to. By the evening, still, no one had seen or heard from Jordan.
A police report was filed, a missing-person alert was sent out, and worry began to grow.
“Things were weird. It wasn’t instantly a major worry… We were concerned, but we didn’t know anything really crazy had happened other than he was missing and things didn’t seem right,” Morgan Holling, Jordan’s dad, told Capital Daily.
“It just got worse from there.”
Holling knows that his son left his friend’s apartment on 16th Avenue sometime after 1am to walk the short distance home. He was last seen on surveillance footage near Highway 19 and 14th Avenue. His skateboard was found in the area, but there has been no sign of Jordan.
It’s been three years since Jordan’s disappearance, and in that time, there has been little progress on his case, and even fewer answers.
Each year, BC sees a disproportionately high number of missing persons cases, with nearly double the number reported in the next closest province, Ontario, which has nearly triple its population. Across the country, the majority of missing persons cases are resolved within days to a week, but some, like Jordan’s, remain unsolved for years.
And while missing persons cases in BC continue to eclipse the national average, there is no clear consensus on why that is.
So many unknowns
BC recorded 12,400 missing persons cases involving adults in 2020—more than 40% of the country’s 29,645 cases. The same year, there were 5,870 cases of missing children in BC—the third highest number in the country behind Ontario and Manitoba.
Over the past five years, these statistics from the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains have been fairly consistent for adults; for children, the numbers have dropped by more than 1,600 since 2015.
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