#emma fillipoff

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Disappearance of Emma Fillipoff

Emma Fillipoff arrived in Victoria in the fall of 2011 from Perth, Ontario. She had brief employment at the Red Fish Blue Fish seafood restaurant in Victoria's Inner Harbour. Since the work was seasonal, Fillipoff left the job on October 31, 2012. She assured co-workers she would be back in the spring. In what police believe was preparation to move back to Ontario, Fillipoff hired a tow-truck on November 21. Unbeknownst to her family, Fillipoff had stayed at the Sandy Merriman House women's shelter on and off since February. On November 23, Fillipoff was captured on security footage at the Victoria YMCA, entering, then leaving, then entering multiple times as if possibly avoiding someone on the outside. In the days preceding her disappearance, Fillipoff had phoned her mother in Ontario, asking if she could come home. Each time her tone would quickly change and Fillipoff would then ask her mother not to come. On the final call, her mother became aware that Fillipoff had been staying at the Sandy Merriman House, and even though Fillipoff had asked her not to come, she made plans to fly out immediately. Fillipoff's last words to her mother were, "I don't know how I can face you." Her mother arrived at Sandy Merriman House at about 11:00 pm on the 28th, three hours after Fillipoff had been last seen by police at the Empress Hotel. Early on the day of November 28, Fillipoff had been captured on a 7-Eleven store video on Government Street purchasing a pre-paid cell phone. The video showed her hesitating in departing the store, seemingly checking the street outside. She returned to the 7-Eleven to buy a pre-paid credit card for $200. Reportedly, she left the Sandy Merriman House at about 6:00 p.m. that day. Soon after, she hailed a taxi and asked to be taken to the Victoria International Airport; however, she soon exited the taxi for lack of adequate fare, even though she had the $200 prepaid card. Minutes later, Fillipoff was seen walking barefoot in front of the Empress Hotel. An acquaintance of hers, Dennis Quay, called 9-1-1 to say a woman was in severe distress outside the hotel. Victoria police arrived, took Fillipoff's name, and spent 45 minutes speaking with her. Deciding that she was not a threat to herself or anyone else, they released her. Until a report surfaced in June 2018, no one reported seeing her since 8:00 pm that night. Later that evening, police met Fillipoff's mother at Sandy Merriman House; by midnight Fillipoff was classified as a missing person. Initially, the police stated that Fillipoff had last been seen "with friends several blocks away on Burdett Avenue between Blanshard and Quadra streets." Investigators explored more than 200 leads, turning up minimal information. Most evidence indicates she was planning to return home to Ottawa, but there was no proof that she ever left Victoria. The cell phone she bought had never been activated. Fillipoff's credit card was allegedly found on the side of the road near the Juan de Fuca Community Centre, north of where she disappeared. It was found by a stranger, whose use of the card to purchase cigarettes was tracked by police.

[missing-girls-and-women]

Emma Alexandra Fillipoff, 26

Last seen in Victoria, British Colombia in 2012.

[everybodyhatesmiddleschool]

Cases I would love to see profiled on "Unsolved Mysteries"

The Godard family deaths/disappearance

The Lane Bryant shooting in Tinley Park, Illinois

The disappearance of Paul and Sarah Skiba and Lorenzo Chivers

The death of Judy Smith

The death of Jonathan Luna

The disappearance of the "Springfield Three"

The strange tale of the "Yuba County Five"

The disappearance of Allison and Marie-José Benitez

The disappearance of Emma Fillipoff

The disappearance of Kyron Horman

The disappearance of Steven Koecher

The disappearance of Toni Sharpless

The disappearance of Brandon Swanson

The disappearance of Maura Murray

The disappearance of Jamie Fraley

The disappearance of Andrew Gosden

The disappearance of Brian Shaffer

The disappearance of Jennifer Kesse

The disappearance of Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos

The disappearance of Michele Anne Harris

The disappearance of Sneha Anne Philip

The disappearance of Leah Roberts (Unsolved Mysteries did a segment on this in 2001, but new testing of her car in 2006 would necessitate an update)

The disappearance of Asha Degree

(the ones in bold are ones that drive me especially crazy)

[kathleenpurdy]

NOVEMBER - Six poems from a mother to her missing daughter from Bayberry Films on Vimeo.

Emma Fillipoff has been missing since November 28, 2012. Her mother Shelley has written many poems for her over the years she's spent searching. She shares them every month on the Help Find Emma Fillipoff Facebook page.

This mini poetry documentary highlights 6 of those heartfelt poems. It was released for the 6-year anniversary of Emma's disappearance.

'November'

Six poems from a mother to her missing daughter

Emma Untraceable Lost The Gift of Memory Time Fragmented Life

6 years ago, on November 28, 2012 Emma Fillipoff disappeared

A film by Kimberly Bordage

Special thanks Pam Sheridan Kevin Ouellette Frank Orlando

Songs 'November' 'Sad Day' 'Tomorrow' by Bensound

Help Find Emma Fillipoff findemma.ca

[alykossabr]

i like her sweater

[apocryphi]

Possibly avoiding someone, checking around all corners in fear for a threatening presence, a woman was seen walking barefoot outside a hotel in Canada. Police called from a bystander’s careful eye seeing her in distress found out she was named Emma Fillipoff, deemed no apparent threat and thus, went out into the world never to be seen again. The last known sighting showcased a person truly afraid, acting increasingly erratic.

Leaving behind most belongings, Emma’s car became located, filled with personal objects as Fillipoff intended moving back to Ontario after a brief seasonal job. Family said her communications prior were suspicious; final words spoken over the phone were about how she could not face her mother. Fillipoff had been staying at a women’s shelter far from home, and knowing this, the criminal investigation led towards a possibility of stalking or even manic depression. Whatever inclined purchasing both a prepaid cell phone which was never activated as well as a massive credit card, in a clear stupor she appeared, then vanished.

A frequent writer, personal documents exposed minute details suggesting mental illness, although others said suicide felt improbable. Emma never spoke about potentially being followed, yet cameras that day show her entering stores hesitatingly, forsaking a cab ride to the airport even though the card previously bought amounted to a couple hundred dollars, presenting clear signs denoting severe paranoia.

Lastly, the most bizarre lead turned up two years later, a man in Vancouver throwing out the missing persons paper showing Emma’s face, one asking for a reward around $25K. He reportedly stated before leaving, “It's one of those missing persons posters, except she's not missing, she's my girlfriend and she ran away 'cause she hates her parents,” prompting owners to call the police. His face was captured on security cameras but has not been identified.

[reallifeishorror]

Read the original post HERE <<

Hey everyone, hows it going? Just stopping by to share some updates on cases as well as this months blogs that I wrote for the Generation why podcast this month.

JAMES BOYD CASE FINALLY SOLVED

So first of all, remember the unsolved case of James Albert Boyd? He was the eccentric antiques collector who went missing from his fortress of a home back in the  late eighties. He was last seen at a bank withdrawing $1500 in travelers checks for his upcoming business trip to South Africa. He and his car completely vanished off the face of the earth and for years the case was unsolved. Recently there has been an update and his killer has confessed.  Read the case and update HERE<<

TAMPA SERIAL KILLER CAUGHT

Now for a very important update on the Tampa serial killer- he's finally been caught. If you haven't been following this case in the news you might want to check out the first three posts on it first: 

-Three murdered in Seminole heights, Tampa, Florida.

-Fourth Victim in Tampa serial killer case

-TAMPA SERIAL KILLER CAUGHT AND IDENTIFIED

"@HANGINGPRO"

Do you ever feel lonely or sad and turn to online friends to be consoled? Hopefully you don't run into someone like Takahiro Shiraishi, or "hanging pro" as he was known online. Shiraishi was a 27 year old man from Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He claimed to be a professional in the art of suicide by hanging and offered his expertise to vulnerable suicidal people online. In reality, he had his own reasons to lure victims to his apartment. (READ THE CASE HERE<<)

PLAY ZONE

Next up we have the case of 26 year old British murderer Jemma Lilley. Lilley was writing a book about a serial killer called "play zone"- a work that she had been penning since her teenage years. The main character was named "SOS" or "Son of Sam" after one of her favorite killers David Berkowitz. "Play zone" would eventually become a reality. (READ THIS CASE HERE<<)

THE DEATH OF KILL WALL

I'm sure you've all seen this one in the news. Journalist Kim Wall died while taking a tour in a mini submarine belonging to an inventor and engineer in his mid-forties named Peter Langkjær Madsen. Parts of her dismembered body later washed up on shore... What happened that night on the submarine?(READ HERE<<)

THE ITALIAN JOSEF FRITZL

Warning- this post is very disturbing and contains mentions of torture, rape and abuse. I wrote about this very recent case today. It's about a woman who was held captive for 10 years and the ordeal she suffered through. (READ HERE<<)

**Emma Fillipoff updates:**

Something else I wanted to share is the attention the Emma Fillipoff case is receiving from various podcasts recently.

If you're not familiar with it my original post is HERE<<

The night time podcast has a whole series dedicated to the missing woman and its well worth checking out HERE<<

[coralines-oddities]

The Disappearance of Emma Fillipoff

Emma Fillipoff is a Canadian woman who has been missing since  November 28, 2012; she was last seen in the vicinity of the Empress Hotel between 7:30 - 8:30 PM. She was 26 years old at the time of her disappearance.

In the fall of 2011, Emma moved from Perth, Ontario to Victoria, BC. She was 25 at the time, and had no job lined up, but had planned on finding work when she got there. In Victoria, Emma had lived with a friend and the friend’s partner, and later moved into a different unit in the same building. In the winter of 2011, Emma found work as a barista at a cafe, but the job did not last long. After a couple of months in Victoria, Emma began living a more transient lifestyle. She began living in Hotel 760, where she also cleaned rooms, as well as living on boats, sleeping in the woods and in trees. From February to November 2012, she was staying at a women’s shelter on a rotating monthly basis. She got a seasonal job at a seafood restaurant where she worked during the busy season until October 31; she was expected to come back to the job in February 2013.

During her time in Victoria, Emma, who did not own a telephone or cell phone, communicated with her family through email - most of them being cryptic and poetic. She would call her family on holidays on a phone at the shelter. Her family wasn’t aware of her staying in a shelter.

Emma would spend her time at the public library, and would associate with homeless people, artists, and street performers. She was described as being free-spirited, creative, adventurous, giving, soft-spoken, private, independent, and trusting. She was known to keep several journals and wrote a blog. She was known to have been in only one relationship during this time, and it ended after a couple months on mutual terms. She enjoyed drinking and socializing, but did not share her thoughts and rarely talked about her family.

In the summer of 2012, Emma stopped drinking, smoking, and cut out sugar and caffeine and drank copious amounts of water in a way to live a more “pure” lifestyle; she also became vegan. A friend said she became “very thin” and was “monk-like” in her social life and eating habits. She appeared to have trouble adapting to the changing seasons, and seemed unsure on what to do with herself. Shortly after her disappearance, she became withdrawn from others, paranoid, and fearful.

In June or July 2012, Emma bought a van with the intention of living in it and traveling along the coast. She had hoped the van would give her independence, but it ended up being a financial burden on her - it broke down three times and had to be towed to a mechanic.

In mid-November, Emma had told some friends that she was looking to leave Victoria to go to Salt Spring Island or Tofino, BC. She had also talked about sailing a boat to Mexico, moving to San Juan with a man she barely knew, moving to California, moving to Costa Rica, traveling to Japan with her father, living off the grid in the woods, visiting an aunt in Lantzville, BC, and moving back with her family in Perth. During this time, she became extremely withdrawn from people; she cancelled a trip to Mexico with a friend last minute and avoided going anywhere that wasn’t the pier or the shelter.

Emma’s journals hinted at her struggle with mental illness since she was 11 years old. She was secretive about it and didn’t divulge her struggle with friends and family. In winter of 2011, a childhood friend and roommate observed Emma obsessively arranging patterns using things like feathers, shells, and rocks. She sometimes asked friends to participate in these rituals.  According to three friends in BC, Emma had began feeling stress from harassment she had received while attending culinary school in 2008 - 2009. She did not provide details to friends or her journal. A roommate recalled her need to not be in social spaces with men having to do with this harassment.

About two weeks before her disappearance, a friend recalled driving by the shelter and finding Emma outside, cold and wet, staring motionlessly at birds. Shelter staff started to recognize Emma’s paranoid and depressive behavior. At this time, Emma began giving away, selling, or throwing away her personal belongings. This behavior let the shelter staff to believe she was suicidal and/or suffering from mental illness. They were unable to contact her parents due to privacy laws, so instead had the police called to do a mental health check on Emma. The staff explained the situation to the police, and instead of doing a check, they told the staff to call back if she exhibited this behavior again; staff did not call back.

On November 20, Emma was seen on surveillance videos at the local YMCA. The video shows her entering and exiting the building four times within a 14 minute period. She seems nervous and is peering into the windows of the building, as if waiting for or hiding from someone. She is seeing holding something in her hand shaped like an iPod or cell phone.

Emma then made a series of tear-filled calls to her mother, Shelly, starting on November 23. Her mother assured her that she would make the necessary arrangements to get Emma back home. Emma called back the next day, saying she would stay in Victoria and try to make things work. She repeatedly changed her mind over the next four days. Emma told a friend that she was “anxious” about her mom coming to Victoria and that she “couldn’t face her”.

Emma’s final call to Shelly took place on November 28, around 4:30AM, the day she was last seen. She told her mom, “Don’t come Mom. Not today.” Shelly noticed a change in the tone of Emma’s voice, which concerned her. Shelly noticed the caller ID from the number Emma was calling from was “Sandy Merriman”. She assumed it was a friend, but looked it up and was shocked to discover that it was a woman’s shelter. Shelly, who was concerned that Emma was suffering from mental illness, took a flight to Victoria that afternoon.

The morning of her disappearance, Emma went to the Chateau Victoria, where she discovers that her van was going to be towed. She begs the staff for another day to move the van, which they allowed. Around 8AM, Emma was spotted on a surveillance camera at a 7-11. She uses a debit card to buy a $200 prepaid credit card. Afterwards, she nervously lingers outside the store and peers into the windows. She runs into a friend at 10AM. The friend said she was standing motionless on a corner. He asks Emma if she needs help, to which she slowly shakes her head no. Some people claim Emma was at the library around noon. After that, she was seen by another friend at a soup kitchen. She says she isn’t feeling well and can’t talk, and pulls away when the friend asked if she wanted a hug. Two people saw Emma walking along Pandora Street; they were so struck by her odd behavior and called the police. The police never followed up. She reportedly wasn’t wearing shoes at this point. Another witness saw Emma walking with an unknown man. No description was given of the man. Around 5:30PM, Emma purchases a prepaid cell phone from the same 7-11 where she bought the prepaid credit card from. The cell phone was never activated. She again is seen being nervous and peering into the store.

Emma returned to the shelter at 6PM and was alerted by staff that her mother was on the way. Emma was visibly upset and stormed out of the shelter. She was pursued by another resident, but was unable to catch up with her. It is unclear how the staff knew her mother was on the way, as her mother did not tell the staff.

Around 6:10PM, a taxi cab driver picks up Emma near the shelter. She asks him to take her to the airport, but then quickly changes her mind. Even though she had the prepaid credit card on her, as well as between $2,000 to $3,000 in her bank account, she tells the driver that she cannot afford the fare and has him drop her off where she was picked up. When they arrive, she asks to sit in the cab for a while. She becomes paranoid and restless when she hears his dispatch radio, and asks “Why is there noise coming out of that?” She pays the fare and leaves the cab.

At 6:15, she is seen by a friend named Denis. Emma is standing barefoot on a corner, looking disoriented, paranoid, and unable to cross the street. She doesn’t say much and is looking all around her. She asks Denis to walk with her for a bit, and he becomes worried about her behavior. They enter a restaurant at 7PM and Denis calls the police. He observes the police talking to Emma and leaves.

Police assess Emma for 45 minutes. According to police notes, Emma did not engage with police with dialogue, but instead shook her head or answered with one word answers. She only spoke after 30 minutes, to give her name. She was barefoot and refused to put her shoes back on. By 8PM, police decide that Emma was not a threat to herself or anyone else and let her walk away. This is the last confirmed sighting of Emma.

Shelly arrived around 11PM and was told Emma did not claim her bed that night. Around midnight, Shelly called police and declared her a missing person.

On the 29th, the Chateau Victoria arranges to have Emma’s car towed. Police search it and find almost all of her possessions in it, including her laptop, passport, journals, camera, and library books. On this same day, Shelly was visiting the shelter during each shift and was informed by the staff about Emma’s bizarre behavior leading up to her disappearance. During this time, Emma was reportedly spotted on Douglas Street in Victoria, though this sighting is unconfirmed.

On December 2, a witness reports an odd encounter at the harbor after dark. Emma tells them to remember the name “Emma Fillipoff” and tells them to repeat it three times. This, too, is also unconfirmed.

On December 5th, the prepaid credit card Emma bought was flagged as being used at a gas station on Sooke Road. The man who used it is cleared after being questioned and polygraphed by police. He tells police that he found it on the side of the road by Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre in Colwood. He later calls Shelly three times and tells her due to being drunk, he cannot remember where he found the card. He is certain that he waited a week before using it.

Also on December 5th, Julian Huard, who Emma met in Perth and moved to Victoria in early 2012, becomes a person of interest after Emma’s parents find odd messages he sent to Emma on Facebook, hidden in the “Other” message tab. He also sent Emma a message weeks after she vanished about “building [her] a cabin in the woods”. He was part of the initial search team until he became a person of interest. He was questioned and polygraphed and cleared as a suspect.

In May 2014, an agitated man entered a clothing store in downtown Vancouver, with a crumpled up missing person’s poster of Emma in his hand. He told the employees that Emma was his girlfriend and she just wanted to be left alone. The man was wearing a green shirt, had a noticeable limp, and flame tattoos on his arm. He has yet to be identified and no one has come forward with information about him.

Following Emma’s disappearance, a search team comprised of Emma’s friends, family, and volunteers searched the Victoria area and the communities of Vancouver Island. Eventually the target area widened to include the BC mainland and locations across Canada and the United States. A dive team searched in the Victoria harbor but found nothing. A private investigator worked on the case for a year but couldn’t locate Emma. Despite a $25,000 reward, there have been no confirmed sightings of Emma.

If you have any information on Emma’s whereabouts, please call 911 or contact the Victoria Police Department non-emergency number at 250-995-7654. For tips or sightings of Emma, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or email fillipoff@hotmail.com. Also visit the official website http://www.helpfindemmafillipoff.com/ and the official Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/HelpFindEmmaFillipoff/.

Links and references:

http://www.helpfindemmafillipoff.com/

https://www.facebook.com/HelpFindEmmaFillipoff/

http://thegenerationwhypodcast.com/disappearance-of-emma-fillipoff-256-generation-why

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Emma_Fillipoff

[melodicfix8]

[pathologising]

wait what r ur favorite documentaries, ophie.....

theyre all youtube ones bc im not paying for SHIT fuck that !!! tw for like medical stuff / depiction of bad events (?) / mentions of gore n crime (possibly also showing gore(?) but i cant remember if any of them show anything bc i usually watch them while doing other things) etc etc bc theyre all either medical or crime/forensics stuff lmao theralzumab documentary / munchausen by proxy documentary / fatal familial insomnia documentary (short) / luka magnotta (fifth estate) / emma fillipoff (fifth estate) /  nurse elizabeth wettlaufer  (fifth estate) / hungerford massacre 

some r long and some r shorter but these r a few ones ive seen tht i rly remember!  dont rly have “favourites” bc with the nature of the content i feel lke saying..favourites is weird but these are the ones i remember a bit more

i usually watch channels like eleanor neale ! she has a lot of comprehensive info on cases n shit but the content is heavy obviously

[tammyfeabakker]

Watch "The Vanishing of Emma Fillipoff" on YouTube

[missingpersonsadvocate]

Thinking of Emma Fillipoff

[fletchermarple]

Interested in Canadian murders?

Hey Anon, I’m interested in cases from everywhere. Canada seems to have its share of intriguing murders and unsolved mysteries. I’ve written about a few, like serial killer Dellen Millard, the murder of Jassi Sidhu, Grace Marks, the unsolved murders of Cédrika Provencher and Amber Tuccaro and the disappearances of Nicole Morin and Emma Fillipoff, among others. Do you have a special case in mind?

[reynardiine]

WANNA SEE SOME WALKER SHIT? probably not. i just wanted to heap together this collection for research purposes. below are some things i’ve found across various media that remind me of the walkers, whether it be the brothers three, one of them individually, or dear old mom and dad’s fucked up past. be aware that ANY AND ALL content can be unsettling, revolting, or altogether triggering. potential triggers include but are not limited to ( if i missed any, please tell me so that they can be added to the list for those using blacklist ): mannequins, death, homicide, suicide, mentions of mutilation, kidnapping, assault, flashing images, loud noises, and sickening visuals. discretion is heavily advised.

YOUTUBE

the poughkeepsie tapes

the deeper channel

heaven’s gate

11B-X-1371

grave robbing for morons

find amelia

robert helpmann

i feel fantastic

kraina grzybów

memory hole

terrance, bc, canada

doodman2

AUDIO ( yt, etc. )

red wolf

ermacblack

daisy bell

the grinder

horses

nws: hurricane katrina

wandering soul

WIKI

john titor

project mkultra

carl tanzler

hinterkaifeck murders

emma fillipoff

israel keyes

shaye saint john

REDDIT

markovian parallax denigrate

where is kenny veach?

michael angelo emert

VARIOUS

973-eht-namuh-973

daniel laplante

tengri 137

sevens exposed

joy of satan

tyler hadley’s party

fridgebro

[kathleenpurdy]

The Search for Emma Fillipoff - 10 Years, with Kimberly Bordage and Shelley Fillipoff (2022) from Bayberry Films on Vimeo.

Nearly a decade has passed since Emma Fillipoff was last seen, barefoot, on the streets of Victoria, British Columbia. From the initial desperate search to find Emma, and the ongoing effort to piece together her movements and whereabouts, her mother, Shelley holds fast to the hope that Emma will be found alive. Many leads have been collected over the years, but Emma remains missing.

Shelley continues the search for Emma, with assistance and advocacy from Kimberly Bordage — Producer and Director of the upcoming Docuseries, Barefoot in the Night: The Search for Emma Fillipoff. A preview of the Docuseries will be released on November 28th, the ten-year anniversary of Emma’s disappearance.

This update to their 2018 Podcast, The Search for Emma Fillipoff with Kimberly Bordage, gives voice to Shelley's thoughts and feelings.

"Ten years is no different than nine years… eleven months… but they are markers. And ten years leaps out at people, and it has leapt out at me."

In the podcast, Shelley and Kim discuss the upcoming documentary series and the anticipated release of an age progression image later this month. Emma will not fade into memory. The search continues…

I Could Write, Ayla Nereo (The Tide)

Attribution-non commercial-share-alike 3.0 United States License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) freemusicarchive.org/music/Wildlight/The_Tide_Acoustic/Wildlight_-_The_Tide_Acoustic_-_11_I_Could_Write_Acoustic

[paranormalradioandpodcast]

Emma Fillipoff is Missing - 9 - Shelley’s Refocused Search

Available Nov 26th

In part 9 of the Nighttime series covering the disappearance of Emma Fillipoff, we will again be joined by Emma’s mother Shelley Fillipoff.

In this emotional conversation Shelley shares many details of her now six year long, odyssey like, search for her beloved daughter.

Our discussion includes;

the information Shelley used initially to guide her search

the new witness account of Emma’s whereabouts after her last known sighting

the ground search planned for December

a Gofundme campaign to fund the search and an upcoming film project related to it

and what closure means to the mother of a missing child

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