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Jessica Edith Louise Foster

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From: Kamloops Daily News

April 18, 2006

By: Jason Hewlett

Jessie met a man shortly after arriving in Las Vegas. He had a steady supply of money and a lifestyle full of fast cars and all-night parties. This was an attractive lure for her daughter, Glendene said.

City woman missing in Vegas

Jessie would call either Glendene or Crystal three times a week. She sometimes talked about violent arguments with the man. The calls ended abruptly March 27.

Glendene made repeated calls to a man who maintained that Jessie packed up and moved out without warning.

Mike Kirkman, an investigator with Las Vegas Detectives, said he has learned Jessie’s boyfriend may be a pimp separated from his wife, a known prostitute.

The man has a past conviction for domestic violence against the wife, who allegedly threatened Jessie on numerous occasions, Kirkman said in a telephone interview. Kirkman, a retired police officer, said he believes Jessie is in a situation she has no way of getting out of, he said.

“I think she’ fallen in with the wrong crowd and I have serious concerns that she’s in big trouble,” he said.

“When you’ve got a young girl who is 21 years old running in the wrong crowd, they think they know the world but they don’t. They don’t realize how tough people in this industry can be.”

Kirkman and the police department have questioned the man, who has since put his house up for sale and “gone on vacation in California,” he said.

Foster said he’s worried sick about Jessie. He witnessed her side of the relationship with the man when she stayed with him in Calgary a few months ago.

The man called Jessie 30 to 40 times a day. Many of the calls ended in furious arguments, he said.

Foster called the man after Jessie disappeared. The man told him she had left “because she got a better deal,” he said.

From: Kamloops Daily News

April 19, 2006

By: Jason Hewlett

The wife works at a brothel called The Chicken Ranch in Nye County, 112 kilometers west of Las Vegas. Kirkman fears Jessie may have ended up at such a place, he said.

She [Glendene] never approved of her daughter’s relationship and said it turned violent on several occasions. Her concerns turned to fear when Jessie, who contacted her family without fail at least three times a week, suddenly stopped calling.

From: The Province

April 21, 2006

By: Ethan Barron

Foster soon met a man named Peter who told her he raced cars and came from a wealthy family. She moved into his expensive condo.

“To her, he was like Prince Charming,” Grant said.

“What he was, he’s just like a frickin’ wolf.”

Foster, who had graduated from high school and went on to work as a waitress at Boston Pizza in Calgary and Kamloops, was convicted in Las Vegas of soliciting for prostitution in June 2005. Last September, she was charged with four more counts of that offence, investigator Mike Kirkman said.

Her Prince Charming was married to a convicted prostitute and he had been found guilty of spousal abuse.

An associate of Foster told Kirkman that Peter had beaten her up and that they’d seen the bruises.

“I think you can draw your own conclusions as to what he may be,” Kirkman said. “In English, it’s called a pimp.”

Peter told Foster’s mother that he came home April 3 to find Jessie had taken all her belongings and moved out.

Las Vegas police brought Peter, 39, in for questioning.

“We’re interested in him enough that we brought him in a second time,” said the department’s public information officer Tim Bedwell.

It appears Peter has a considerable amount of money but no legitimate source of income, Bedwell said.

But police have no evidence of a crime in relation to Foster’s disappearance, and Peter’s conviction for spousal assault isn’t enough for a warrant to search his home, Bedwell said.

Peter is the only person police know of in the Las Vegas area to question in connection with Foster’s disappearance, Bedwell said.

Peter told The Province he has no involvement with the prostitution business and that he never physically abused Foster.

“I don’t give a s—t what the hell they say about me,” Peter said. “When I met Jessica Foster, she was a hooker.”

He said Foster stayed with him on and off and he thinks she’s now working as a decoy for the police, or has gone underground to avoid being deported for prostitution offences.

From: Las Vegas Sun

April 21, 2006

By: Tom Gorman

In short order she moved in with a fellow named Peter Todd, a 39-year-old Jamaican national who lives in a half-million-dollar tract home in a swank North Las Vegas neighborhood. A neighbor said Peter has driven home some fancy cars—a Jaguar, a Land Rover, a BMW.

Jessie told her parents—Glendene Grant and Dwight Foster, who have been divorced for years—that Peter was a trust-fund baby. He had enough

money to take care of her so she wouldn’t have to work, she said.

In late March, Jessie’s phone calls stopped. Her parents called the fellow she had been living with, Peter. He said he last saw Jessie on April 3. Next thing he knew, he said, she was gone and so was all of her stuff.

Peter told an investigator that Jessie was a prostitute, according to the missing persons report. A local private eye, Mike Kirkman, had learned the same information, and told the parents. They were heartsick.

Police talked to Peter again this week.

I called Peter on Thursday. He was coy, and sounded a lot more concerned about his own skin than Jessie’s.

I asked Peter what he knew about Jessie’s lifestyle and how she made money. She couldn’t get a legitimate job, he said, because she doesn’t have a Social Securing number.

Peter said that by examining all the action on Jessie’s cell phone, it should be obvious what Jessie did for a living. But he wouldn’t elaborate.

I asked bluntly, was she a prostitute? “If she was, that was her business,” he said. “Her dad asked me that and I told him, man to man, that I don’t know, and that’s not something I’ll discuss with anybody’s parents.”

Could he explain Jessie’s disappearance? No, he said, except that she’s left before. She has other friends. She went to San Francisco once, without warning. He concede that she would always call him after a few days and that this time, there’s been no contact.

“It’s spooky as hell and it makes me kind of nervous, her not being in contact with anybody,” Peter said. “Either something happened to her, or she has just cut everybody off.”

When asked what he did for a living, Peter did not mention a trust fund. He said he fixes, sells and races junk cars.

I told Peter that I had a photograph of him with Jessie, and would he mind if we published it because it might help trigger someone’s memory. Don’t you dare put my picture in the paper, Peter said.

“I got caught hookin’ up with the wrong chick,” Peter said. “With all the friggin’ women in Las Vegas that I’ve hooked up with, I never ran into no kind of (stuff) like this before.”

From: Calgary Sun

April 27, 2006

By: Sarah Kennedy

Kirkland learned Jessica had been working as a prostitute and the man she was living with had been her pimp -- a stark contrast from the young woman who had never been in trouble and graduated from John Diefenbaker high school four years ago with

top grades.

The PI also found she had been badly beaten and hospitalized recently, as well as being charged with prostitution, said Dwight.

From: Calgary Sun

April 28, 2006

By: Sarah Kennedy

"Each day that passes, the prognosis is grimmer," said Kirkman, a 25-year PI. "I'm trying to resolve the case to give the family answers but we're not getting any co-operation from the person she lived with."

From: Edmonton Sun

May 1, 2006

By: Sarah Kennedy

CALGARY -- Jessica Foster didn't seem to be in any trouble in Las Vegas before she vanished, says a man who lived with her.

James Todd said Foster had been dating his twin brother Peter

and lived with them in Las Vegas before she disappeared more than a month ago.

"It's pretty sad the way she just left and no one seems to know where she went," he said. "I've been asking myself since this started, where is she? And why hasn't she contacted anyone?"

James said he hasn't heard from Jessica in more than a month and as far as he knows, neither has his brother.

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