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Well, immediately I think of her red hair because that was one of the most striking features of her. And uh she was
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uh somewhat of a shy teenager. Uh one thing I do remember, she didn't like to have her picture taken very
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often, but she loved the water. As Kevin said, we lived on the lake, spent innumerable
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hours in the water, swimming during storms. We had a canoe and just she just loved being outdoors. And
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what did this Bobby Jack Fowler take from you and your family? Well, it really took its toll on my on
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her mom. Yeah. It devastated her and we didn't live there much longer after that.
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It was the innocence that was lost in that whole area. Nothing even remotely close to this had ever happened to
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anyone in our uh in our community. In our community. Yeah. It was just so far out of the realm of
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normal experience that to be honest it never occurred to me that it could happen to me
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just because it was so strange and foreign. Yeah. Unfortunately, in in those 70s,
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people looked upon those type of things differently than they do now. You know, the as far as getting counseling and
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that type of thing. It was just wasn't something you talked about back then. You just sort of tried to forget about
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it and move ahead with your life. And that's I think that's what my mother was trying
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to do is just try and forget about the hor whole ordeal. and uh she she she moved away from the area.
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Must have been agonizing. Well, you know, it myself I can only speak to how I felt at the time and it
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didn't really dawn on me. It wasn't until I was probably in my 20s that uh that I knew that, you know, I wanted
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some answers really. You know, obviously I knew what had happened, but I didn't know the scope of it.
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and how it would really affect me later on at the time. Emotionally, it was a just a very unusual thing to have
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happen. And and uh you got to just forge ahead, make it make your way through and
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move on to the next phase of your life. And and uh both of us have reflected back as adults thinking like, "Wow, how
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did we how did we even get through that?" Yeah. Some satisfaction there. It is in some small part.
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And uh thank God that evidence was preserved the way it was all these years. The RCMP did a fantastic job in
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those days and what they had. It was amazing. Just simply amazing how it all transpired.