Taken (Season 3)

In the first episode we share the story of Tina Fontaine a 15-year-old girl whose body was pulled from the Red River in Winnipeg in August 2014 sparking international attention and shining a spotlight on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Women have been assaulted gone missing and been murdered along British Columbia?s Highway 16 for decades. Alberta Williams and Ramona Wilson are two women whose only mistake was getting into the wrong vehicle on the Highway of Tears.

Like many other women Danielle LaRue and Ashley Machiskinic were victims of Vancouver?s Downtown East Side. Ashley?s death was deemed a suicide. A murderer anonymously confessed to Danielle?s death.

Marie Jeanne Kreiser?s family was looking forward to seeing her for Thanksgiving 1987 in Slave Lake Alberta. She never arrived. Though her family knows Marie Jeanne?s case may never be solved they want the world to know who she truly was.

Emily Osmond was 78 years old when she was last seen by her nephew on her property on the outskirts of Kawacatoose First Nation Saskatchewan in September 2007. Her family believes she was taken because Emily's beloved dogs were abandoned and she told no one she was leaving.

In 2009 17-year-old Cherisse Houle?s body was found near Sturgeon Creek in rural Manitoba. Cherisse was a vulnerable teenager whose life was plagued by recurring drug use and sexual exploitation. She was a mother herself trying to better her life.

In the late summer of 2010 20-year-old Amber Guiboche was seen getting into a red truck with a lone male occupant in Winnipeg Manitoba and was never seen again. Her family had already been torn apart by the suicide of their mother.

Claudette Osborne-Tyo was 21-years-old when she was last seen in Winnipeg in 2008. The mother of four children Claudette was abused as a child and struggled with drug addiction. Her family loved her very much and have become some of the most powerful advocates and leaders in the support of MMIWG.

17-year-old Fonassa Bruyere?s family got the sense from Fonassa that she might be in danger. When she went missing from the corner of Selkirk Avenue and Charles Street in Winnipeg they never saw her alive again.

Tanya Nepinak?s disappearance and presumed murder are one of many in a long series of unsolved violent deaths in her family. Tanya?s children have been deeply affected and many of those who love her have become advocates for the MMIWG.

Sandra Johnson Sandra Johnson was a pow wow princess from a loving family on the Seine River First Nation. In Thunder Bay Ontario on the morning of February 13 1992 18-year-old Sandra Johnson's naked body was found murdered. There are many theories as to who could have committed the crime.

Shannon Alexander Maniwaki and Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation in Quebec are neighbouring communities. It was from there in 2008 that best friends Maisy Odjick and Shannon Alexander vanished without a single clue.

On Mother's Day May 10 2009 Tanya Brooks had final telephone conversations with her family. It would be the last time they would ever speak with her again.