Please Help Locate Janice Cher Desjarlais

Janice Cher Desjarlais
Alias: Jazz / Jazzy
Case reference: 2014005499
Missing since: October 1, 2010
Missing from: Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Year of birth: 1974
Age at disappearance: 35 years
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Indigenous
Eye Color: Brown
Hair: Black, Long
Height: 168cm / 5ft 6in
Weight: 109 kgs / 240 lbs
Physical Build: Heavy
Notable: Janice has a tattoo of a scorpion on her right leg
Janice was last seen wearing: A black jacket with a panther logo on the back & black pants
Details about Janice’s case: On the morning of Janice’s disappearance, she and her boyfriend climbed into a dumpster behind the Center of Hope on Franklin Avenue. Both of them were houseless and intended to sleep in the dumpster.

Janice’s boyfriend left at around 7:30am to get breakfast at a nearby McDonald’s restaurant. At 8:22am, the dumpster was picked up by a garbage truck and had its contents emptied into the back of the truck. Janice’s boyfriend returned at 8:30am. He searched the area and places she frequented before he concluded that the dumpster was emptied while Janice was still inside.

Janice was reported missing two days later. Video surveillance footage confirmed that Janice’s boyfriend left the dumpster, but she never did and nobody else was seen getting into or getting out of the dumpster. A landfill was excavated and searched for nine days, but Janice was never found. Police searched the area a size of a football field and two meters deep.

Police have stated that they do not believe that Janice’s disappearance is suspicious in nature.

To date, Janice has not been located.

If you have information on Janice’s case, please contact any of the following:
Wood Buffalo RCMP: 780-788-4040
Reference Case#: 20101221217

Crime Stoppers: 1-800-222-TIPS(8477)
Online at: https://www.canadiancrimestoppers.org/tips
Crime Stoppers provides anonymous tipping

Send email to the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains at: canadasmissing-disparuscanada@rcmp-grc.gc.ca

Sources:
Canada’s Missing
Doe Network
Edmonton Journal
CBC’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Database
International Missing Persons Wiki