Pamela Jones: 10 Years Gone

 

Happy Birthday Mom, I miss you terribly. I try very hard to make you proud of me every single day, I will never stop fighting for your justice; I love you!!! Today would have been my mom's 83rd birthday; I am quite sure she would have made it to this milestone no problem, her killer had other ideas!!! My birthday wish for Mom, is Justice and closure."

 December 9, 2021 -- Lance Jones

Ten years ago, Pamela Jones was murdered in cold blood in her car port in Salmon Arm, B.C. The former school teacher was known by nearly everyone in this town of 17,000 but to date no one knows who left the senior to die alone.

The police have never told the family how she died. Her son, Lance Jones, was denied access to the medical examiner's report, and says he's been kept in the dark and basically told to keep his mouth shut.

He now lives in Calgary, Alberta. Every day, he does 100 push ups in his mother's memory; so far he had done 59,000 push ups.

He also runs the Pamela Jones Foundation to raise awareness about the epidemic of murdered and missing individuals in Canada.

"If I were to come to a point at the end of my life and I didn't have answers it would not be because I didn't fight for them every single day," he wrote to me this week after hearing about an arrest in the Ashley Simpson case and the discovery of her body.

"I lost my little brother at 39-years-old two years ago from a Fentanyl over dose. That was likely caused by grief," he said. He is hopeful after hearing of Ashley's discovery, but remains despondent.

"I have literally lost the last 10 years of my life to anguish and grief," he said. "They were the best 10 years of my life lost. Meanwhile the killer got to live the best 10 years of their life free. The killer should pay for that."

Ashley was missing for almost six years. Caitlin Potts, Deanna Wertz and Nicole Bell are still missing. 

"I think it's great that Ashley's been found," says Jane Aubertin, the mother of Nicole. "There's hope for the rest of us that Caitlin is going to be found, Deanna is going to be found, Nicole is going to be found. There is hope."

And in the end, right now, that is all these poor families have.

Hope.