Claudette Priscilla June Osborne
Claudette Priscilla June Osborne-Tyo was a 21-year-old mother of four when she vanished from Selkirk Avenue and King Street in Winnipeg on July 25, 2008. Project Devote is investigating the missing persons case. Bernadette Smith, Osborne’s sister, speaks to officers once a month, but the family has learned no new information since 2010, when the Winnipeg Police Service was handling the case.
Matthew Bushby and his fiancée Claudette Osborne-Tyo were shocked when their second child together was born. That was July 10, 2008. Fifteen days later, Osborne disappeared.
Tracing her last steps is excruciating for Bushby and the rest of Osborne's family: On July 24, 2008 she left a message for her sister, Tina Osborne. In the message, Osborne said she needed a ride home because she was in bad company.Tina didn't hear it until two days later, when she added minutes to her cell phone.
The first Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) press release on Osborne circulated almost two weeks after she went missing. The WPS reported Winnipeg's Selkirk Avenue and Charles Street, an inner-city area known to sex-trade workers, was the last place she was seen.On May 12, 2009, nine months after the WPS's initial report, police said Osborne was actually last seen at the Lincoln Motor Hotel on McPhillips Street.Finally, more than two years after she vanished, the WPS said Osborne moved from the hotel to the corner of Selkirk Avenue and King Street before she was seen for the last time. According to Bushby, police traced Osborne's calling card and discovered she was at Selkirk Avenue and King Street, using a pay phone around 6:30 a.m. on July 25, 2008.In July 2012, Project Devote, a task force dedicated to investigating missing and murdered persons cases in Manitoba, took on Osborne’s case.
Despite internal struggle and addiction, Osborne was always smiling. She was working on staying sober at the Behaviour Health Foundation in Winnipeg, and at one time Osborne was drug and alcohol-free for 15 months
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Matthew Bushby and his fiancée Claudette Osborne-Tyo were shocked when their second child together was born. That was July 10, 2008. Fifteen days later, Osborne disappeared.
Tracing her last steps is excruciating for Bushby and the rest of Osborne's family: On July 24, 2008 she left a message for her sister, Tina Osborne. In the message, Osborne said she needed a ride home because she was in bad company.Tina didn't hear it until two days later, when she added minutes to her cell phone.
The first Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) press release on Osborne circulated almost two weeks after she went missing. The WPS reported Winnipeg's Selkirk Avenue and Charles Street, an inner-city area known to sex-trade workers, was the last place she was seen.On May 12, 2009, nine months after the WPS's initial report, police said Osborne was actually last seen at the Lincoln Motor Hotel on McPhillips Street.Finally, more than two years after she vanished, the WPS said Osborne moved from the hotel to the corner of Selkirk Avenue and King Street before she was seen for the last time. According to Bushby, police traced Osborne's calling card and discovered she was at Selkirk Avenue and King Street, using a pay phone around 6:30 a.m. on July 25, 2008.In July 2012, Project Devote, a task force dedicated to investigating missing and murdered persons cases in Manitoba, took on Osborne’s case.
Despite internal struggle and addiction, Osborne was always smiling. She was working on staying sober at the Behaviour Health Foundation in Winnipeg, and at one time Osborne was drug and alcohol-free for 15 months
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