Amber Manthorne: Ex-boyfriend a person of interest in missing woman case [Video]

Mounties have released startling new details about their investigation into the disappearance of Amber Manthorne, who was reported missing on Vancouver Island more than two years ago, and is believed to have met with foul play.

“She’s not likely to be found alive,” Const. Beth O’Connor of the Port Alberni RCMP said bluntly in a news conference Wednesday, where investigators released a surveillance video taken from a gas station in the Port Alberni area shortly after the 40-year-old woman was reported missing on July 7, 2022.

Manthorne’s vehicle, a white 2021 Jeep Compass, was found abandoned on the side of a rural road south of Nanaimo two days later.

The missing woman was initially believed to be in the company of Justin Hall, an ex-boyfriend, whom she had told friends she was going to meet with on the day she vanished.

Hall was later located by police who determined Manthorne …