A household name she is not, but for many in Vancouver, especially its North Shore region and surrounding islands, Jodi Henrickson will certainly ring a bell.
Henrickson was a 17-year-old girl from Squamish who went missing after a house party on Bowen Island, during the then unusually warm summer of 2009.
She was last seen with her ex-boyfriend, a man two years older who had a court order prohibiting him from being in her company. While a person of interest at the time, there was no conclusive evidence to link him to her disappearance. Her body has never been found. Two missing person posters, depicting a teenage Jodi with side-swept brunette hair, are still tacked to the walls of the island’s RCMP detachment.
Jodi Henrickson was also, says filmmaker Jenni Baynham, a family-oriented social butterfly who was popular in school. She was bubbly, and funny, with a “colourful personality.” She …