With more than one year having passed since the body of Bobbie Lynn Moose was found in a grassy lot on Nelson Road in Thompson on Oct. 17, 2019, RCMP are once again appealing for more information about how she spent the last few weeks before her death in an effort to find out who killed her.
Moose, aged, 29, left behind two children, two brothers, six sisters and 18 nieces and nephews when she was killed a few weeks after being dropped off in Thompson by a family member on Oct. 1 of last year, failing to live up to the words she always used when parting from her family - “Don’t worry about me. I’ll be back.”
“By putting out her photograph again and reminding people agains that Bobbie was a person that was cared for deeply by her family I’m trying to get people to remember her and spark their memories about that period of time,” said Cpl. Morgan Page of the Manitoba RCMP Major Crime Unit in an interview with the Thompson Citizen Oct. 19. “My hope was that by sharing a bit about Bobbie we might generate renewed interest and also further information about her time in Thompson in the days leading up to her death.”
Page and other Major Crime Unit investigators were in Thompson last week to follow up on tips and information that had come forward but police still need to know more about what Moose was doing between the time she arrived in Thompson and when her body was found.
“Sometimes what might be important to me might not necessarily mean anything to the person whose memory it is but any little thing could help us and direct us in our investigation to help bring closure to her family,” Page said.
Because Moose did not have a residence in Thompson, police believe she may have been in contact with other transient residents.
“Part of the circumstances of this investigation that have made it different than some others is that Bobbie was pretty transient,” Page says. "She lived between Thompson and Nelson House. There is a community there that does that regularly travels between Thompson and their home communities. We have to make an effort to reach all those people.”
Despite a significant effort to get the word out in the days and weeks following Moose’s death – including more than 300 interviews, and watching more than 52,000 hours of surveillance video as well as going door to door in Thompson seeking out more information – RCMP are still missing vital information to point them in the direction of her killer or killers.
“We have put the message out quite effectively … but I do believe there is somebody out there that has the piece of the puzzle that we are looking for that might be able to assist us and find out the truth about what happened to Bobbie,” Page says.
Anyone with information on Moose’s death or her whereabouts and activities in the weeks leading up to her death can contact the Thompson RCMP detachment at 204-677-6909 or Manitoba Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. Tips can also be submitted online at www.manitobacrimestoppers.com.
