Episode Summary
When Christina Calayca disappeared on a camping trip in Ontario, Canada, in 2007, investigators expected to find her in a few short hours. But despite numerous search efforts, no sign of her was ever found. And 16 years later, her family is still searching for answers.
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Episode Info
If you know anything about Christina’s whereabouts, please contact them at 888-310-1122 or go online to OPP.CA and click the Contact link.
Christina Calayca
A map of Rainbow Falls Provincial Park.
A more detailed map of the main campgrounds at Rainbow Falls Provincial Park.
Christina’s mother, Elizabeth, holding on to a portrait of her missing daughter.
Christina Calayca
Episode Source Material
- City News (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Worry Grows For Missing Toronto Woman, by News Staff.
- Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Family fears for missing Toronto woman, by Adrian Ma.
- Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): No clues about missing Toronto woman, by Tamsyn Burgmann.
- Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Footprint may be from missing woman, by San Grewal.
- The Chronicle Journal (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada): Family confident missing woman will be found, by Carl Clutchey.
- National Post (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): OPP encouraged woman will be found, by Katie Rook.
- The Chronicle Journal (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada): Civilians offer help in search for woman, by Carl Clutchey.
- City News (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Vigil Planned For Missing Woman While Search Continues, by News Staff.
- Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Family unable to join search, by Justin Piercy.
- The Chronicle Journal (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada): Search for Christina Calayca continues, by The Chronicle-Journal.
- City News (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Mother Of Missing Woman Believes She’s Still Alive As Week-Long Search Continues, by News Staff.
- Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Divers join search for missing jogger, by Jen Gerson.
- City News (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Father Joins Search For Missing Daughter, by News Staff.
- The Chronicle Journal (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada): Mom confident daughter just ‘waiting for help’, by Carl Clutchey.
- The Chronicle Journal (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada): Search goes on, by Carl Clutchey.
- The Chronicle Journal (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada): Searchers committed to finding woman, by Carl Clutchey.
- CBC (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada): Family, friends hold vigil for missing Toronto woman, by CBC News.
- The Chronicle Journal (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada): Christina’s mom hopes and waits, by Carl Clutchey.
- Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Search for Calayca continues on weekend.
- The Chronicle Journal (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada): Calayca search continues, by The Chronicle-Journal.
- CBC (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada): Hope fades in search for missing Toronto woman, by CBC News.
- City News (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Still No Sign Of Woman Who Went Missing At Rainbow Falls Provincial Park, by News Staff.
- CTV News (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): OPP call off search for missing Toronto woman.
- The Chronicle Journal (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada): Search for woman called off, by Sarah Elizabeth Brown.
- CTV News (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Calayca’s mother believes daughter was abducted, by CTV.ca News Staff.
- The Chronicle Journal (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada): Hunters may conduct informal search for Calayca, by The Chronicle-Journal.
- CTV (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Family to hold vigil where T.O. jogger disappeared.
- City News (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Family Of Missing Woman Heads North For One More Search, by News Staff.
- CBC (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada): OPP calls off resumption of search for Toronto woman, by CBC News.
- City News (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Family Of Missing Toronto Woman Holding Fundraiser For New Search, by News Staff.
- National Post (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Family holds hope for missing woman, by Zosia Bielski.
- Explore Magazine (Canada): Disappearance at rainbow falls, by Kate Barker.
- CBC (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada): Family plans private search for missing Toronto woman, by CBC News.
- CBC (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada): Search to resume in late spring for missing Toronto woman, by CBC News.
- The Chronicle Journal (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada): Cliffs focus of search for woman, by Carl Clutchey.
- National Post (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): “You never lose hope’, by Diana Mehta.
- Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Mother still searching for missing daughter, by Nicole Baute.
- The Chronicle Journal (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada): Hopes dashed in Calayca search , by Carl Clutchey.
- Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Search for camper fails to bring closure, by Nicole Baute.
- City News (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): She Truly Is In Heaven, Mom Says Of Missing Daughter, by News Staff.
- City News (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Family Of Missing T.O. Day Care Worker Launches One Last Effort To Find Out What Happened To Her, by News Staff.
- Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): A final search for Christina Calayca, by Nicole Baute.
- CTV News (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): One final search for T.O. woman missing since 2007, by ctvtonto.ca.
- CP 24 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Search resumes in “perfect conditions” for woman missing since 2007, by The Canadian Press.
- The Sault Star (Sault St. Marie, Ontario, Canada): No clues in searches for missing girls, by Don Peat and Chris Doucette.
- City News (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): No Trace Of Christina Calayca As OPP Scour Provincial Park, by News Staff.
- The Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada): Without a Trace, by Randy Boswell.
- National Post (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Two years after disappearance, mother still left with questions, by Matthew Coutts.
- Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Families of the missing: Grieve or keep looking?, by Raveena Aulakah.
- TB News Watch (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada): August 8, 2017: Body identified (video), by TBnewsWatch.com Staff.
- Elliot Lake Today (Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada): Lost, not found and what we can learn from it, by Bill Steer.