MISSING: Mekayla Bali
16-year-old Mekayla Bali vanished from a bus depot in her hometown of Yorkton, Saskatchewan in 2016, leaving no trace and no clues as to where she might be now – or why.
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Episode Source Material
- Global News: Still searching: The disappearance of Mekayla Bali, By Marney Blunt.
- NBC News: Police looking for break on two-year anniversary of Canadian teen Mekayla Bali’s disappearance, by Juliet Muir.
- CBC News: I need help, by ALICIA BRIDGES and VICTORIA DINH.
- 650 CKOM: A family’s agonizing search for missing Yorkton girl Mekayla Bali.
- CTV News Regina: ‘She was a homebody’: Six years following Mekayla Bali’s disappearance, family increases reward, by Brady Lang.
- Global News: ‘I feel that I have failed you’: mother asks for help finding Mekayla Bali, By Alex Huffman.
- CTV Regina: Yorkton RCMP say missing teen may be in Regina or Saskatoon area.
- Missing in Canada blog: Map of Mekayla Bali’s movements.
- RCMP News release: Missing: Mekayla Bali.
- CBC News: Watch as Mekayla Bali seemingly takes apart her phone and puts it back together at the Tim Horton’s/Wendy’s in Yorkton, Sask.
- Let’s Bring Mekayla Bali Home Facebook Page.
- CTV Regina: RCMP releases new surveillance video in Mekayla Bali’s disappearance.
- The Leader-Post (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada): Mother makes tearful plea to missing team, by Brian Fitzpatrick.
- The Leader-Post (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada): Recent searches in Mekayla Bali case find no clues, by Austin M. Davis.
- RCMP: US and Canadian Law Enforcement Unveil New Homeward Bound Trucks Featuring Mekayla Bali – Missing Since April, 2016 (news release).
- The Leader-Post (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada): Two years of anguish as Mekayla Bali’s family waits for answers, by Pamela Cowan.
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