MISSING: Ryan Shtuka
When a young man vanishes in a small resort town, the question is: does someone know something, or does no one know anything?
Map showing the Burfield party house and Ryan’s house
Photo obtain from Google Maps
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If you have any information about the disappearance of Ryan Shtuka, please call the Kamloops RCMP at 1-250-828-3000, or if you want to remain anonymous, you can call Kamloops Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477, or visit their website.
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Episode Source Material
- Kamloops This Week: Search on for man who vanished after attending Sun Peaks party, by Kamloops This Week
- Sun Peaks Independent News: KSAR search extends into afternoon for missing resident, by Nikki Fredrikson
- CBC: Kamloops Search and Rescue end hunt for Sun Peaks man, by Jenifer Norwell
- Sun Peaks Independent News: Third day of search for Ryan Shtuka by family, friends and RCMP, by Jean Strong
- Castanet: Desperate to find son, by Alanna Kelly
- CBC: ‘I wish I knew’: Alberta mother desperate to find son missing in Sun Peaks, by Wallis Snowdon
- CBC: Sun Peaks bands together to find missing 20-year-old man, by Courtney Dickson
- Salmon Arm Observer: Search for Ryan Shtuka goes on, by Martha Wickett
- Kamloops Now: UPDATE: #FindRyanShtuka reward increased to $15K, by Jessica Klymchuk
- Sun Peaks Independent News: New search location ‘real possibility’, by Jean Strong
- Sun Peaks Independent News: Family continues to search as snow melts, by Jean Strong
- Sun Peaks Independent News: Search for Shtuka passes 12 weeks, by Jean Strong
- Kamloops This Week: KSAR returns to Sun Peaks to search for Ryan Shtuka, by Michael Potestio
- Sun Peaks Independent News: Shtuka family makes plans to return home, by Jean Strong
- CBC: The weight of silence: Ryan Shtuka’s disappearance continues to haunt B.C. ski resort, by Shelley Joyce, Courtney Dickson
- Sun Peaks Independent News: A year without answers, by Jean Strong
- Kamloops This Week: One year later, Ryan Shtuka’s disappearance remains a mystery, by Michael Potestio
- Empire Advance: Without a trace, by Joel Barde
- Peaks and Valleys: The Search for Ryan Shtuka
- Info News: Family of Ryan Shtuka geared up for last Sun Peaks search of 2019, by Karen Edwards
- The Missing and Unexplained (Podcast): Ryan Shtuka (episodes 1-4)
- Nanaimo News Bulletin: Tip on missing man prompts search of new areas on B.C. mountain, by Jodi Brak
- InfoNews: New timeline leads to expanded search area for Ryan Shtuka, by Ashley Legassic
- MISSING: Ryan Shtuka website
- Strange Outdoors: The unsolved disappearance of Ryan Shtuka in Sun Peaks
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