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Psalm 71:17 (NLT) - O God, You have taught me from my earliest childhood, and I constantly tell others about the wonderful things You do.

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Mickey Mouse: (Partially) Public Property

Mickey Mouse is always in the news, but in recent weeks that truth has stepped up a notch in light of a timely development: as of today, the earliest versions of Mickey have lapsed into the public domain. As it had happens, nearly all of the headlines, and consequently all of the chatter have been misleading. Most of it has implied, or outright claimed, that the famous character (so jealously…

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Case File Theories

Kidnapped/Murdered By A Stranger?

Could Tamra have been kidnapped and/or murdered by someone outside of her inner circle? Maybe.

The police did question numerous sex offenders in the area, but came up empty handed. Could one of them have discovered the unlocked backdoor, entered the home, and kidnapped Tamra? This is possible, I suppose, but there was plenty of activity happening in the house that evening, and the perpetrator would have needed to time their crime of opportunity perfectly.

Lorena holds fast to this theory, believing that someone “stole” Tamra because she was so smart, like a “little Einstein.” I don’t think this is a very probable scenario, but I cannot blame a distraught mother for wanting to think that her daughter is alive and well somewhere.

At least one tip that the Regina Police Service investigated indicated that a stranger may have been involved in Tamra’s disappearance. An anonymous man with the user name MySecretIsOut posted a crudely drawn map indicating Tamra’s location on Reddit (the map has since been taken down but is widely available online). The map suggests that Tamra’s remains can be located on the Muscowpetung Saulteaux First Nation reserve. Also, the map says to “check the wells” for Tamra. The investigators did just that, but no evidence of Tamra was found. Later, it was determined that the Reddit user found the map amongst his grandmother’s possessions after she died. She had told people that her sister had given her the map, after making it “based on visits to someone in a prison out that way.” The grandma, though, suffered from dementia, which I think seriously calls the map’s validity into question.

Map to Tamra’s remains

Tamra Keepness Reddit Map

Source: Panow.com

Kidnapped/Murdered By Someone She Knew

Was Tamra kidnapped and/or murdered by someone close to her? Many people think that this is the likely explanation for her disappearance.

Soon after Tamra vanished, the police turned their focus on her family and their friends. Lorena told the media that the police repeatedly questioned her and Dean, and even interviewed the children. Lorena and Dean don’t like discussing the police investigation. Instead, they like to focus on the possibility that Tamra could be alive. Both Lorena and Dean deny any knowledge of what happened to Tamra.

There is no question that Tamra’s home life was unstable. Lorena and Dean struggle with alcohol and drug addiction, and several of Tamra’s siblings are now in provincial care. Tamra’s home life was also especially violent. When Tamra vanished, Dean had recently been released from prison after serving a “three-month sentence for beating Lorena in a drunken rage.” Additionally, Dean spent six months in jail for his assault on Russell on the night of Tamra’s disappearance.

Lorena Keepness and Dean McArthur

Photo of Lorena Keepness and Dean McArthur👇🏾

Source: CBC News

Lorena is the first to admit that her life choices have not been ideal. However, Lorena, like many Aboriginal persons in Canada, struggle with numerous issues that have been passed down through the generations. Lorena is a residential school survivor, as was her mother before her. She grew up in a dysfunctional, abusive home and had to forage for food in neighbourhood gardens to survive. Lorena struggles with substance abuse and fell into sex work after Tamra vanished.

According to the Saskatchewan Association of Chiefs of Police, nearly 59% of the province’s missing women and girls are of Aboriginal ancestry. Tamra’s case is another heartbreaking example of the hundreds of instances of missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls in Canada. Although Aboriginal women comprise only 4% on the Canadian total population, they “make up 16% of female homicide victims and 11% of missing women.”

Regardless of the reasons for it, I can’t help but wonder if Tamra’s unstable home life played a role in her disappearance. When the police investigated, they said they found “no signs of forced entry or struggle at the home.” I think this makes it improbable that she was taken by a stranger. And could Dean and Russell really have had a brawl within whispering distance of the children sleeping in the living room without waking them? I just don’t know. There are lots of unanswered questions about that night. I fear that someone in Tamra’s inner circle could be responsible for her disappearance. Hopefully one day we find out.

What do you think happened to Tamra?

Tamra’s loved ones refuse to give up on their little girl, holding vigils and events honouring her memory and trying to get the case some much-needed media attention.

The Regina Police Service has investigated over 1700 leads and interviewed over 500 leads during their search for Tamra. Police Chief Troy Hagen is “cautiously optimistic,” holding out hope that police will someday solve the case.

The police doubled the reward for information about Tamra’s whereabouts to $50,000 in 2014. Anyone with information regarding Tamra is asked to contact the Regina Police Service at 306-777-6500, or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

[rvexillology]

Earliest flag of the Soviet Union (Russian SSR)

from /r/vexillology Top comment: The title is quite misleading, as this is actually the second historically recorded flag of the Russian SFSR, not the Soviet Union.

[thinkingimages]

19th Century astrophotograph. Person holding one of the earliest known astrophotographs. This glass plate with an image of the Moon was taken in the 1840s and is from the Harvard College Observatory Astronomical Plate Stacks, USA.

© BABAK TAFRESHI, TWAN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Media ID 9341677

(1840, 1840s, astrophotograph, astrophotography, earliest, glass plate, harvard college observatory astronomical plate stacks)

[smilingperformer]

Finished with SM030, which right now is my sis’ fav episode :) I’m not surprised, considering how she really enjoys Lilie!

[welcometoyouredoom]

This is the name of possibly the earliest-living historical person we know by name,  Iry-Hor a pharaoh of Upper Egypt who reigned during the early 32nd century BCE.

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

It is just the literature that we read for 'amusement' or 'purely for pleasure' that may have the greatest, least suspected, earliest influence on us.

T.S. Eliot, Essays Ancient and Modern