A year later, no answers in search for Thelma Krull

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Family and members of Winnipeg police’s homicide unit will give an update this morning on the investigation into Thelma Krull’s disappearance.

Monday marks the one-year anniversary of the day the 58-year-old wife, mother and grandmother went missing, sparking numerous unsuccessful searches by both Winnipeg police and her family and friends.

At 11:30 a.m. police will give an update on the case at its headquarters.

Krull walked into the view of an area resident’s surveillance camera at 7:23:30 on July 11, 2015, and 14 seconds later she vanishes from the screen.

It marks the last moment Krull was seen after going for a walk from her home in Harbourview South.

Other than the video, which shows Krull walking through the residential neighbourhood by herself on a sunny weekend morning, the only other sign ever found of the woman after her disappearance was her glasses during a search near the Valley Gardens Community Centre.

Carver said while the investigation is being led by an officer from the homicide unit, Krull’s disappearance is officially a missing person’s case.

“The homicide unit was involved early because they have more resources than the missing person’s unit. But it is still a missing person case.”

Contacted at home, Krull’s husband, Bob, said both he and their daughter, Lisa Besser, will be at the press conference and didn’t want to speak about the anniversary before then.

The family has said when Krull left her home in Harbourview South she was just going on a walk and was to meet her husband at a Canadian Tire store later that morning. She had been hiking and power-walking for months, training to hike the 75-kilometre West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island with her brother later last summer.

But not only did Krull fail to meet her husband, she also didn’t pick up a birthday cake for her grandson — both things the family says were out of character for her.

According to the Facebook page created in honour of the missing woman, a gathering is taking place at 8:30 p.m. Monday at Kimberly HIll near Valley Gardens Community Centre.

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The Facebook site asks people to wear purple in honour of Krull.

Police have described Krull as Caucasian, 5-4, 170 pounds, with short dyed-blond hair with a purple streak. She was wearing hiking boots.

The family has also been selling safety whistles with Whistle for Thelma on them for $10 apiece. All net proceeds are to be donated on Monday to Child Find Manitoba in Krull’s name and more than $6,000 had been raised at last count. The whistles have been sold at Home Run Sports on Bishop Grandin Boulevard, the Millennium Library’s Transit Service Centre, and the Amalgamated Transit Union office.

Anyone with any information on Krull should call the Winnipeg Police Missing Persons Unit at 204-986-6250.

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Kevin Rollason
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Kevin Rollason is a general assignment reporter at the Free Press. He graduated from Western University with a Masters of Journalism in 1985 and worked at the Winnipeg Sun until 1988, when he joined the Free Press. He has served as the Free Press’s city hall and law courts reporter and has won several awards, including a National Newspaper Award. Read more about Kevin.

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