Vanessa was four years old when her mother, Gloria Levina Moody, was murdered. Her brother, Dan, was three. Gloria, who everyone called Lee, was from the Bella Coola reserve of the Nuxalk Nation. She was the second oldest of eight children.
This podcast is based on a story in Cold Case Canada: The Stories Behind the Province’s Most Intriguing Murder and Missing Person Cases
On October 23, 1969, Lee, her brother Dave and her parents left for Williams Lake.