Comments on: S4 E38 The Search for Brenda Byman

By: Misha Fashionista

Misha Fashionista — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:26:09 +0000

I cannot believe that this shy 12 year old girl had consensual sex with a 17 year old boy, when she wouldn’t even stay the night at her grandmother’s house. Give me a break. I do believe they or he raped her. However, I also cannot believe these boys were capable of disposing of her body to the point of never being found. I do think it’s possible that she ran off and was picked up by someone, but being that this area was barely populated, what are the odds that a stranger would be driving through there? I do not believe her father was involved. Makes zero sense. I definitely see why this has divided that community. Someone there knows something. Either she never left for the hike and something happened at Connie and Vivian’s house or she did go on the hike and was assaulted by the 17 year old and she ran off. Either way, the fact that none of those who were with her and polygraped ever spoke a word is telling! Usually, someone would say something incriminating at some point. It’s a very odd story.

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By: albertbyman

albertbyman — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 20:03:30 +0000

Do not agreed Brenda lost grew up there someone prevented her from being safe likely last person with her

By: Linda P

Linda P — Tue, 07 May 2024 16:38:16 +0000

In reply to Sharon Rooney. I agree, someone would have shared information.

By: Dianne

Dianne — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 02:21:09 +0000

In reply to Jen. I agree completely, I'm no psychic, but that does not ring true at all. If he had never said that, his whole story may have been more believable. The fact that he said it, tells me that he was concerned her body would be found and they would know she had been raped. Her body may have been taken by animals, but in my opinion, John is the guilty one.

By: Pat Ward

Pat Ward — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 23:20:14 +0000

In reply to Jen. I absolutely agree with you!

By: Tawny Kirton

Tawny Kirton — Mon, 08 May 2023 22:15:21 +0000

I grew up in Wilmer, right across from Henry cooper and right beside west side road. This has always been a heart break in our community and I will never forget this case and never stop wondering. We all have our own ideas on what happened. And this story doesn’t add up.

By: Mel

Mel — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 20:01:06 +0000

In reply to Carol Gordon. POLICE SEEK MASS MURDERER north of Mission, B.C., on July 12, 1964. The bodies of Donald Kchler, 19,. Redney Wiren, 19, and Tony Webster, 18, all of Surrey, B.C., were found. 1st. Page right hand side small article about murders in BC published in 1977

By: BPym

BPym — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 18:38:34 +0000

Eve, thank you for posting this. This is every parent’s nightmare. I live in another East Kootenay community, my own daughter is 12-1/2 now, starting high school in the fall, and I can see how easily a girl that age could go off with some slightly older kids and the worst happen – and how any of the three possible scenarios could easily apply (I think the thought of a child’s own father killing her is a bit farfetched, but who knows?). My heart goes out to her family, and especially to young Brenda herself.

By: Carol Gordon

Carol Gordon — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 17:18:44 +0000

I cannot help but think there are so many other missing young and not-so-young that disappeared in the vastness of B.C. and really, all over Canada. Parents and others lied because they didn’t want to get caught or blamed and/or knew nothing. I am quite certain, without obvious evidence and the primitive nature of Crime Scene forensics of the time, missing persons remained missing! Skeletal bodies might have turned up but due to how long they were exposed, unlikely to be identified.
Can you write something about the murder of three teens murdered by their camping mate – I knew one, Rodney Wiren, whom I knew as a delightful younger brother of a friend at Fleetwood School.

By: Sharon Rooney

Sharon Rooney — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 16:07:22 +0000

In reply to Jen. It would be hard to believe that the other 4 people never said a word to another soul about what they knew. You would think at least one would have felt guilty enough to confess or at least mention it. I think the story of the car door slamming etc is very plausible.

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 01:34:46 +0000

I’m really bothered by the assertion that a shy, 12 year old girl (in 1961 no less) would have ‘consensual’ sex with an older boy. I really think that has to be related to her disappearance, either a) the boy(s) sexually assaulted her and she was accidently killed in the process, b) the boy(s) sexually assaulted her, and she felt so much shame that she ran into the woods and died accidently somehow or c) her father or uncle came looking for her, found the act going on and overreacted.
Besides the obvious issue of being under the age of consent, I’m just not buying that there was an ongoing sexual relationship between her and this boy, no matter how he may try to frame it now.