Search resumes for missing Yellowknife woman

The family of Angela Meyer, a 22-year-old Yellowknife woman who has been missing for over four months, are resuming the search for her, while local RCMP say they will start their own search later this spring.

Meyer has not been seen since Nov. 27, when she stepped outside her family's Yellowknife home to smoke a cigarette. Numerous search efforts by police, her family and volunteers have yielded no sign of her to date.

"We've had a couple of important birthdays that went by — my wife's birthday and my birthday, and my son's birthday's pretty soon — and we never got anything," Dean Meyer, Angela's father, told CBC News on Friday.

Meyer, who has schizophrenia and Type 2 diabetes, was home on a weekend pass from Stanton Territorial Hospital's psychiatric ward when she disappeared.

Dean Meyer said he and some of his friends searched near the woods near Ptarmigan Road over the weekend, but they found no sign of Angela.

Hoping for warmer weather

After the RCMP's official search was called off in December, Meyer's family organized a ground search in January, but deep snow hampered volunteers' efforts.

Now that spring has arrived — meaning milder temperatures, more daylight hours and less snow — Dean Meyer said he will continue actively looking for his daughter.

"There is still lots of snow up on the rocks and especially in the bush. The snow has dropped but ... it's made a hard crust and made for hard walking in the bush," the elder Meyer said.

"I'm hoping for warmer weather so I can get out walking around again."

RCMP say they plan to resume their search for Meyer later this spring.

"We are looking at doing another search, possibly in May or as soon as the snow has melted enough that we can get another police dog out and get Yellowknife Search and Rescue out to help us," said Const. Kathy Law.

Law said people in Yellowknife should contact RCMP or Crime Stoppers if they see anything suspicious in wooded areas around the city.