The Prince Albert Police Service Historical Crimes and Missing Persons Unit (HCMPU) is once again requesting public assistance in locating missing person Happy Charles.
It has been nine years since Happy Charles was last seen on video surveillance on April 3, 2017.
The Prince Albert Police Service has since released that video surveillance and explored multiple leads and more than 100 tips.
To this day, Happy Charles has still not been located and is considered missing.
Happy Charles was last seen on video surveillance on April 3, 2017 at approximately 11:50 p.m. at Prince Albert Collegiate Institute.
Happy was wearing white shoes, sweat pants, a long dark jacket over top of a leather jacket, a dark baseball cap, with a black backpack and a white plastic bag.
She was also wearing dark framed glasses. Happy is described as female, 5’1, approximately 115 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair.
The Prince Albert Police Service is sharing a video to the media and to the public with a message from Happy’s parents and a member of our Criminal Investigations Division, who both continue to search for Happy to this day.
The Prince Albert Police Service continues to actively investigate and search for Happy and is once again asking anyone with information on the whereabouts of Happy Charles to contact police a 306-953-4222.
Anonymous tips can also be provided to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at https://www.p3tips.com/TipForm.aspx?ID=206&C=&T=.
Your information could help bring Happy home.
Today is the one-year anniversary since the disappearance of Happy Charles.
The 43-year-old woman from La Ronge was last seen in Prince Albert on April 3, 2017.
Surveillance video indicates she had been in the area of PACI High School on 20th Street West. A number of ground searches have been conducted in Prince Albert and the surrounding area by volunteers.
Officials with Prince Albert police say the investigation in ongoing, with officers continuing to follow up on leads.
Other units have also been involved, including RCMP police dog services, the Saskatoon Police Service Air Support Unit, the RCMP Truth Verification Unit and the RCMP Forensic Video Analysis Unit.
The Happy Charles case has also been added to Canada’s missing person website.
Anyone with information on the disappearance of Happy Charles is asked to contact Prince Albert police or Crime Stoppers.
(PHOTO: Happy Charles. Photo courtesy of Prince Albert police.)