Taken

In the first episode of the season, Taken looks into Canada’s National Inquiry into its missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. At the heart of this episode is one young woman — Hillary Angel Wilson, who came from Norway House Cree Nation and was murdered in Winnipeg in August 2009.

On April 25, 2013, the lifeless body of 20-year-old Cheyenne Fox was found at the bottom of a Toronto high-rise. Earlier that day, multiple calls were made to 911 from a condo where Cheyenne was last seen alive — but when police arrived, it was too late.

In Campbellton, N.B. when Gladys Simon went for a walk on June 24, 2004 in Sugarloaf Park and did not return. Eight years later, her remains were found at a remote location in the park.

Throughout her short life, Angela Meyer wrestled with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia — with the help of her close family. However, both Angela and her family began to feel the strain of her deteriorating mental health. They were frustrated with the lack of resources available to them in the Northwest Territories. On November 27, 2010, Angela was at home on a weekend pass from the local hospital when she disappeared from the front steps of her parents’ home.

Delaine Copenace of Kenora, Ontario went on a fun trip to the mall with her sister on February 28, 2016. When she and her sister were separated and Delaine went missing, her family embarked on a search that involved the entire community. Tragically, Delaine’s body was found in Lake of the Woods on March 22, 2016.

It’s been over a decade since Danita Big Eagle, 22, went missing from Regina, Sask., leaving two children without a mother. Danita’s mother Dianne says she last saw her daughter on February 11, 2007. Was Danita taken by mysterious individuals, or could she have vanished from a party with friends?

Over the course of many years, the number of missing and murdered women and girls in British Columbia has grown, just as it has throughout Canada. 22-year-old Tamara Lynn Chipman was last seen near Prince Rupert on September 21, 2005. Belinda Williams was seen for the last time in British Columbia in 1977.

On July 11, 2007, 44-year-old Jacqueline Crazybull was stabbed by a group of men in an attack that seemed to be random. That same night, four other men and women of different ages and ethnicities were stabbed by the same group of men in separate incidents. They recovered from their injuries. Jacqueline did not.