In this video I present the case of the disappearance and death of 25 year old Alison Raspa from Whistler, British Columbia in 2017.
Alison was originally from Perth, Australia and she moved to Whistler in 2016 to work at the Westin Resort and enjoy the vast outdoor wilderness surrounding this beautiful mountain town.
She is described as being friendly and kind, and she was very athletic and active.
On November 22 of 2017 Alison went out drinking and socializing with friends at a bar in downtown Whistler. She had reportedly been quite distraught that night and she was intoxicated when she left the bar. She caught a bus around midnight to travel back to her accommodations, and she was dropped off about an hour later near Highway 99 and Lake Placid Road. Around 1:15 AM that morning she sent a text to her friend saying that she was lost. This was the last time anyone heard from Alison.
When she didn't show up for work, her friends contacted the RCMP. Police pinged Alison's cellphone in the area of Alpha Lake Park and they started their efforts here. Alison's wallet and backpack were found in a field north of the lake, and a resident walking through the area the morning Alison went missing found her coat in the same area as her wallet and backpack. Her cellphone was also separately located in the park soon after. The official search lasted for 2 weeks and it was intensive and thorough. Hundreds of police, search and rescue and civilian ground searchers scoured the area around the park, and a helicopter was utilized to search from above. Divers equipped with sonar did 2 separate searches of Alpha Lake, which is a relatively small body of water.
Alison's family flew from Australia to Whistler and they continued looking for her long after the official search was terminated.
There were no leads in the case until the following year. Around 7:30 PM on March 16, 2018 a resident walking in the northern end of Alpha Lake Park saw a body in the lake and contacted authorities. RCMP and the Whistler Fire Department removed Alison Raspa's partially frozen body from the water. Police said that they could not determine the cause of death but that foul play was not suspected.
The official coroners report didn't come out until March 2020, 2 full years after Alison's body was found. I could not find an official cause of death listed, but it was suggested that Alison took her own life and that alcohol played a role.
It is unusual that Alison's body was not located during the initial search, had it been in the lake the whole time? Alpha Lake is very small, and professional divers equipped with sonar technology did an intensive search of the lake - twice.
Many people do not believe Alison took her own life that night, but there is limited information available on this case.
Ultimately just a very sad story, and my heart goes out to Alison's family and friends. I can only imagine what it would be like to go through something like that.
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