I think we should be able to check a box or something in social media saying "If I go missing, release my account to authorities". Maybe then it wouldn't take so long, it makes no sense

I think she willingly left with someone she met online but they kept her captive.

When my sister was 14 she disappeared, turned up 15 years later having ran to Mexico with a much older man. We grew up without our father, the man put her on a pedestal and groomed her in textbook fashion.

They need to put Sex Ed back in schools and include a safety part that talks about social media and how to protect yourself from strangers or dangerous event💁🏾‍♀️ once I become a teacher I am going to try my hardest to push for this because we are failing our children😔

Privacy laws should not pertain to minors when police need information.

the fact that you said tim hortons, giant tiger, and poutine all in the same video makes this just so very canadian

I think the detail that bothers me the most is that she bought herself a meal at the station just after she just withdrew her small amount of money. That one small detail really demonstrates how naive and poorly planned she was as a young girl heading into this whole situation and it absolutely breaks my heart. She really had no idea what she was in for which I can only assume wasn't good. :(

I’m concerned as to why she can come and go from school so easily.

Just a suggestion: you should put a small picture of the missing person throughout the entire video, so people can really remember the person. :-)

I believe she fell for an online predator. I hope and pray for her family she's still alive. God I hope she's ok

Just as a small update in case someone comes across this video still: - There are no news, a reported sighting (maybe several) have been proven as false - The reward has been officially cut in half, to 25.000, because the anonymous donor had to ask for the other 25.000 to be returned. I'm currently going through a lot of the old videos, seeing if anything new happened & it's quite devastating to see that in most nothing did happen. Even in the cases where you really expected it.

She wasn't planning on leaving forever, I also think she planned to meet this person during school hours and come back but something got messed up.

110% groomed by an older guy.. She had low self-esteem so when someone showed interest she would get excited. He is the one who would only talk to her on KIK because he had this planned out to a T. He knew they couldn't track his calls, he instructed her to get a bus ticket and probably transferred her money for it, and told her SHE needed to book the hotel (so his name wouldn't be on it) and clearly had everything set up and she fell into this sick POS's plan..

Sounds like someone mailed her a throw away phone. I think she was set up for her to be taken.

One thing we have to remember is that She had 2 phones in her possession. She was being groomed and wanted to keep who she was keeping in contact with a secret.

the fact that she sat at the bus station for two hours knowing she wouldn’t be back in time to be picked up from school makes me think she willingly wanted to run away

People always say they didnt take their makeup when girls go missing, but i (& all my friends) have enough makeup that i could take a few items i need & nobody would notice or think any of it was taken.

I think she was using the free wifi at Tim hortons to use the apps maybe?

I have one final question. Mekayla’s phone was turned off only at 06:something the next day. There was over a 12 hour period where she was known to be missing, but her phone had not yet been turned off. Where did it ping during those highly crucial hours??

The part where she took her phone apart and put it back together, she was probably swapping the SIM card and had a totally different phone number. I used to work in the phone industry and a lot of people would hide the additional sim where the battery is located or in the phone case. This also makes sense to me as to why they said her phone was completely shut off, it was probably when the other sim was inserted. If this is the case it would be possible for the phone service provider to find the phone number to the extra sim by searching the imei. Also the more I think about it the $55 cash she took out sure sounds like an initial payment for a prepaid phone carrier.

Kik is a creeps playground I had it briefly and the men on there are generally weirdos! This does not sound like a good situation.

I get a feeling that maybe Mekayla was telling her friends and the two students of going to Regina, Saskatoon, Moosejaw and prince Albert to throw everybody off once they end up finding out that she's missing. Maybe she kept mentioning those places so once they are looking for her, they can be looking in the wrong areas (if she ran away). She def planned what she was doing that day, but you're right Danelle, she could have met the wrong person(s) and now she could be in danger 😔 Whoever lured her to leave def. promised her something. Young teens are very vulnerable. Anything is a possibility.

To those wondering: Canadian high school students (grades 9-12) are allowed to leave school property during breaks. If a student doesn’t show up for a class or leaves during the class they don’t always call to inform a parent/guardian.

Imagine as a Mother not knowing what happened to your child the trauma would be immence

Mmm her taking apart her phone could be her switching the SIM card?

Thank you for covering this!!! I went to high school with her and I’ve been waiting for someone to do this ❤️

She was groomed by an older man and left with him. I have a feeling she's definitely alive.

mekayla got her second phone from that bouquet of roses. i found her mother’s page about her

She could've been using the wifi at Tim hortons. Usually text apps need wifi.

I went to high school with Mekayla. I agree with your theory of meeting a guy online, but he had bad intentions. Also he must be a smart man, making sure she left no trace, or told her friends about him. So sad.

Personally, I think she met someone online. She “fell in love” or something like that. She left willing with this person to go off and get married, but then this person abducted her.

I really like when you do Canadian cases because as a Canadian I feel as though they don't get as much coverage on youtube.

What if the backpack contained things for the person she was hoping to help. She was getting money for them and maybe she brought stuff for them as well. She didn’t bring stuff for herself because she wasn’t planning to be gone long.

She could keep going back into tim hortons to use their wifi, if she's using these apps to call people. Even if she had two phones, the one cell phone might not have had data so she needed the wifi to use the phone in general

She used to go to my school a few years before she went missing and I’m friends with her brother. Community still prays

It's truly terrifying to think that whoever took her did it in such a secretive and planned-out way that it's clear that it wasn't his first time, and neither would it be his last. TERRIFYING.

As a mother, I'm super upset about nobody at tim Hortons noticing her...If i was working and saq her come in, leave, come back, leave. Come back later....i would hope id notice and stop her. Question her, something. So sad for this family :(

So terrifying that preditors are able to use these aps to lure unsuspecting children into traps without any trace..

My whole life I wasn’t allowed social media. I’m honestly glad my parents didn’t let me have social media til I was 18. It’s a dangerous world. I hope she’ll be found and much prayers to her family!

Just two days ago there was a news report stating a man remembers meeting her outside a club in Edmonton!!!

I saw a comment saying her taking apart her phone could have been her switching out a SIM card and it reminded me of something. I’m in the UK so this could be entirely wrong but you can buy SIM cards here that you add credit to as you go instead of having a phone plan, not linked to a bank account. You could buy credit in most stores and you could do it with cash, essentially untraceable. It could be possible she had one of those SIMs she could have swapped it out and communication via that SIM would not show up on a statement or bill. The cash she had could have been used to buy credit. Like I said this is based on UK cell phones so it could be totally implausible in Canada.

Sadly, I think she met someone online and it went wrong. =(

She wouldn’t have stayed up practicing for a recital she had no intention of going to. She was definitely groomed.

The fact that Mekayla could be doing something right now is kinda crazy...

Ok...i know this is probably irrelevant but....the girl has two close friends who she ate lunch with and txted constantly, she had and ex boyfriend who she was close enough to, that he would txt her when she didn't show up to class and she had no issue approaching two people in the lunch room to chat, she was hardly an outcast at school...we need to teach our kids how to have a healthy perspective about everything in life. Anyway.....seems to me she was in fact being groomed for trafficking....i think the perp drove in from someplace and picked her up from the bus station....thats why she waited there almost 2 hours...she was instructed to wait...

I'm french Canadian and live not too far away from Saskatchewan, I can't believe I haven't heard her story until now. It goes to show how important what you're doing is. Keep it up!

Idk why but I really feel like she's alive and out there somewhere.

Why I always hear “vagina” instead of “Regina” 😂 joke aside.. I strongly hope the girl is okay and safe and I pray for the police to find her! Very sad.. 😿

Hey Danielle, I’m from Alberta Canada and unfortunately there is a lot of missing people here too there’s a lot of rumours going around about human trafficking... I have a feeling this might be one of them 😞

I think the account with no posts was formerly a self harm account and she left to meet with someone met through there who offered her emotional support that she believed her school friends wouldn’t be able to and the person wasn’t who she thought it was. I think police should look more into the instagram account and try to retrieve some old messages.

The fact her “holiday” destination changed all the time makes me believe she was potentially dating people online and depending on the location of the person, that’s where she was wanting to go

I really think the Tim Horton thing was about Wi-Fi.... I think she was groomed and the money/hotel, all of it, was more about "meeting" this person (in person) for the first time. I'm grateful we didn't have internet growing up because it's such an easy way to prey on young, impressionable people.... I pray she is found and the family can have peace.

I had a really crappy boyfriend in HS and right after. He was always out of town and then would call me needing cash, or a bus ticket or something crazy. I didn't want my family to know anything so I would be scrambling to get cash. Bank, pawn shops, loan places, friends. Her actions that day reminder me so much of going through that. I am certain someone was pressuring her that they really wanted to see her but needed money or a ticket to do it. I felt for her so much, it made me cry

It's entirely possible that the full bag was a prepared go-bag with things such as clothes, a spare charger, duplicate set of medication and make-up if this was something that was not spur of the moment thing, which it doesn't seem to be. There are many people who have go-bags just for being able to do a quick get-away. Just something to consider.

If the snaps were opened months later, were they not able to ping her phone since it was obviously turned back on for an amount of time for them to be opened?

Some tips for editing. When you talk about something specific, like bringing back up the security footage and the way "she moves" on it, show what you're specifically referring to to us. Visualization really helps keep the narrative flowing. Maybe even keeping a photo of Mekayla on the screen at all times except when you're showing footage etc. Basically, anything you talk about, try to provide the visual context :)

Do you think it's possible that she met someone, most likely online, who claimed to be down on their luck or homeless? Maybe they told her they were in a bind and needed help or a place to stay. Her friend stated that during their phone call, Mikayla was crying about needing help and feeling badly for someone. She also seems to have a very kind-hearted nature. Maybe she thought she'd get this person set up for a night or two and then head back to the school to be picked up. It's possible this person formed a rapport with her previously, whether that be on an app or possibly in person. She clearly didn't appear as though she was leaving for any lengthy period of time. If she was going to meet up with a love interest, you'd think she'd bring her makeup or something like that. Her friends and family didn't claim that she was dressed or dolled up any more than she was on a normal day. All people are different, but I'd speculate a teenage girl who was meeting up with someone they planned to spend the day with romantically would want to present at their very best; maybe that's ignorant of me, though. I don't think this girl was trying to run away; I think she was trying to help someone who claimed they needed it. I think this said person had nafarious intentions, and as a result, she disappeared. Just my thoughts.

if she had a backpack full of stuff and planned a get away why didn’t she take her makeup and medication?! What was in it? Also if there was money she was able to have access to and was planning a trip, why wouldn’t she take some?

My theory: she was gonna go meet up with one of the boys she met online and then the boy kidnapped her. The police knew who the father was so they def checked up on him. I dont think any person like her would disappear on purpose, she sounds like a very innocent girl and nobody would leave home forever with nothing.

In August of this year, there was a tip that she was in Edmonton, someone thinks they had talked with her. It sounds like she may have run away and the person she was talking to was someone that said would help her. I do hope that she is found, I think the authorities are looking into the tip mentioned in August.

Wow, I live in Alberta (which is the province next door to Saskatchewan) and I have never heard of this case! In my opinion, it’s pretty clear that she was being groomed by some internet predator and given that she had personal struggles and her self esteem was likely low, she was the perfect target. I don’t think she necessarily “ran away” but I think she probably thought that she was going to have a romantic adventure or maybe a life change but I highly doubt she expected to never see anyone again. My mind automatically goes to those horrific stories where people are kept prisoner for years and years but I think the more likely scenario is she was trafficked or...killed. I wouldn’t be surprised if she was taken out of Saskatchewan altogether because her “groomer” likely made her think they were going elsewhere so that it would be a red herring once people started looking for her. This is horrible. On a lighter note, this couldn’t be more Canadian with the fact she kept hanging out at Tim Hortons and she ordered poutine 🇨🇦.

Just sayin: ANYONE can call a department/police station & ask about a case. Imagine if even only 100 of us all called one police station (Meridian) about the same case (christian). Thats pressure!

That odd last visit to the school actually makes little sense to me, she went back there just to tell the first two people she saw she was going to Regina??? I wonder why she would go all the way back just for that... ALSO the time the bus depot man said she arrived may not be off, I'm thinking she did arrive there and spent a short period of time there BEFORE 12, it is basically on the way between the bank/Tim Horton's area, WHAT IF she went straight there at first, found out that a bus won't be coming until 5 pm, got on the phone with the person, who then told Mekayla "I'll just come pick u up myself" what if in this moment, Mekayla finally felt nervous about what she was doing and decided she would at least tell SOMEONE back at school at least where she was going just to be "safe", so realizing she had 2 hours to wait with the driver on the way decided to walk back to school and tell the first people she finds, then return to the bus depot. My theory not only solves some of the lost time between 11 and 12, but also lines up with what the bus depot witness said about Mekayla arriving "between 10 and 12". Further more, it also lines up with your own theory Danelle about someone from Regina picking her up; (she left the bus depot around 1:30, and since two hours is the time it takes to drive this distance this means that around 11:30 was when the person who picked up Mekayla started on their way) What do you think? One final note; I believe there may not have been a "second phone", remember when she was "taking the phone apart" at times in some of the footage; maybe she removed the phone from it's protective case and put it back in her pocket with the corner sticking out, and the kids at the school mistook this for a "second phone"...

I just read that she was taking Accutane, which causes various side effects, including mood problems, in its treatment of acne. I hope whatever decision she made was made with a clear head.

I don't know what to think. It does seem that she thought she would be back to take her medication. If she had 2 phones, she probably had 2 chargers. She may have taken the charger for the second phone. I have multiple charges and I only have 1 phone.

The theory about her dad really intrigued me, it reminds me of a book I read about a girl looking for her real dad online and she met up with a man she thought was him, it wasn’t him and this man had sinister intentions. Maybe something similar happened here?

There's a man in an orange jacket in the Tim Hortons CCTV footage in the top left hand corner who litterally hangs up his phone half a second before she does. I alerted her mother of this

I went to school with her from pre school up till the day she went missing. Still shocked to this day and my thoughts and hopes go to her and her family

Thanks for covering a Canadian case. I hadn't heard of this one, but I am definitely going to pass it on. Technology is a blessing and a curse.

If her Mom or family see's this ur definitely in our thoughts.😔

She’s been spotted in March 2019 in Edmonton at the high run club, I looked at the google photos of the place and there are a few photos that look like her in them

The fact I'm from Regina, and haven't heard about this scares me.

Coming from a teen, the second instagram account is very normal. It could've been an old account that she wanted to save the username for, so she made a new account with a different username and posted all her pictures there. It also could've been a spam account that most people like to use for stuff they can't put on their normal account.

Her FB page is active as of now.. Either someone has her password or it may be her.. Let's hope she's still alive

Ugh!! The amount of creeps that messaged me on kik when I was SO young is just insane. I would message back, send pics, etc because i was so naive and i thought it was so cool an older (oldest was like 55) men were messaging me.

I wish people was well aware of the dangers of kik and talking to people online. It is so dangerous! I am a victim of being stalked by an adult on there and I am so lucky to still be alive. The man lied about his age started talking to me on kik when I was 13 years old. I’m now almost 21. He told me I better do what he told me or he would take me and no one would ever find me. I was terrified my whole childhood until I was 19. I was scared to tell my parents because obviously I was not supposed to be on this app. My parents would go through my phone but I would just delete the app. Parents and children need to be aware of this situation. He made Facebook profiles using my pictures and he always knew where I was and where I was living. I finally told my mom and I’m no longer in contact with him. I’m still scared but it’s still a serious problem in today’s society.

They’re going to find her. My gut really feels like she’s out there.

I think using apps like whatsapp can be cheaper than making phone calls off data. Especially if she was in a wifi free zone like Tim Hortons

😯 this scares me so much thinking of how many people I talked to online when I was younger. I am lucky to be alive.

I live not that far away from her hometown and it’s such a weird feeling knowing she’s still missing and there hasn’t really been any advances in the case. I’m just hoping that wherever she is, it’s because she wants to be there and that nothing has harmed her. I wonder if this case will ever be solved 😔

I’m from where this took place, and I didn’t know her or her family personally but I do know a few people that did... and the fact that Mekayla’s mom/aunt keep making it out to seem like they were this happy little family is very far from the truth. Supposedly Mekayla was not a happy kid, her and her mom did not get along very well, she had hardly any friends at all and kept to herself and I’ve heard there is a lot of half truths & straight up lies that have been told about her home life & the situation with her father. 😕

Thank you for doing this video! I messaged you a few months ago, as this is my hometown in Yorkton, SK Canada. We have heard everything from drug overdose, to sold for sex trade. Thank you for the awareness 💕💕

Thank you Danelle for never giving up on these families, what you’re doing is helping out because I never heard of this beautiful girl and now I have and I’ll keep an eye out. Thank you again

As a Canadian who sees her missing poster often. Thanks for more attention to it. Would be cool to see a video on Serena McKay or Dwayne Lavallee help expose their murderers (he’s still missing, she was filmed beaten to death at a party :( so heartbreaking )

I really love how you have the missing person's name & a phone number on the board in the background of the videos!! I love every detail in your videos & it's all appreciated. you're doing a really wonderful thing getting out this information & doing it so respectfully & accurately. keep doing exactly what you're doing bc you're killing it mama 🖤

I agree with the whole situation that someone came to pick her up and is being groomed. Like you said if she wanted to leave for a long time she would of brought her acne medication, phone charger, whatever else she needed to bring if she was going to “run” away. My theory is that she ended up meeting someone that picked her up or something and that person knows where she’s at. It’s so sad 😞

This case honestly reminds me so much of myself at her age. I was struggling with mental illness, specifically undiagnosed bipolar disorder. I used to self harm & the whole leaving tim hortons and then circling round to the other door and showing up from behind a store reminds me of when I struggled with that. When I was desperate to hurt myself I definitely had done it behind a store if I felt like there werent anymore private places around (sometimes even bathrooms felt too public). I would talk to tons of people online, form relationships with them, was willing to meet up with them. I talked to older men who I realize now definitely took advantage of me & the fact that I was vulnerable not only because of my age but because of the state of my mental health. When I went through what I now realize was mania I would run away and if I had the means I would have skipped town but I did not. My closest friends irl didnt know everything that was going on but my closest ONLINE friends did. Nobody in my real life knew about these people for the most part though. When the mania stopped if I had done something extreme - like taking off and leaving town - I would be just overwhelmed with guilt & facing the aftermath was extremely hard. It often led to suicide attempts. The scattered way she handled everything, the urgency she seemed to feel to do it all, it all reminds me so much of when I was her age and experiencing mania. My family & friends didnt notice that anything was wrong with me when this all happened until I slipped back into depression and tried to hurt myself. My mania was dismissed as simply being a teen and acting a bit weird. The depression was always described as coming out of nowhere, nobody having seen any signs, blah blah blah. Idk maybe I'm reaching but god I relate so hard to all of this lmao.

It is so amazing to see a big channel like you cover a case from my province, I’m a long time subscriber and can’t even tell you how much this means to me! 💕

Please cover the Semaj Crosby case- toddler found under her couch.

I hope and pray Christian gets his justice. So happy his family isn't giving up or stopping, I'll be praying for they safety and well being always. Just because they want justice they do NOT deserve to be bullied into silence! Keep up your amazing work you're doing something great for Christian and his family💙💜💜

Amazing episode Danelle! It is possible that Mekayla suffered from a psychotic break or possible schizophrenic. The onset of schizophrenia typically appears from about age 17-21. I hope and pray that she is located and brought home safely to her family.

Thank you for covering cases which dont have a lot of media attention and desperately need it 🙏🏾

I know the family is being optimistic...but offering a reward for her "safe" return will do nothing if someone has info but knows she is dead or something that happened.

I was going back and re watching some of your videos and I just watched one where you were thanking everyone for reaching 900 subscribers. 2 years later look where you are now! Your channel is so important for getting information out there. Thank you for your videos

More help for the Americans: Tim Hortons - like Starbucks but no pretentiousness Giant Tiger - sorta like Target but with usually better prices

i’m pregnant with my first and this makes me never want to let my child have access to social media. it seems to me like she was planning to meet up with someone. her taking the money out and then trying to get the hotel. it sounds like she was planning to get a room to meet with this person but she couldn’t because no one would get one for her under their name and she was too young to get one for herself. so it seems like she was trying to get a bus ticket to meet with whoever she was contacting. i think she voluntarily went with this person but now she’s being held against her will or met with foul play. this person could have been grooming her. people like that prey on someone’s insecurities and vulnerabilities. if she was struggling with bullying and her acne, this is something predators look for. especially if she did have a second phone. this is something predators do. it could be a way of keeping in contact without being tracked.

As a young gay boy in the beginning of the 2000's, I used to talk to men online. At 15, I was actually supposed to meet up with up one guy and they were going to take me to a hotel. After another meet-up I had with a different guy, I changed my mind and decided to wait until I was older before I started doing that kind of stuff again. I really think it had to be an online hook-up she was planning and things went south.

I feel like her having a full backpack is such a small clue because simply putting a jacket in your bag can make it look ginormous

The second phone was a gift to her. i think she was groomed by a older man and he got her that so no one can trace him. He made it look like a runaway case so people would not look into it. Thats why her social medias say goodbye. He didnt want anyone to know.She's out there i feel it. She is going to come home.

Your theory that someone groomed her online is exactly what I was thinking. I think she was groomed, was recieving instructions and went to go see this person and it went wrong