Bowen Island mystery brings homicide investigators back

The disappearance of 17-year-old Jodi Henrickson has been a nearly two-decade-long mystery on Bowen Island.

There has been much speculation about what happened to her and Global News has learned that the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was back on the island this week.

Henrickson’s ex-boyfriend, Gavin Arnott, was outside an Alberta courtroom this week on an unrelated matter.

Global News asked him about the new police search near his family’s property on Bowen Island.

“They’re not going to find anything just because they haven’t for the last 20 years,” he said.

“There’s nothing to implicate me, the circumstances surrounding my involvement. I know that there’s nothing that’s going to tie me to it, so it’s not really anything to bother me.”

Henrickson, who was from Squamish, disappeared after a house party on Bowen Island in June 2009.

Two weeks before the party, Arnott, who was 19 at the time, was convicted of assaulting Henrickson, who was 17.

He received a conditional discharge and was prohibited from contacting her as part of his probation.

Her brother, Rob Henrickson, told Global News that they need to know the truth about what happened.

“Justice for me and my family is understanding what happened to Jodi,” he said.

“Right now we have absolutely no idea what happened to Jodi that night.”

Global News asked the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) why investigators were on Bowen Island.

“We did not locate Jodi Henrickson’s remains,” Sgt. Freda Fong from IHIT said.