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Lita Blacksmith - Mother of Lorna Blacksmith, murdered in 2012 "I came here today because I needed somewhere to pray for my daughter. I didn't know about it earlier because I don't really connect with people since I lost my daughter. I don't know...every time I come it overwhelms me. It's like I'm living that moment again. When I lost her, when they found her. It all kicks in at once and it hurts a lot (sobs). So I don't come to these things much. But when I do come and we all support each other, it's different. But I don't always get support because I don't come outside much. I don't ask for help, I just deal with it my own way." "My daughter went missing one night after I dropped her off at her friends place. She hadn't contacted me and I got worried because it wasn't like her to be like that. She wasn't answering me and I kept on trying. She just turned 18 on October 10th. She went missing that January." "My daughter was outgoing, she lived to the fullest. She was always on the go. She always had all these plans for us, what to do, where to go. I loved every plan that she made. She was very funny, she made me laugh. Sometimes I felt she was looking after me instead of me looking after her. It was funny how we were with each other. But I was always worried about her in the city. I know what it was like - people getting jumped and beaten up for no reason. " "She had issues and she was dealing with it in her own way. I respected her needs and her privacy. I didn't want to get into too much with her, I didn't want to make her run off. I wanted to keep close to her. That's why I never dealt with what she was going through with her emotions. So it's very hard...It's hard. I lost her." "I wish the cops would treat us equally. I went to them and they pushed me away a couple times. They said she's just a teenager and she'll call you soon. I got mad and I was telling my people about it, my family. 'Nobody's helping me,' I said to them, so my chief got involved and started making these missing pictures. And they started talking to the chief of police about what was wrong. It was almost a month and a half before we went there, the chief and me. I did whatever I could do, handed out pictures to anybody, all around the area, wherever I drove. I never slept. I just drove around looking for her" "On June 21, the investigators showed up at my door. And that's when they told me that they found her and she wasn't alive."