We are the Rooney family from Australia and are desperately searching for our son Owen, who walked away from the hospital and his belongings in Grand Forks, BC, on August 14, 2010. He has not been heard from since. It is extremely unusual for him to not be in contact with friends and family.

He had sustained a head injury on Aug 12, 2010.

He is 5'9" tall, 160 lb, has an Australian accent and was last seen wearing a dark shirt and shorts. He has tattoos on his right calf and on his shoulder (see pictures below, right). He worked at Big White in Kelowna for the previous two winters and at a restaurant in Kelowna until his disappearance.

We are asking for your help and are most appreciative of any help you can give us. If you can print out posters and put them up, that would help a LOT (visit this site and right click to print or go to the Facebook page and click on File and then Owens Poster to download it). Read below to see where posters have already been placed.

Our Facebook page is Help Find Owen Rooney. To share via Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, etc, there is a row of icons below the word Comments under each post. Just click on the appropriate one. Facebook gives you two choices for the thumbnail you can use. I suggest you use the picture of Owen. I can't get it to be the default.

Do you have any further ideas? Enter any info by clicking a Comments link below. Thanks!!

Contact Grand Forks RCMP: 250-442-8288 or Kelly Rooney: 778-686-3534 or Crimestoppers: 1-800-222-8477 or email: sfsrooney@gmail.com

Thursday, August 18, 2011

The One Year Anniversary Has Passed

The anniversary of Owen's disappearance was on August 14. We are so pleased that the media has not forgotten and are continuing to have an interest in publicizing our story.

Thank you to Metro News for this story: Not Giving Up on Their Search

And to CTV British Columbia: Search for Owen Rooney Continues One Year Later


For those of you following our story, the CTV article contains some updated information.
Posted by Rooney Family at 1:09 PM
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3 comments:

  1. To Owen's parents and family, I continue to pray to St Anthony to find Owen for you.In a world where it's hard to have faith in anyone or anything, St Anthony is my rock.My thoughts are always with you, he is somewhere, St Anthony please tell us where. Mum from Geelong

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  2. nothing new to report other than many more continue to be made aware and empowered as to how a healthy community may choose to act as one in common sense and law.
    ~Tea is allways on team Rooney, I expect to remain on station until spring, then ut t0 the g0ld fields (1 year late)
    =maith sláinte upon yee all !

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  3. Do you have any photographs from inside the hospital looking out to show the field of view that an employee would actually have, particularly the employee who claims to have witnessed this "ambling off toward a potato field" and away from his belongings about which he had so recently expressed great concern?

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