Emma Fillipoff was born on January 6, 1986, in Perth (Ontario, Canada). Her parents were James and Shelley Fillipoff. The woman moved from her hometown to Victoria (British Columbia) in the fall of 2011. Emma was briefly employed at the Red Fish Blue Fish seafood restaurant in the port there. As the work was seasonal, Fillipoff finished it on October 31, 2012. She then assured her co-workers that she would come back in the spring.
It is assumed that the woman then began preparations to move out of the city and return to Ontario. On November 21, the 26-year-old hired a tow truck. She rented a vehicle to transport her car (a red 1993 Mazda MPV) from Sooke to the Chateau Victoria parking lot. On November 23, Fillipoff was captured on surveillance footage at the Victoria YMCA, entering and exiting the building multiple times as if avoiding someone waiting outside.
Unbeknownst to her family, Emma has been staying at the Sandy Merriman House Women's Shelter on and off since February. In the days leading up to her disappearance, the woman called her mother in Ontario several times, asking if she could go home. But each time she changed her mind quickly, asking Shelley not to come. During the last conversation, the mother found out that Emma lives at Sandy Merriman House.
Though her daughter asked her not to come, the woman booked the flight immediately. Emma Fillipoff's last words to her mother were, "I don't know how to face you." Her mother arrived at the women's shelter on November 28 around 23:00. This happened some three hours after the 26-year-old was last seen by police at the Empress Hotel.
In the early morning of November 28, Fillipoff was captured on a camera of the 7-Eleven store on Government Street. At that time, she bought a mobile phone with a prepaid card. The video shows Emma hesitating before leaving the store, checking what was going on outside. She went back to 7-Eleven to buy a $200 prepaid credit card. It has been determined that the woman likely left Sandy Merriman House where she was living that day around 6:00 PM. Soon after, she ordered a taxi and asked to be taken to Victoria Airport. However, she soon got out of the car due to the inability to pay for the course, despite the fact that she had a previously purchased $200 card with her.
A few minutes later, Emma Fillipoff was seen barefoot outside the Empress Hotel. An acquaintance of hers, Dennis Quay, recognized her friend and called the emergency number, claiming that the woman was in poor condition. The local police soon appeared outside the hotel. Officers verified the Canadian's identity and spent 45 minutes with her asking about various things. The policemen decided that Fillipoff was not a threat to herself or other people, so they let her go. By the time of the submission in June 2018, this was the last one confirmed. Later that evening, the police met with the Canadian mother at Sandy Merriman House. At midnight, Emma Fillipoff was classified as missing.
Initially, police concluded that Fillipoff was last seen with friends a few blocks away on Burdett Avenue between Blanshard and Quadra Streets. Investigators examined over 200 clues, which, however, did not bring any breakthrough information. Most of the evidence indicates that the 26-year-old planned to return home, but there was no evidence that she ever left Victoria.
The cell phone she bought was never activated. The Fillipoff credit card was allegedly found on the side of the road near Juan de Fuca Community Center, just north of where it was lost. The finder turned out to be a stranger who used the card to buy cigarettes. This transaction was recorded by the police.
The missing Mazda was found in the parking lot of the Chateau Victoria hotel with almost all her belongings. Inside was a passport, library card, digital camera, clothes, pillow, various decorations, laptop and recently borrowed books from the library. It is assumed that Emma kept her personal belongings in the car. It was also established that she spoke to the staff of Chateau Victoria at 7:00 am on the day of her disappearance.
Fillipoff has written many poems about her life in Victoria. Neither of them indicated that she was being followed. Although some of them indicated depression, experts found no fragments in them that indicated suicidal thoughts. However, according to Emma's mother, Sandy Merriman's employees said her daughter needed specialist medical attention.
Campbell River Courier-Islander reported in May 2014 that Joel and Lori Sellen had witnessed a man in their shop throwing away a poster stating a $ 25,000 reward for helping find Fillipoff. The couple remembered that the man said, "This is one of those missing person posters, except she's not missing, she's my girlfriend, and she ran away because she hates her parents." The owners immediately called the police. Although the image of the man was recorded on the monitoring, his identity could not be established. It's hard to say if it was a grim joke or proof that Emma is alive and well.
In March 2016, Fillipoff's mother and brother were charged with money laundering as well as drug and gun crime. Shelley insisted that the case had nothing to do with Emma's disappearance. Ultimately, in November 2016, all charges against Shelley Fillipoff were dropped.
In the summer of 2018, a man named William provided new information on the case. According to a witness account, the next morning after Fillipoff's disappearance, he met a woman who matched the description of the missing person in the nearby town of Esquimalt. Following this statement, police organized a search of the View Royal area of Victoria in December 2018. However, the search did not bring a breakthrough. To this day, the mysterious case of the disappearance of Emma Fillipoff remains unsolved.
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