— Friday, March 27, 1998 —

North Shore News

Missing man surfaces after search

Anna Marie D’Angelo

News Reporter
dangelo@nsnews.com

LARRY Thiessen
was last seen
around Aug. 25 of
last year.

By mid September,
Thiessen’s worried family had
plastered missing person
posters fron: here to Roberts
Creek. The North Vancouver
RCMP were immersed in a
time-consuming investigation.
Police suspected “foul play”
had happened to the 49-vear-
old licenced practical nurse
from Lions Gate Hospital.
Crime investigators had gone
as far as paying a pathologist
to check dental records in the

Name: Rickey Dale Johnsen

Age: 37

Offfence: robbery, possessing

stolen property, taking a vehi-
. cle without consent

“by

LARRY Thiessen... miss-
ing for seven months.

—

case.

On Wednesday, an appar-
endly fit Thiessen walked into
the North Van RCMP office
and said police were looking
for him.

Const. Tom Seaman quotr-
ed Thiessen as saying “Oh, I

Name: Chery! Flegel
Age: 38
Offeace:
weapon
Call NV RCMP at 985-1311

assault with a

am very flattered,” when he
was informed by a scrious
crime investigator about all
the hours of work done to
find him. Seaman © said
Thiessen acted irresponsibly
and could have made one
phone call to his worried fam-
ily. Thiessen wanted to keep
the reason for his disappear-
ance contidential. Thiessen
lived in North Van betore he
disappeared.

The News contacted: his
mother in Burnaby on
Thursday. Thiessen’s mother,
who would not give her first
name, said she was relieved
her son was back.

“I’m not exactly sure
where he is at the present
time, bur he is back,” said
Thiessen’s mother.

“Pm really sorry, When

Name: Jace Braaten

Age: 24

Offence: two charges of fail-
ing to report to 2 probation
officer

Larry disappeared I was most
unhappy with all the things
that appeared a the paper. A
lot of it was not based on fact
so I just preter not to make

any comment at all,” she said.

Last September, the North
Van Mounties released per-
sonal information about
Thiessen in attempts to get

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According to a Sept. 21,
1997 News report, police said
Thiessen was known to fre-
quent West End bath houses.

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