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Disappearance of Madison "Maddy" Scott

Maddy Scott went missing on Saturday, May 28, 2011, after a birthday party at Hogsback Lake, 25km southeast of Vanderhoof, British Columbia. She planned to spend the night camping with a friend, but around midnight, a fight broke out and the friend, who was drunk and injured as a result of the fight, decided to leave the party with her new boyfriend. Witness accounts vary, but this was about three hours before the party died down and most people left. Some of the last people to have left, between 3 am and 4 am, reported speaking with Maddy and asking if she wanted a ride home. This was the last time anyone reported talking to Maddy.

Background
Maddy was born to Eldon and Dawn Scott on April 29, 1991. She is the younger sibling of Ben and the older sibling of Georgia. Maddy enjoyed dirtbiking, quading, horseback riding, team sports and hanging out with friends. Maddy worked as an apprentice heavy duty mechanic with her father Eldon at MBG Logging. Maddy was described by her brother Ben as someone who was as comfortable in a dress as she was in work coveralls.

Personality
Maddy is described as having a vivacious, fun loving, playful, social personality and would often do things on the spur of the moment. She would often break off engagements if she felt there was something more fun. For example, she broke off an engagement with her cousin, Cora Kelly, with a day's notice to go to the party at Hogsback Lake instead. Still, it is considered completely out of personality for her to be out of touch with family and friends for long. Maddy loved to have nice things too; expensive motorbike gear was left at her campsite and she recently upgraded her iPhone before she went missing. Maddy is also described has having a caring and affectionate personality. She was described by her friend Chelsea Little as "willing to give the shirt off her back" for someone in need. Maddy also enjoyed performing with and for her friends in short amateur video productions. She was described as someone who would bring it all together. It was also reported that Maddy focused more on social endeavors at school and though she managed the academic side of school, she wasn't too interested in academics.

Relationship Status
Maddy was single at the time of her disappearance. She was on a couple of dating sites at the time. There was a guy who she was interested in for some time who as at the party on Friday night for a bit; he told her that "he just wanted to be friends." According to Dawn, Maddy was a bit upset but nothing drastic. It is not known whether there was any further investigation into the guy who Maddy was interested in. There was another boy who was interested in her, but according to Dawn "she wasn't interested in him." According to Dawn, he got a bit huffy in private according to only a couple of people, not a public display, and "has been put through the ringer." According to Dawn, Maddy's cel phone records indicated that she had an incoming call at 12:30 am on 27 May 2011, the night of the party, "from a young guy who we know."

Vehicle and Personal Items at time of Disappearance
Maddy went to hogsback lake in her white 1990 Ford F150 pickup truck with Jordi Bolduc. There were a number of items which Maddy took with her to the lake that remained on, in or around the vehicle after her disappearance. Many of these items were of value. Items found around the truck after her disappearance included a two person dual-toned blue tent, sleeping bags, toiletries and costume jewelry. Items in the open bed of the truck after her disappearance included a hatchet, a cooler with wine and beer, a gas can with some gasoline and motorbike boots. Items found within her truck, which was locked, included some clothes, her purse and an expensive camera.

Numerous items were known to be missing at the time of her disappearance. These items include the clothes that she was wearing, an iPhone 4 with a robin's egg blue case and a large cluster of keys (with Ford key) on a Gothic-style lanyard.

Hogback Lake Party
Other than Jordi, and Randy Laracy, Maddy was friends with few others at the party. Spending most of her life in Vanderhoof, Maddy attended Nechako Valley Secondary School, where she met Jordi Bolduc in 2007. Jordi was new to the school, and Maddy became friends with her soon after she arrived, though this friendship dwindled by the time they had graduated in 2009. The party was a birthday party thrown as a yearly event by Garrett Kristiansen.

List of People at the Party
The party was advertised by a Facebook event. Below is a combined list of the people who were invited to the party via the Facebook event combined with the list of people off of the whiteboard in 48 hours documentary.

Hogsback Lake Geography
Hogsback lake is a lake of about 128 acres in size. It is located 26 km southeast of Vanderhoof. Soil type in the area is mainly glacial till composed of sand, gravel and clay, with a basalt bedrock. There are three gravel pits within 10 km of Hogsback lake, Mapes Pit, Skye Pit and Hogsback Pit. The area is a patchwork of lakes, creeks, swamps, forests and fields. The topography is composed of slightly rolling hills. Although there are no ranches within eyesight of Hogsback lake campground, there are numerous privately owned ranches within a km of the lake, some of them with houses and other structures. Some of these are cattle ranches and it is not uncommon to see horses, cows, sheep and other livestock nearby. Hogsback lake itself is 22 feet at its deepest.

There is a single outhouse about 50 feet from where Maddy was camping; accessible across a gravel lot. Depending on the weather, the lot can be noisy to walk across. There are a total of 10 campsites at Hogsback lake, but it is known to host parties of multiple hundreds of people.

Disappearance
Maddy had attended the party with her friend Jordi Bolduc on the evening of May 27, 2011, but had retired to her tent and sleeping bag before a fight broke out around midnight and Jordi, injured and drunk, felt compelled to leave with her new boyfriend, Tyler Goodland. According to Jordi, even though she had tried to convince Maddy to leave, Maddy was already in her sleeping bag and didn't want to get up, so Jordi left her there. Jordi came back to the campsite with Tyler at about 8:30 am the next morning to get Jordi's clothes and sleeping bag before Jordi want on her way to work. Jordi found Maddy's tent unzipped with her sleeping bags and stuff moved to the side. Jordi said that she didn't see Maddy and never reported this to anyone.

Garret Kristiansen reported that he saw Maddy's tent when he went to clean up after the party, as was his custom, shortly after 10:30 am 28 May 2011. He saw that her tent was zipped up but he didn't check it out as he thought that she was sleeping.

Maddy was reported missing to the RCMP shortly after noon on Sunday May 29, 2011, when her parents, concerned that they hadn't heard from her in almost two days, went to go check on her and found her collapsed tent and locked pickup truck abandoned. They asked a friend who was camping nearby whether they saw Maddy or not and they hadn't. Dawn called the RCMP soon after arriving at Hogsback and reported the disappearance.

RCMP reported that there was no sign of a struggle.

Cel Phone Records
Maddy and Dawn were texting at 11:30 pm Friday 27 May, 2011. And the last activity on her phone was at about 12:30 am on Saturday 28 May, 2011, when, according to Dawn, "there was an incoming call from a guy we know." Cel phone records were retrieved by RCMP, including tower pings, and they "had everything they needed." There was no record of any incoming cel phone activity after this. And the cel phone stopped pinging the tower at about 8 am 28 May 2011.

Second Party
A second party occurred in the evening of Saturday 28 May 2011 that was over twice the size of the party where Maddy disappeared. Maddy's sister was at the second party but didn't see Maddy there and didn't want to report that she was at the party because she was underage and didn't want to get in trouble. Maddy's tent was flattened at the second party and the person who flattened it was identified and questioned by RCMP, and nothing was reported to the public in regards to suspicious motives.

Investigation
The investigation following the Maddy Scott disappearance had used more investigative tools than any other case in BC history. Police claimed to have interviewed all the party goers who were at the party the night of 27 May 2011, and reported that they had no reason to believe that anyone at the party was responsible for her disappearance. The police also reported that everyone was co-operative with taking polygraph tests. Jordi Bolduc reported that she took the test numerous times and that at least one of those times, she claimed that they told her "she aced it." One thing of note about polygraph tests is that in Canada the results of polygraph tests are not actually admissible as evidence in criminal court, so it leaves the question as to what the RCMP actually used the polygraphs for. It is possible that the tests were used to put pressure on the subjects being questioned, so as to elicit a confession.

Sgt Floyd of the RCMP also reported "we haven't identified anyone that would have a grudge or had any reason to harm or cause Madison's disappearance."

The police collected and examined all of Maddy's belongings from the campsite, including her truck, tent, sleeping bag and pillow. The police also collected Jordi's sleeping bag, pillow and pillow case, though Jordi had collected them on the Saturday morning after the party. Jordi had washed her pillow case but not her sleeping bag. The police found blood in Jordi's sleeping bag which was determined to be from Jordi's ankle. Jordi was questioned about this blood and she was cleared after reporting that it came from when she was on a school trip years before.

The Scott family also hired a private investigator who did their own interview with Jordi Bolduc. They reported back to the Scotts that Jordi kept asking to have her "favorite pillow" back.

Search Effort
The area around Hogsback lake has been searched extensively, including the lake, creeks, fields, swamps and forests surrounding the lake. The area has been searched by foot, quad, horseback, helicopter, divers, cadaver-dogs, boat, car and truck. There was a particularly extensive search effort in the initial days of the disappearance, with search crews walking in extended lines, hand-in-hand, checking in at 10 pm at night, cadaver-dogs searching and dive teams scouring the lake. The helicopter search included the use of infrared cameras in the early morning hours, as the ground was cool and body heat would stand out. The helicopter search covered an area between Fraser Lake and Isle Pierre. The boat search included the use of side-scanning sonar.

Theories
Numerous theories exist as to what happened to Maddy. Judging from her personality described by friends and family, and how she lived with her parents and often checked in, it is highly unlikely that she ran away. Also, since there was no evidence of anything that would cause her to leave the campsite on her own, such as a flat tire, police consider it unlikely, that she left on her own. Animal attack has also been considered and numerous people, including Tyler Goodland, even reported seeing a large cougar in the area soon after her disappearance. However, the animal attack theory has been contested because of the lack of remains or sign of a struggle.

Many people have also suggested that she may be in the lake, however this theory has been proven highly unlikely as a team of professional divers explored the lake and found nothing. Also, cadaver dogs searched the parameter of the lake during the early stages of the search and found nothing. It should also be noted that the lake is fairly small at 128 acres and is only 22 feet at its deepest and reasonably clear, so it is not hard to search.

Foul Play
RCMP believe that foul play is involved in the disappearance of Maddy Scott. The RCMP also said that there was no sign of a struggle. It was also reported that apart from the clothes which she was wearing, the only two items missing with her are her iPhone 4 and a large bundle of keys, including a Ford key, on a Gothic style lanyard.

It is not known exactly how she left.

Since there was no sign of a struggle and Maddy was able to collect her keys and cel phone before leaving, this implies that Maddy was convinced to go.

Friends or Associates
Dawn mentioned that Maddy was pursuing someone who was at the party for a bit. Dawn said that Maddy told her that he wasn't interested and he told Maddy that he "just wanted to be friends." It is not yet public knowledge how much effort was put into investigating this man.

Another person who is suspect was the guy who was interested in Maddy but huffy in private. This guy was "put through the ringer." And it should be noted that this guy would have had a tougher time convincing Maddy to go with him than the guy who she liked, who was at the party.

Many people have pointed towards Jordi Bolduc as having some sort of involvement in Maddy's disappearance and since Jordi was supposed to spend the night with Maddy, it is natural to suspect Jordi. However, Jordi took numerous polygraph tests and according to her own testimony, she "aced it." In addition to this, since Jordi left the party with her new boyfriend at the time, Jordi would have had to find a way to make it back to the campsite without being noticed or conspired with another person to have taken Maddy. Jordi had left with Tyler Goodland. It is not yet public knowledge how much effort was put into investigating Tyler Goodland.

Another rumor suggested that Fribjon Bjornson may have been somehow involved in Maddy's disappearance. The rumor started after Jordi Bolduc was interviewed on 48 Hours having said that Maddy and Fribjon were involved and that he was "bad news." The rumor suggests that Maddy's disappearance and Fribjon's death are related. Maddy and Fribjon played on the same recreational softball team for a while, however, police and the victim's families don't believe there are any significant links between the two cases.

Stranger
It has been proposed that a stranger may have taken Maddy.

Israel Keyes has also been proposed, however the theory that he is responsible is unlikely because although he was known to travel between Oregon and Alaska, and Vanderhoof is between these two locations, Keyes is known to have a specific MO which doesn't fit for the Maddy Scott disappearance. Specifically, Keyes was known to make murder kits, stalking his victims for weeks in advance and often stealing from them after killing them. No murder kit was found. Maddy decided to go to the party, which is in a remote location, less than 48 hours before her disappearance, making it more difficult for Keyes to know where she was and stalk her there, let alone plan weeks in advance for her to be there. And nothing was known to be stolen from Maddy's campsite, even though there were multiple items of value left in plain sight; this is contrary to Keyes' MO of stealing from his victims.

MBTI Type and Susceptibility to Manipulation
Maddy's personality traits are characteristic of an ESFP, also known as "Performer" or "Entertainer" personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator assessment. ESFP's don't respond well to introverted suggestions or direct criticisms from friends, loved ones or especially their partners. However, ESFPs can be easily manipulated by someone they trust, and will have a hard time realizing what is happening. ESFPs are upfront people, and often take everything for face value. They are not skeptical of others, simply because they are laid back individuals. ESFPs dislike getting caught up on the negatives in life, and because of this they are much less skeptical. ESFPs want to enjoy life, and prefer to live in the present moment. This desire to soak up the present, can cause the ESFP to become blind to the manipulation going on around them. Surreptitious manipulation to an ESFP is limited to extroverted manipulation, particularly through triangulation, ie leveraging the input of others to influence the ESFP personality's behavior, or through humor. Extroverted triangulation manipulation tactics are natural to personality types ESFJ ("Consul") and ENFJ ("Protagonist"). ENFP ("Campaiger") personality usually doesn't manipulate but can use any manipulation tactic naturally.