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| Ferneyhough, Darryl 5/13/2001; Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada | |
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| monkalup | May 15 2007, 10:56 AM Post #1 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.halifax.ca/Police/MissingPerson...sp?VictimID=124 Victim: Ferneyhough, Darryl Incident#: 01-19263 Date:5/25/2001 D.O.B.:13/12/1971 Location: Halifax, Entire Region Halifax Regional Police are seeking the public's assistance locating Darryl Ferneyhough. Details: Twenty-nine year-old Darryl Ferneyhough went missing on the morning of Sunday, May 13, 2001. Darryl was seen at the night club NRG on Gottingen Street at 1:30 a.m. and later seen at 3:40 a.m. running north on Gottingen Street in the area of the Marquee Club. He had been out socializing with friends for the evening. Darryl is described as a white male, 5'11" tall, 162 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a green shirt, jeans and dark shoes. He has had no contact with friends or family and his bank account remains untouched. Anyone with information on the location of Darryl Ferneyhough is asked to contact Halifax Regional Police at 490-5016 or your local police agency. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | May 15 2007, 10:57 AM Post #2 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=29632&sc=89 NEWS Last updated at 7:12 AM on 15/05/07 DARRYL FERNEYHOUGH Father fears serial killer targeting gays 2 Son vanished in May 2001; police won't rule out link Post a comment | View comments (2) | View latest comment BETH JOHNSTON The Daily News The hair on the back of Sheldon Ferneyhough's neck stood up when he read that police were warning Halifax's gay men to avoid cruising areas after two men were murdered last week. Ferneyhough, a Sydney Mines resident whose 29-year-old son Darryl Ferneyhough vanished after leaving a Gottingen Street gay bar on Mother's Day 2001, thinks someone murdered his son. "Right off the bat, you know what I thought? There is a serial killer, I'm telling you right now," he said. "Look at all the missing people down there, like they've fallen off the face of the Earth, and most of them are gay. There's something wrong." Halifax Regional Police spokeswoman Theresa Brien said anyone who sees any similarities in missing persons files should contact the investigators at 490-5061 or anonymously at Crimestoppers. "We won't rule out that possibility, and we'll explore every investigative avenue," she said. Sheldon and Evelyn Ferneyhough have talked to psychics, distributed flyers and posted posters, but haven't had any leads. Their son was a happy, healthy, drug-free man who had never suffered from depression. Ferneyhough didn't learn his son's sexual orientation until after his disappearance. "He did not commit suicide," Sheldon Ferneyhough said, adding Darryl had recently been promoted at his job as a butcher at the Queen Street Sobeys. "Nobody just disappears. I'm looking for a ghost." In the early morning hours of May 12, 2001 the night before Ferneyhough's disappearance, another gay man, 19-year-old Brian George, vanished without a trace after arguing with a friend at Reflections Cabaret, a gay bar on Sackville Street. Neither of the men's bank accounts have been touched since. At the time, police said there was no indication of foul play, but wouldn't rule it out. It was a misty spring evening when Ferneyhough spent the evening at his cousin's Gottingen Street apartment. He borrowed a few dollars so he could head down to Club NRG for a beer, taking her apartment key so he could come back and crash later. His cousin saw him running down Gottingen Street just before 4 a.m. Evelyn Ferneyhough is confident her son didn't take his own life. "No, definitely not. You would have to know Darryl," she said, adding she holds out hope he'll be home someday. "As far as I am concerned, no news is good news." bjohnston@hfxnews.ca |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | May 15 2007, 10:57 AM Post #3 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| Ell | Jun 2 2007, 07:51 AM Post #4 |
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Heart of Gold
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http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=34197&sc=93 My friend is still missing, but who's looking for him? Some cases seem to get more police and media attention than others CANDY PALMATER The Daily News Darryl Ferneyhough was my friend. He went missing on the morning of Sunday, May 13, 2001. He had been out with friends and was seen at club NRG on Gottingen Street at 1:30 a.m., a club, where just a week before, he and I had danced up a storm. At 3:40 a.m. that same morning he was seen running north on Gottingen Street in the area of the Marquee Club. He was 29 at the time. He has not been seen by friends or family since, nor has his bank account been touched. In the same way that I feel frustrated about the way the deaths of Michael Paul Knott and Trevor Brewster were dealt with, I also feel incredible frustration at how Darryl's disappearance was dealt with. What is the common link? All three men were gay. When I spoke to the Halifax police this week, it seemed there was not much they could tell me. I asked about Brian George, another Halifax man, also gay, who went missing within 24 hours of Darryl's disappearance. Both men are still listed as missing persons. With regard to Darryl's case, all they would tell me is that there was nothing to indicate foul play, though they could not rule it out. As his friend, I know what kind of person he was, and know there has to be foul play. He didn't just walk away. In the six years since Darryl has gone missing, I have thought about him every time a body is discovered, or when I hear certain songs on the radio, or when I open up my closet and see the polo sweatshirt I borrowed from him all those years ago. Mother's Day Darryl was born and raised in Bras d'Or with his only sibling. His sister died of cancer on Mother's Day nine years before Darryl's disappearance. His parents, Evelyn and Shelly Ferneyhough, lost both of their children on Mother's Day, and are now left with only memories: parents without children. Darryl's mother found it too difficult to talk, but I did have a conversation with his father, Shelly. He expressed anger at the way his son's disappearance has been handled both by the media and the police. Mr. Ferneyhough feels that because his son was gay, the case is not receiving the same kind of attention as other missing person's cases. He has a point. Kimberley McAndrew went missing the summer I moved to Halifax. Just about everyone in Halifax knows about that case. In fact, when I called the Halifax police media relations constable, he could not remember Darryl's case, but when I mentioned McAndrew, there was instant recognition, and he was quick to inform me that the police suspect foul play in her disappearance. When I asked the difference between the two disappearances, all he could tell me is that they have evidence in the McAndrew case that leads them to that conclusion. Over the past few years, however, everyone from academics to newspaper columnists to USA Today have been reporting on this phenomenon some are calling "missing white woman syndrome." Cases concerning missing white women, particularly if they are young and pretty, get far more media coverage than cases of missing minorities or prostitutes, and I would argue also gay men. This phenomenon is not lost on Shelly Ferneyhough. "Darryl was gay, and we don't come from money," he said, "so no one cares about our son but us." Mr. Ferneyhough told me that on Mother's Day every year he visits his daughter's grave, and while he's there, he thinks about his lost son. "Every time a body is discovered, the hairs stand up on the back of my head," he said. Not like TV "That Cold Case show on TV," Ferneyhough said, "It's not like that. They don't contact us. The officers who originally worked the case have moved on to other jobs, so when we call we always get someone new who just tells us there is nothing to report. But we feel there are some people that should have been questioned more rigorously." Darryl Ferneyhough was my friend. He was one of our fellow citizens. He worked and played in our city. He was kind, responsible, fun and loving. And he was somebody's son. The citizens of Halifax should be concerned about his disappearance, and should demand more attention be paid to the case. Someday, it could be your son. candy@thecandyshow Anyone with information on the location of Darryl Ferneyhough is asked to contact Halifax Regional Police at 490-5016, or your local police agency. |
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