Changing Seasons & Other Reasons for Examining the Endgame of Emma Fillipoff

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

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🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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On the evening of November 28, 2012 two police officers discovered a distressed 26-year-old woman named Emma Fillipoff sitting outside the Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC clutching her shoes. After a 45-minute interview in which she barely spoke, they decided she was not a threat to herself or anyone else, and went about their business. But Emma Fillipoff was never seen again. Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological reconstruction of the narrative present in the final days before her disappearance.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus
0:11.5	coming at you once again with one of the more intriguing mysteries of the past decade.
0:16.0	That of course is the disappearance of 26 year old Emma Philipoff outside the Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia on the evening of November 28, 2012.
0:28.4	This is a well publicized story that's maintained its status as a high profile missing person's case, yet it's no closer to
0:35.2	being solved today than it was at the time she vanished.
0:39.7	As it stands, nobody has a clue what really happened to her.
0:44.0	At least, not anybody who's willing to come forward.
0:48.0	So this is a case I'll be examining primarily from the perspective of a voluntary disappearance, yet we'll also
0:55.6	take a look at the possibility of foul play as well. And while there's a fairly well detailed
1:00.9	timeline of the events leading up to Emma's vanishing, there was simply nothing left in her wake to provide a roadmap.
1:08.0	With no evidence, law enforcement doesn't stand much of a chance in solving the riddle.
1:14.0	So what I'm about to do, in order to help us understand what might have transpired,
1:18.4	is deconstruct the psychology of Emma's mental state and movements throughout the days leading up to her disappearance.
1:25.4	I believe we need to identify the evolutionary abomination present in her life that's severely exacerbating
1:31.9	her mental illness to the point she's reached the
1:34.6	threshold of psychosis and beyond, ultimately hitting the point of no return.
1:40.5	That involves a lot of speculation because it means I have to dig down to the root of what caused this mental state in the first place.
1:48.0	And you know what that means.
1:50.0	I'm going to say some things that are probably going to upset a few people, so I'd like to address that up front in this case.
1:57.0	In my research, the goal is always to construct a narrative at the event, whether it's by way of facts, psychology, or some other measure.
2:06.1	And in this instance, as is the case all too often, the narrative being offered to the public
2:12.0	is absent of personal information about the subject and family that is absolutely vital in understanding the truth.
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