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It was a gray fall day when Officer Chris Horsley boarded a Coast Guard helicopter.

As he buckled in, he thought to himself, conditions were perfect for a search.

The doors on both sides of the bright red helicopter were wide open as it took off and flew up the dark waters of the gorge on Vancouver Island.

Officer Horsley looked right, while another constable looked left.

Below, they saw police divers who were also part of the search.

As the helicopter traveled further up the waterway and over a bridge,

Officer Horsley saw what they were looking for,

the body of a teenage girl who'd been missing for over a week.

I'm Kathy Kanzora, and this is History of the 90s, a podcast about a decade that changed the

world.

Over the next two episodes, I'm joined by Caitlin and Graham Duffy, the co-hosts of the podcast,

True North, True Crime, as we look back at a Canadian murder that drew international

attention and brought the issue of teen violence and

bullying into the spotlight. This is the murder of Rina Verk.

When Rina Verk was a toddler, her dad said she looked like a princess, which was fitting for a little girl whose name means queen in Hindi.

Manjit was a doting father to his firstborn. He read her books and sang lullabies, cherishing every moment with his young daughter.

Rina's dad came to Canada from India in 1979.

His original plan was to stay for two months while visiting his sister in Victoria on British Columbia's Vancouver Island.

But while he was there, he fell in love and married Rina's mom, Suman.

Another daughter and son soon followed Rina.

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