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Police offer new detail in missing mom case

Winnipeg police and the family of a young mother missing for more than two years are making a renewed appeal for information that leads to her being found.

Foul play suspected

Winnipeg police and the family of a young mother missing for more than two years are making a renewed appeal for information that leads to her being found.

Tuesday, investigators and relatives of Claudette Osborne, who was 21 when she was last seen on July 25, 2008 released new information about the case.

Osborne was last seen at 6:00 a.m. on July 25th 2008 in the proximity of the Lincoln Motor Hotel in Winnipeg.

However, Tuesday,Investigators said they have since confirmed that she made her way from the Lincoln Motor Hotel on McPhillips Street to the area of Selkirk Avenue and King Street by approximately 6:30 a.m. that same morning.

"Investigators firmly believe that there are people out there that know specific details about Claudettes disappearance and we need those people to come forward with crucial information that will help to resolve this investigation and bring Claudette home to her family," police said in a statement.

"We need people to think 'King and Selkirk' at that time and that place, just to refresh people's memory," said Det. Clyde Raven.

"Did they see her, did they see where she may have went. Did they see who she could have been with at that point in time," he said.

Claudette Osborne has been missing since July 2008. ((Police handout))
In an updated video reenactment released through Crime StoppersTuesday, police said foul play is suspected in Osborne's disappearance.

Osborne is described as aboriginal, 5 feet, 4 inches tall and approximately 145 pounds with a medium build.

She has hazel green eyes and had long brown hair when she went missing.

She was last seen wearing black pinstriped pants and a black v-neck t-shirt with a ruffled collar.She also has a small 1-inch-long scar on the lower right side of her face.

Anyone with information about Osborne's disappearance is asked to call the missing persons unit at 204-986-6250, Child Find Manitoba at 1-800-532-9135 or Winnipeg Crime Stoppers at 204-786-TIPS (8477).