Ginnean Briggs-Scout’s family needs you to “know her name.”
In an RCMP press launch introducing second-degree homicide charges versus a 61-year-old man, authorities defined Ginnean, the goal, as “the deceased … a 28-year-old female resident of Lethbridge,” whose physique was present in a backwoods close to Oyen, Alta.
The Briggs and Scout relations took a seat with CBC News on the Lethbridge dwelling of Ginnean’s mothers and dads to debate their little one and assure that people perceive “she wasn’t just some Jane Doe.”
“I just want them to know her name … she’s a sister, she’s a mother, she was a daughter, she’s a granddaughter,” acknowledged Charmayne Scout, Ginnean’s older sis.
The family, together with CBC News, has truly likewise assembled brand-new data in regards to the man charged of homicide and his reference to Ginnean.
In the weeks as a result of the RCMP laid charges, the family has truly found that the man apprehended by authorities was anyone they will surely happy beforehand– a person Ginnean had truly understood for a number of years.
CBC News has truly likewise found that Garry Dean Brown, the man encountering a second-degree homicide price, helped the City of Lethbridge.
Several members of Ginnean Briggs-Scout’s family collected at her mothers and dads’ dwelling to debate their loved one which was eradicated inSeptember Her mothers and dads are James and Vicki Briggs, 4th and fifth from the left. (Meghan Grant/ CBC )
Ginnean Briggs-Scout was understood in her family as “silly, outgoing, protective” and “a firecracker.”
She bought on dependency by way of a man regarding 8 years again, in response to her mothers and dads, James andVicki Briggs Drugs “took control,” acknowledged her daddy.
But additionally when it could actually be weeks in between check-ins, Ginnean would in some unspecified time in the future “pop back up,” in response to James.
‘He was constantly trying to find her’
At the second of her fatality, James and Vicki declare Ginnean was dwelling a dangerous lifestyle. Along with the dependency, she was working in Lethbridge’s intercourse career, in response to her family.
Desiree Scout states it’s by way of that lifestyle that her relative, buddy and sometimes roomie Ginnean happy Garry Dean Brown.
Desiree is soft-spoken and can’t talk about Ginnean with out wrecking. The 2 women lived the very same susceptible lifestyle until Desiree obtained tidy and remodeled her life round regarding a yr again.
As shut as siblings, each cohabited on and off.
Desiree states she’s understood Brown, that RCMP declare is from Vulcan County, additionally longer than Ginnean did. She states he patronized of Ginnean’s that will surely likewise befriended her.
“He was always around her, he was always looking for her. When he couldn’t find her, he would ask me,” acknowledged Desiree.
“I don’t know what it was about him, but she really got along with him. They were really good friends.”
‘Who is this individual?’
When revealed a photograph of Brown, Ginnean’s dad mentioned loudly, “That’s him. That’s him. That’s the same dude that came knocking at our door.”
James and Vicki declare that an “older guy” appeared at their dwelling two occasions over the in 2015 roughly to talk with them regarding Ginnean.
A yr again, the man knowledgeable the family that Ginnean had truly only in the near past delivered and meant to get in contact with them.
Ginnean Briggs-Scout as an toddler along with her dad,James Briggs James states he by no means ever shed hope that he will surely have the flexibility to help Ginnean injury her dependency. (Charmayne Scout)
James states he requested your self, “Who is this guy? What’s your relationship to my daughter?”
Another time, he concerned ask in the event that they will surely seen Ginnean since she had truly been lacking out on for per week.
“He was bugging everybody and going online and asking if anybody knew where she was at,” acknowledged James.
CBC News has truly verified that Brown is a earlier employees member with the City of Lethbridge parks and burial grounds division.
In October 2023, the town did a operate story regarding a big blue Adirondack chair that Brown constructed for the neighborhood.
That story has truly been rubbed from the town’s website online and social media websites accounts, but a internet archive website online referred to as the Wayback Machine permits accessibility to the town’s weblog publish previous to it was gotten rid of.
The metropolis will surely not discuss in regards to the elimination of the Brown quick article, but did validate he had truly been a employee.
Because of non-public privateness legislations, an agent for the town acknowledged it won’t speak about what introduced in regards to the discontinuation of Brown’s work in June 2024.
Last yr, the City of Lethbridge included a story regarding earlier employees member Garry Dean Brown, 61, that constructed a big Adirondack chair for the neighborhood. The metropolis has often because rubbed any kind of reference of Brown from its website online and social media websites net pages. An net archive website online referred to as the Wayback Machine recorded the story from 2023. (net.archive.org/City of Lethbridge)
On Sept 17, a rustic landowner referred to as RCMP to report discovering females’s garments and varied different particular person merchandise merely off a rustic roadway in a treed location close to Oyen, regarding 350 kilometres northeast of Lethbridge.
Police had been despatched off to the situation and after a search, policemans discovered Ginnean’s physique.
“What the heck was she doing up there?” Vicki marvels.
‘ I require to understand’
The family states they’re irritated with an absence of particulars from the RCMP and have truly been entrusted to finish the areas by themselves.
They’re tortured by their considerations.
“We don’t know what happened to her,” acknowledgedJames “We don’t know how she looked when she was found, whether she was dressed or not, if there was a sexual assault involved. Nothing, nothing, nothing.”
Ginnean Briggs-Scout’s physique was found in a backwoods close to Oyen, Alta., 8 days after RCMP thought she was eradicated. Local RCMP introduced the family to the situation to allow them to see the place she was found. (Charmayne Scout)
“It’s been hard, really hard. As her parents, it may seem morbid, but it’s stuff for myself, I need to know. I want to know exactly what happened to my daughter.”
Brown’s occasion goes to the beginning of the courtroom process. Murder checks sometimes take higher than a yr previous to they’re arrange.
The family has truly been making the just about three-hour drive to Hanna, Alta., to take part in Brown’s fast courtroom seems to be, the next of which is readied to occur afterward at present.
“She’s not just an ‘Indigenous, 28, female, found,’” acknowledgedVicki “She’s more than that and that’s what we’re trying to prove to the court.”
CBC News linked to Brown’s lawyer, Scott Hadford, but didn’t get a recall.
‘ An assurance per various other’
When requested why Ginnean had not been referred to as within the information launch, an agent for the RCMP acknowledged it was doubtless a “miscommunication.” RCMP declare the family was knowledgeable her title wouldn’t be launched and “seemed good with that.”
In response to the family’s downside regarding an absence of interplay, RCMP acknowledged a police officer will surely join within the following couple of days “as a normal, routine family contact.”
For the Briggs and Scout relations, amongst some of the disagreeable parts of Ginnean’s fatality is the shed probability to attract her out of her dependency.
Ginnean Briggs-Scout, proper, imagined along with her brother or sisters. She was referred to as a security and caring lady. (Charmayne Scout )
They’d by no means ever shed hope that they’ll ultimately acquire her again.
“We made a promise to each other that if one of us got clean, the other one would get clean too,” acknowledged Desiree.
“When I talked to her a few months before [her death], I let her know that I was clean and she was like ‘that’s really good for you.’”
‘She was enjoyed’
Before the dependency took management, Ginnean remained in cosmetology faculty.
Desiree’s mama, Heather Scout, that was Ginnean’s “favourite aunty,” acknowledged she looks like she failed her niece.
“After I got my daughter sober, I was coming after my niece … the plans were, I was going to get her back into school.”
“She was loved,” acknowledged James.
“Both me and the wife feel like somebody just reached inside of us and pulled a part of us out and we’ll never get it back, and we had a lot of hopes and dreams for her which will never materialize now.”
