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<\/p>\nA three-hour conversation, mostly a one-side monologue from Dow with just a sheet of glass between McLaughlin and the man he believes killed his sister nearly 33 years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cI couldn\u2019t show any anger or whatnot toward him because he is the key toward solving Sherri\u2019s case and letting us know where she is. And I just had to sit there. It was such an odd and terrible feeling that this is the person who\u00a0is responsible,\u201d recounted McLaughlin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The hope quickly faded, with Dow accepting no responsibility for Sherri\u2019s disappearance, perhaps ending any hope of closure. Days later, Dow ended his life with MAID.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know who you are. I know who you are. What I\u2019m asking is if there is a grain of humanity in you \u2014 and I know there is \u2014 please do the right thing and tell someone,\u201d said RCMP investigator Garry Kerr in a 2009 news conference discussing advances in the McLaughlin case.<\/p>\n
That emotional appeal was\u00a0not enough to ever get Dow to confess.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt terrifies me that I\u2019m not going to have any closure, that this might not ever end for me,\u201d said McLaughlin. \u201cAnytime I walk my dog, I ask myself if my sister could be in the bushes right next to me. Anywhere I go, it haunts me all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the conversation from prison,\u00a0Dow even attempted to point blame at his brother, but McLaughlin stated that timeline of events simply doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Daniel Dow\u2019s story that somebody used his car, went out and\u00a0abducted Sherri, did whatever he did with her, hid her, disposed of her \u2013 whatever the case may be \u2013\u00a0and then came back and tucked the car in before his brother got home is just an absolute ridiculous story,\u201d said McLaughlin.<\/p>\n
For 33 years, McLaughlin has been left to wonder, searching for that missing piece of the puzzle. Now, there is three hours of conversation, a six-page letter and a\u00a0diary from Dow to be dissected.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he left his brother\u2019s place that night\u00a0he drove north, thinking [they] would go to Edmonton,\u201d McLaughlin says Dow told him during the meeting in the\u00a0Vancouver prison. \u201cIt just makes me think maybe that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s quotes like that, little nuggets of off-hand information, that will keep McLaughlin forever searching for his sister.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t stop. I haven\u2019t been able to carry on with my life. Everyone thinks it\u2019s just like a light switch \u2013\u00a0that I can just turn off the depression and carry on. And they ask, \u2018What would your sister want?\u2019 Well, because we don\u2019t know where she is and what happened, I can\u2019t stop,\u201d said McLaughlin.<\/p>\n
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