Caitlin Potts was reported missing Feb. 22, 2016 and she still has not been found (submitted photo/RCMP)

By Pete McIntyre

puzzling disappearance

Five years later, still no answers about what happened to Caitlin Potts

Feb 23, 2021 | 4:00 AM

Caitlin Potts’s family has suffered for five years without answers following the sudden and unexplained disappearance of their loved one in 2016.

Monday February 22, 2021 marked the grim anniversary, as Caitlin Brandy Potts was last heard from on February 22, 2016. Caitlin was reported to the Vernon North Okanagan RCMP as a missing person on March 1, 2016. She was 27 years old at the time of her disappearance in Enderby, and she would now be 32.

As the police investigation into Caitlin’s puzzling disappearance progressed, investigators believed that criminality was involved and therefore the RCMP Southeast District Major Crime Unit (MCU) became involved and ultimately took over the file.

In April of 2017, major crime investigators released a clip captured from video surveillance at the Orchard Park Shopping Centre on Harvey Avenue in Kelowna. The video surveillance footage showed Caitlin as she entered into the Hudson’s Bay retail store on February 21, 2016.

“Over the past five years Major Crime investigators have received, analyzed and investigated 25 public tips and pursued hundreds of investigative leads in the case,” stated Supt. Sanjaya Wijayakoon, Operations Officer of the BC RCMP Major Crime Section. “Although Caitlin has not been found yet, the Southeast District Major Crime Unit remains committed to finding out what has happened to Caitlin so that we can provide answers to her friends, family and loved ones.”

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The Major Crime team met personally this past week with Caitlin’s mother, Priscilla Potts, who has renewed her plea for information surrounding the disappearance of her daughter.

Click here to view a video message from Priscilla Potts, Caitlin’s mom.

Priscilla Potts, Caitlin’s mother (submitted image)

Investigators ask that anyone with any information on the case to immediately contact the Southeast District Major Crime Unit information line at 1-877-987-8477.

Or if you would prefer to remain completely anonymous, you can share your information with BC Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-8477.

Click here to view the original news release (March 4, 2016)

Click here to view previous news release (March 21, 2016)

Click here to view previous news release (March 24, 2016)

Click here to view previous news release (April 26, 2017)