People are encouraged to leave their porch lights on for Lisa Marie Young on the evening of Tuesday, June 30. (Submitted photo)

By Ian Holmes

Lights on

Lights on for Lisa event marks 18 years since Nanaimo woman disappeared

Jun 30, 2020 | 5:58 PM

NANAIMO — Supporters of a Nanaimo woman missing for 18 years are encouraging people to keep their porch lights on to help guide her home.

Lights on for Lisa was organized as a sign of hope in guiding Lisa Marie Young home after going missing in Nanaimo on June 30, 2002.

“I want her killers to know just how many people support us, how many people in the community want them off the streets and want them to pay for what they did to Lisa,” Young’s friend Cyndy Hall told NanaimoNewsNOW.

About 100 people showed up for Young’s annual justice march in downtown Nanaimo on Sunday, June 28.

The Bastion structure on Front St. will be lit lime green, Young’s favourite colour, in her honour on Tuesday night.

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Interest in Young’s case has vastly increased recently following the release of an eight episode investigative podcast series by independent producer Laura Palmer.

Her series has been downloaded about 50,000 times.

Hall said she’s encouraged by the added publicity the podcast is generating, but is also reminded how angry this ordeal makes her knowing people have answers in Young’s disappearance.

“We feel pain, we feel happiness with the support, we feel frustration, it’s just a mix of emotions,” Hall said.

RCMP believe Young is a homicide victim.

No arrests or charges have been made in her case.

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