The RCMP’s Lack of Accountability & Slow Response To Suspicious Activity Caused Case To Go Cold

In 2017, 17-year-old Brayden Thibault went missing from Fredericton, NB, (Canada) while visiting friends. Immediately, police told his mother they believed he'd been murdered, but they didn't treat the case as a suspected homicide until two years later. Brayden's whereabouts remain unknown. How much of a role has this played in the apparent lack of movement on this case. Now turned Cold Case.

This has had a negative impact on this case. It takes a lot for Cops to say such a statement emphatically. They made his mother believe for sure her son was dead, but then never took the appropriate steps in solving, said, Homicide. Or at least their investigation took a while to show any actual actions being taken.

Brayden Thibault was last seen in the afternoon of Monday 31st July 2017 on Gibson Street in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and has not been seen since. The seventeen year old lived in St. Stephen (around an hour and a half away from Fredericton) and had been visiting friends for two weeks before he vanished. Police began treating Brayden's disappearance as "suspicious" three months later and they now believe he was murdered.

Initial searches revealed little of what may have become of Brayden and although rumours were rife throughout Fredericton and the wider community, concrete details surrounding the teen's disappearance are scant. His mother, Amanda Frigault, said: "I don't know if he was seen in a vehicle, on the side of the road, in a store, in a house. I have no idea."

Law enforcement told Amanda almost immediately they thought Brayden had been murdered, but it wasn't until 30th July 2019 they would officially announce they'd changed the classification of Brayden's case from missing person to suspected homicide. #BraydenThibault #Canada #MissingInCanada #FoulPlay #UnsolvedMystery