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#25 - The Disappearance of Mekayla Bali

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Michaela Bolle withdrew $55 after telling friends she had about $5,000 in her account.

1. Unsolved Canadian Mysteries covers the disappearance of Michaela Bolle, who vanished from Yorkton, Saskatchewan on April 12, 2016. 2. Kenton DeYoung hosts the episode with co-host Dylan Fairman, and their banter frames the case as a recent Saskatchewan disappearance. 3. The episode asks what happened to a 16-year-old Sacred Heart High School student who told friends she was going on vacation. 4. Michaela’s mother described her as quiet, shy, a homebody, and an introvert, while the hosts note that she used Snapchat and Kik to talk to people. 5. A bouquet of flowers arrived at school in February 2016 with no name attached, and Michaela would not say who sent it. 6. On April 11, 2016, she texted friends that she was going away soon and wanted to go to Regina or Saskatchewan. 7. The same day, she asked a friend for a ride to the bank, called TD Bank three times, and deposited $25. 8. At 6:00 p.m., she texted Shelby and Amy, and the name Christopher came up in the conversation. 9. The next morning at 6:41 a.m., she again asked for a ride to the bank, and her friend said the bank did not open until 9:00. 10. Between 8:10 and 8:20 a.m., her grandmother dropped her at school, and security cameras later showed her leaving along train tracks toward the bank. 11. At 8:55 a.m., she was outside the bank on her phone, and at 9:00 a.m. she went inside and withdrew $55. 12. The hosts stress that the bank records did not match the $5,000 balance Michaela had mentioned to friends. 13. After the bank, she tried to sell a silver ring at a pawn shop, but the sale did not go through. 14. At Tim Hortons, security footage showed her arriving with a backpack, sitting near the doors, leaving, circling the building, and returning inside. 15. Around 10:12 a.m., she texted Shelby that she needed help, then later wrote, “never mind, I figured it out.” 16. At 10:43 a.m., she asked a stranger for help renting a hotel room for the night, and the woman said no. 17. Michaela then went to the Trail Shop restaurant near the bus depot, and the hosts note that no internal cameras showed what happened there. 18. The episode says police needed 10 months to access her social-media records, and a Snapchat bio read, “Looking for Snapchat friends because I have none in real life.” 19. The tone is conversational, skeptical, and speculative, with repeated side comments about Regina, Yorkton, and the limits of the available records. 20. People interested in Saskatchewan true-crime timelines and social-media clues will get the most from this episode.

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A blunt, conversational missing-person case with a skeptical edge.

This episode on Michaela Bolley's disappearance from York, Saskatchewan on April 12, 2016 keeps a brisk, conversational pace. The hosting feels loose at times, even a little tangled, but that roughness also makes the chronology feel lived in instead of pinned down for effect.

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