Noelle was missing for a year before her body was found in a Downtown Eastside apartment. Her family wants answers from police, government.
“She was named Noelle because he was born on Christmas Day,” Noelle’s maternal aunt Michelle Munch said. “My sister wanted a girl so bad and she kept having boys, boys. Finally, she had her girl, and it was right on Christmas Day.”Noelle O’Soup at age two. Family photo supplied by Michelle MunchFor many years, Noelle’s parents raised their children, but due to addictions and other challenges, the kids were eventually put in the foster care system.
“I just don’t want people to paint my niece as this runaway. She was a little girl. She was only 13 when she went missing,” said Munch. Munch came back when Noelle was about seven and living with her mom in some type of supported housing, and then again when Noelle was 10 and the kids were in foster care. At the last gathering in 2017, which was organized by the B.C. Ministry for Children and Families, Munch showed her niece and nephews how to sew beads on a traditional Indigenous blanket — something that Noelle really enjoyed.
After Noelle disappeared in May 2021, Munch began having monthly meetings with the ministry to help find her. She was surprised to learn that the 13 year old had been living in a group home, and wants to know if the ministry has investigated why she ran away. In an email, Coquitlam RCMP said the missing person bulletin was only one tool it used to try to find Noelle. The others included multi-jurisdictional searches, posting her photo on electronic billboards, and sharing info with local and national missing person units.
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