Jean Virginia (Ginny) Sampare is a Canadian woman who went missing on Thursday, October 14, 1971, outside Gitsegukla, British Columbia, Canada.

Despite the police and local community searching nearby areas for her for the 8 days following her disappearance, their efforts proved unsuccessful.

She worked at the Royal Packing Company salmon canning plant in Claxton and was described as a healthy, normal 18-year-old woman.

[1][2][3] Growing up, Sampare was described as a shy, quiet child who sang teasing songs to her siblings.

Alvin believed at the time that Sampare was going to a store that was close to the railroad overpass outside of town.

Violet reported that Alvin came back to the highway and heard a vehicle door close, but Sampare was nowhere to be seen.

Someone at the band office mistakenly said that they had to wait a certain amount of time before reporting the disappearance to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

Even after waiting and rather than reporting it, the band office sent someone to South Hazelton and Kitimat to see if she was with her sisters Winnie or Anna, but she was not.

The RCMP checked with Anna, Winnie, and Sampare's friends and other family and confirmed that no one had made contact with her since she was last seen by Alvin.

[5] At one point Rod claimed that he saw part of the RCMP file on Sampare, which indicated that a man named Kenny Russell saw her footprints next to the river, leading to the presumption that she went in.

The village initiated the search and the RCMP joined in later with a police dog from Peace River and officers from other towns.

[2] Gitsegukla is a village located in the Skeena Valley between Hazelton and Kitwanga, British Columbia.

Animals in the area include salmon, trout, eagle, ravens, robins, black bears, elk, lynx, owl, coyotes, wolves and deer.

[9] Both Winnie and Rod Sampare have talked to the media about their sister's disappearance and they spoke along with Victoria at an inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in September 2017.

Her band at one time had tried to list her as being deceased; however, after pushback from Sampare's mother, they changed her status back to missing.

In addition to this, Sampare's parents raised her to know not to commit suicide; instilling this attitude in both her and her siblings frequently.

Although she may have been under stress, it was not in her nature to break contact with her relations so abruptly and for such a prolonged period of time, and Sampare always told someone her plans.

[2] In addition to this, though it was a cold night, Sampare left her jacket at home, which indicated that she was not planning on being outside for long.