Welcome to episode 2 of A Closure Denied. My cold case true crime podcast.  Happy New Year Everyone. I wanted to get my first podcast out to correspond with the anniversary of the cold case murder of Dana Bradley. Going Forward, there will be a new show every Monday.  Today I will be discussing the cold case disappearance of Jennifer Hillier Penney.

“I’ll see you tomorrow. I’ll be down tomorrow evening.”

This was the last thing that Jennifer Hillier-Penney ever said to her sister, Yvonne Hillier-Decker.

An alleged kidnapping and murder haunts a remote Newfoundland town.

The small, remote town of St. Anthony, N.L., located on Newfoundland's northern peninsula, was cold on a Wednesday night in November 2016.

This town certainly has a sense of tension. Over the past 15 years, four people have disappeared from this community of over 2,000. They have never been found. According to the police, Hillier-Penney's disappearance is different from the three other cases that were chalked up to misadventure. Hillier-Penney’s friends say she’d been willing to stay with her daughter at her estranged husband’s house that week because he was out of town, though she still had lingering fears that Penney might stop by the house. Her estranged husband's home was the last place she was seen after she spent the night caring for their youngest daughter.

She discovered her mother's coat, keys, and passport were still on the ground after waking up the next morning.

Jennifer told Deana she was going to lie down because of a headache and to call her when she needed to be picked up.

She came home after her curfew of 9:30 p.m. so she crept into the house so her mother wouldn't know she was late. She went to her bedroom without seeing her mother that night.

Six years ago, Jennifer Hillier-Penney disappeared without a trace, and her brother fears the police will soon declare the case a cold case, leaving the family without closure. Listen on your favorite podcast platform.  

The RCMP encourages anyone with information, no matter how insignificant it may seem, to contact the RCMP Major Crimes Unit West 709-637-4420. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers: #SayItHere 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), visit www.nlcrimestoppers.com or use the P3Tips app.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/evidence-dean-penney-jennifer-hillier-1.5398939

https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2022/rcmp-continues-investigation-disappearance-jennifer-hillier-penney-missing-2016

https://vocm.com/2022/11/30/rcmp-missing-person-jennifer-hillier-penney/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/hillier-penney-disappearance-five-years-1.6264257