Family holds vigil for Amber Guiboche 6 years after her disappearance
'She’s not garbage. She’s somebody,' says sister
Amber Guiboche wanted to become a nurse and loved being an auntie, but on Monday evening family and friends gathered in Winnipeg to remember the woman who has been missing for six years.
"She is somebody to me," Amber's sister, Ashley Geddes, said. "I feel like she deserves it. She's so beautiful. She's not garbage. She's somebody."
A group of people gathered around Geddes with candles and sang songs during the vigil at the monument for missing and murdered Indigenous women at the Forks.
Guiboche had just turned 20 when she went missing Nov. 10, 2010. She was last seen in the area of William Avenue and Isabel Street in Winnipeg.
In 2014, police released a vehicle description and sketch of a person of interest in her case, but no other details of her disappearance have been made public.
The family held their first vigil for Guiboche in 2015 to renew calls for justice in her case.
"It makes you sick to your stomach," she said. "I am sitting at home. I'm sleeping in my bed at night and what if she's chained up somewhere? What if she's hurting?"
Sharing memories of her fun, kind and stubborn sister, Geddes added that her family needs closure and so do many others.
"I think it's important because it's not even just for her, it's for all of these women and men," she said.