Search for missing Yellowknife woman continues

Mounties in Yellowknife are expanding the search area for a mentally ill woman who has been missing since the weekend.

Angela Meyer, 21, was last seen on Saturday at around 1:20 p.m. MT outside a home on 54th Street. She was not wearing gloves or a hat at the time.

Police say she has a mental illness and it is not known if she had brought her medication with her.

On Tuesday, members of the Yellowknife Search and Rescue and Yellowknife RCMP widened their ground search to the trail around Frame Lake.

Searchers are also using a helicopter to scour the trail, as well as Tin Can Hill and other wooded areas in the south part of the city.

"[She'] very approachable, she's a very approachable person. Very nice," Candace Meyer said of her sister.

Meyer said her sister was on a weekend pass from the psychiatric ward at the Stanton Hospital and only had enough medication — including insulin, anti-depressants and anti-psychotics — to last the weekend.

Meyer said her sister shows noticeable signs when she doesn't take her medication.

"She tends to get a little goofy, she'll get kind of loud, laugh out loud, paces — she paces quite a bit — her hands get shaky," Meyer said.

Angela Meyer is described as an Inuit woman about five feet ten inches tall and weighing about 230 pounds.

She was last seen wearing a white Helly Hansen winter coat, black yoga pants, a black T-shirt, black socks and grey winter boots. Her fingernails were manicured with a black design on them.

Anyone who has seen Meyer is asked to contact the Yellowknife RCMP detachment.