Ginnean Briggs-Scout’s household desires you to “know her name.”
In an RCMP press release introducing second-degree murder fees versus a 61-year-old guy, authorities explained Ginnean, the target, as “the deceased âĤ a 28-year-old female resident of Lethbridge,” whose body was found in a backwoods near Oyen, Alta.
The Briggs and Scout family members took a seat with CBC News at the Lethbridge home of Ginnean’s moms and dads to discuss their child and guarantee that individuals understand “she wasn’t just some Jane Doe.”
“I just want them to know her name âĤ she’s a sister, she’s a mother, she was a daughter, she’s a granddaughter,” stated Charmayne Scout, Ginnean’s older sis.
The household, along with CBC News, has actually likewise assembled brand-new information concerning the guy charged of murder and his connection with Ginnean.
In the weeks because the RCMP laid fees, the household has actually discovered that the guy apprehended by authorities was somebody they would certainly satisfied previously– an individual Ginnean had actually understood for several years.
CBC News has actually likewise discovered that Garry Dean Brown, the guy encountering a second-degree murder cost, helped the City of Lethbridge.
Several participants of Ginnean Briggs-Scout’s household collected at her moms and dads’ home to discuss their enjoyed one that was eliminated inSeptember Her moms and dads are James and Vicki Briggs, 4th and 5th from the left. (Meghan Grant/ CBC )
Ginnean Briggs-Scout was understood in her household as “silly, outgoing, protective” and “a firecracker.”
She got on dependency via a guy concerning 8 years back, according to her moms and dads, James andVicki Briggs Drugs “took control,” stated her daddy.
But also when it would certainly be weeks in between check-ins, Ginnean would at some point “pop back up,” according to James.
‘He was constantly trying to find her’
At the moment of her fatality, James and Vicki claim Ginnean was living a risky way of life. Along with the dependency, she was operating in Lethbridge’s sex profession, according to her household.
Desiree Scout states it’s via that way of life that her relative, friend and often roomie Ginnean satisfied Garry Dean Brown.
Desiree is soft-spoken and can not discuss Ginnean without wrecking. The 2 girls lived the exact same prone way of life till Desiree obtained tidy and transformed her life around concerning a year back.
As close as siblings, both cohabited on and off.
Desiree states she’s understood Brown, that RCMP claim is from Vulcan County, also longer than Ginnean did. She states he patronized of Ginnean’s that would certainly likewise befriended her.
“He was always around her, he was always looking for her. When he couldn’t find her, he would ask me,” stated Desiree.
“I don’t know what it was about him, but she really got along with him. They were really good friends.”
‘Who is this individual?’
When revealed a photo of Brown, Ginnean’s dad said loudly, “That’s him. That’s him. That’s the same dude that came knocking at our door.”
James and Vicki claim that an “older guy” appeared at their home two times over the in 2015 approximately to speak with them concerning Ginnean.
A year back, the guy informed the household that Ginnean had actually just recently delivered and intended to get in touch with them.
Ginnean Briggs-Scout as an infant with her dad,James Briggs James states he never ever shed hope that he would certainly have the ability to assist Ginnean damage her dependency. (Charmayne Scout)
James states he asked yourself, “Who is this guy? What’s your relationship to my daughter?”
Another time, he involved ask if they would certainly seen Ginnean since she had actually been missing out on for a week.
“He was bugging everybody and going online and asking if anybody knew where she was at,” stated James.
CBC News has actually verified that Brown is a previous staff member with the City of Lethbridge parks and burial grounds division.
In October 2023, the city did a function tale concerning a large blue Adirondack chair that Brown constructed for the neighborhood.
That tale has actually been rubbed from the city’s web site and social media sites accounts, yet a net archive web site called the Wayback Machine permits accessibility to the city’s blog post prior to it was gotten rid of.
The city would certainly not talk about the elimination of the Brown short article, yet did validate he had actually been a worker.
Because of personal privacy legislations, an agent for the city stated it will not talk about what brought about the discontinuation of Brown’s work in June 2024.
Last year, the City of Lethbridge included a tale concerning previous staff member Garry Dean Brown, 61, that constructed a large Adirondack chair for the neighborhood. The city has actually because rubbed any type of reference of Brown from its web site and social media sites web pages. An web archive web site called the Wayback Machine recorded the tale from 2023. (web.archive.org/City of Lethbridge)
On Sept 17, a country landowner called RCMP to report discovering females’s clothes and various other individual products simply off a country roadway in a treed location near Oyen, concerning 350 kilometres northeast of Lethbridge.
Police were sent off to the location and after a search, policemans found Ginnean’s body.
“What the heck was she doing up there?” Vicki marvels.
‘ I require to understand’
The household states they’re irritated with an absence of details from the RCMP and have actually been entrusted to complete the spaces by themselves.
They’re tortured by their concerns.
“We don’t know what happened to her,” statedJames “We don’t know how she looked when she was found, whether she was dressed or not, if there was a sexual assault involved. Nothing, nothing, nothing.”
Ginnean Briggs-Scout’s body was discovered in a backwoods near Oyen, Alta., 8 days after RCMP thought she was eliminated. Local RCMP brought the household to the location so they can see where she was discovered. (Charmayne Scout)
“It’s been hard, really hard. As her parents, it may seem morbid, but it’s stuff for myself, I need to know. I want to know exactly what happened to my daughter.”
Brown’s instance goes to the start of the court procedure. Murder tests typically take greater than a year prior to they’re set up.
The household has actually been making the virtually three-hour drive to Hanna, Alta., to participate in Brown’s quick court looks, the following of which is readied to happen later on today.
“She’s not just an ‘Indigenous, 28, female, found,'” statedVicki “She’s more than that and that’s what we’re trying to prove to the court.”
CBC News connected to Brown’s attorney, Scott Hadford, yet did not get a recall.
‘ An assurance per various other’
When asked why Ginnean had not been called in the news release, an agent for the RCMP stated it was likely a “miscommunication.” RCMP claim the household was informed her name would not be launched and “seemed good with that.”
In response to the household’s problem concerning an absence of interaction, RCMP stated a police officer would certainly connect in the following couple of days “as a normal, routine family contact.”
For the Briggs and Scout family members, among one of the most unpleasant components of Ginnean’s fatality is the shed chance to draw her out of her dependency.
Ginnean Briggs-Scout, right, imagined with her brother or sisters. She was called a safety and caring girl. (Charmayne Scout )
They’d never ever shed hope that they can eventually obtain her back.
“We made a promise to each other that if one of us got clean, the other one would get clean too,” stated Desiree.
“When I talked to her a few months before [her death], I let her know that I was clean and she was like ‘that’s really good for you.'”
‘She was enjoyed’
Before the dependency took control, Ginnean remained in cosmetology college.
Desiree’s mama, Heather Scout, that was Ginnean’s “favourite aunty,” stated she seems like she failed her niece.
“After I got my daughter sober, I was coming after my niece … the plans were, I was going to get her back into school.”
“She was loved,” stated James.
“Both me and the wife feel like somebody just reached inside of us and pulled a part of us out and we’ll never get it back, and we had a lot of hopes and dreams for her which will never materialize now.”
