Police are asking anyone who can provide leads to Tamra's whereabouts to call:
(866)-80-TAMRA.
July 5, 2004--Tamra is last seen going to bed Monday night.
8:30pm Dean McArthur leaves after an argument with Lorena Keepness. McArthur runs into Russell Sheepshin, they start drinking, sometime during that period. They return briefly to drop off a can of formula for McArthur's daughter, an eight month old girl. Then they go to the bar.
11:00pm Lorena puts the kids to bed and leaves to visit a friend's townhouse. Eleven year old Summer Keepness is left in charge. There are no adults in the house.
Midnight, Lorena Keepness drops in at the house briefly to check on the kids. When she gets back to friend's townhouse, calls Summer with the phone number.
July 6, 2004--3:00am Russell Sheepshin comes into the bedroom. He's made himself a plate of spaghetti. He can't remember when he got in. He's the only adult in the house. He says he saw Tamra on the couch. Around this time, Dean McArthur returns to check on the kids, allegedly beats up Sheepshin on the porch (he's charged only, not convicted) and leaves. Sheepskin leaves to get stitched up at the hospital and never enters the house again.
3:15 or 3:30am Lorena Keepness returns, climbs throught the window, and falls asleep on the couch. She remains in the house from then until Tamra is reported missing.
Between 3:00am and 5:00 or 5:30am Dean McArthur claims he's wandering around downtown in a drunken haze looking for his aunt's house. He gets there about 5:00 or 5:30am and crashes on the couch. He doesn't return home until late the next evening, many hours after Tamra is reported missing.
11:30am Tamra's family calls police to report her missing.
July 8, 2004--Police string tape around the house where Tamra lives with her mother and five siblings. Officers remove various items from the home as evidence. Police say there are no signs of struggle or forced entry at the home. More than 20 officers and 30 search and rescue volunteers, as well as family and friends, have been searching Regina's streets and back alleys.
July 9, 2004--Tamra's mother, Lorena Keepness, accuses Regina police of delaying their search for her daughter while they investigated the family. Regina police put another 50 officers on the search and expand it beyond the nine-block area around Tamra's home.
July 10, 2004--Police expand the search for Tamra to include more than 100 blocks east of Regina's downtown core. Cadets from the RCMP training academy join the search.
July 11, 2004--The search is expanded to include the woods and meadows on the city's outskirts. Police confirm that the fruitless search of Wascana Creek was undertaken because of visions from aboriginal elders.
July 12, 2004--Regina police call off the official search for Tamra.
July 13, 2004--Regina police offer a $25,000 reward to anyone providing leads to Tamra's location. But Regina police Chief Cal Johnston says any hope of finding Tamra alive diminishes each day. Police say the search for Tamra will resume if they receive more information, but they have run out of places to look for now.
July 14, 2004--Regina police begin to investigate the family. They say there were unexplained comings and goings on the night she disappeared. Tamra's stepfather, Dean McArthur, says Tamra's mother was not home on the night Tamra disappeared, and the family has become "key targets" of the investigation. The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations says First Nations volunteers will continue the search for Tamra.
July 15, 2004--Saskatchewan becomes the last Canadian province to implement an Amber Alert system. Police say the system would not have helped Tamra. To issue an Amber Alert, police must have evidence the child has been abducted, and a description or licence plate number of the suspected kidnapper.
Police provide a description of two vehicles they believe could help the case: An orange 1973 Volkswagen van and a red and silver GMC pickup truck. The stepfather of Tamra, Dean McArthur, is charged with assult causing bodily harm after an incident on the night Tamra disappeared. Police say the victim of the alleged assault was a 33 year old man who received stitches over his eye.
July 21, 2004--Officials from Saskatchewan's Child Protection Branch remove the five remaining children living in Tamra's home. No reason is given for the removal.
July 23, 2004--Police begin a search of a rural area northeast of Regina, including a provincial park and an aboriginal reserve, after receiving reports of strangers walking throug a field in the area asking for directions.
July 31, 2004--Dean McArthur is granted bail after being charged with assault. McArthur says the charge has nothing to do with Tamra's disappearance.
August 1, 2004--After a two day search Regina police decide to stop looking for Tamra in the Pasqua aboriginal reserve. Aboriginal volunteer say they will continue to hunt the sex square kilometre area, using visions from the community's elders and an American medicine man for guidance.