Madison Scott's disappearance haunted Vanderhoof for 12 years. Now, the community is grappling with her death

Madison Scott’s face is everywhere you turn in Vanderhoof. It’s plastered on billboards plastered every few kilometres along the highway into town. It’s on store windows and truck bumper stickers and enlarged on the side of a building.

She was 20 years old when she was last seen, the posters say. She was five feet four inches tall with ginger hair down to her shoulders, a piercing in her left nostril and the silhouette of a bird on the inside of her left wrist.

For the past decade, these posters and billboards have been put up in the hope that Scott might someday be found