Local
Cliffs focus of search for woman
By CARL CLUTCHEY
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

A police search for a Toronto woman who went missing at Rainbow Falls Provincial Park last summer is to resume in late May or early June, and will involve officers experienced in scaling steep cliffs.
“We‘re going back in (the park), and we hope to able to confirm the exact date soon,” Nipigon provincial police Staff Sgt. Brent Anderson said Tuesday.
Anderson said the search for 20-year-old day-care worker Christina Calayca will require about a dozen OPP officers trained in search techniques, including five who can rappel off rocks.
Calayca was last seen Aug. 6, 2007 at the rugged park about 180 kilometres east of Thunder Bay. She had been camping with friends and had gone out for a jog the morning of her disappearance.
Police conducted an exhaustive air and ground search for several weeks, but did not find a trace of the petite, single woman of Filipino descent.
While investigators have not completely ruled out foul play, they do not suspect that she was abducted.
An attempt by OPP to launch a second search last fall was called off due to bad weather. Police said at the time that they were looking at a recovery operation, not a rescue.
Anderson said the search is expected to resume as early as next month and be concentrated around cliff areas that officers were unable to get to last summer in the 10-km search area.
“There were some places, because of the terrain, that we just couldn‘t get to,” said Anderson.
Calayca‘s family members have reportedly hired a private search firm that plans to look in the park after the OPP has completed its operation.