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What Degerness would look like today

Only days after his 19th birthday, a composite sketch has been unveiled of what Lucas Degerness would likely look like today. Degerness has been missing since he failed to come home from school on June 7, 2007.
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Only days after his 19th birthday, a composite sketch has been unveiled of what Lucas Degerness would likely look like today.

Degerness has been missing since he failed to come home from school on June 7, 2007. Police, his family and loved ones, and the Missing Children Society of Canada has been searching for him ever since, never knowing if he ran away, was the victim of some unknown accident, or if foul play was involved.

His mother, Gina Degerness, has been waiting for an age-enhanced image for quite some time, and this week it came through via the Prince George RCMP, only days after the Jan. 29 vigil at the Prince George Courthouse to mark his birthday.

"I was so nervous to open that e-mail but I needed to see how he looks," Degerness told The Citizen Friday once she had seen it. "I thought it was going to be an age-enhanced photo so I was disappointed it was a sketch. I am grateful I have this, though, and shall be busy posting it wherever I can. "

She expected it would soon be in wide circulation through RCMP and Missing Children of Canada websites, updated posters and

other communication channels.

"It has made me shaky and am crying. I think the quality is good and am sad that in the sketch, he looks grown up, which in turn, gives me hope," Degerness said. "I want it to go viral on the internet so that it may jog memories, flush him out, or if something bad has happened to him, that whomever knows - and there is someone who knows - that they will have the human decency to at least leave an anonymous valid tip."

Degerness said her boy has missed so many major life events in the family and wants, more than anything, to catch him up on all that has happened while he was away.

"His dad had a heart attack, he is recovering and is a grandpa now. His uncle and aunt passed away. His sister had a baby girl. His brother got married and had a baby. We moved back to Edmonton. His little sister, Jade, has had her 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and soon to be 6th birthday...I miss him so much."

Anyone with any information is asked to call Prince George RCMP at 250-561-3300 or anonymously contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS or go online to www.pgcrimestoppers.bc.ca and click on the tips button.