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See your Jeep dealer for details. 27-year-old Holly Ellsworth-Clark of Calgary has been missing in Hamilton since last weekend. Holly was a gold medal champion wrestler at the University of Calgary and a singer-songwriter who was in Hamilton pursuing a career. And Hamilton police are heavily engaged in the search for Holly.
And family and friends from Calgary are in Hamilton as well, including her father, Dave Clark. Mr. Clark joins us on the program. Mr.
Clark, first of all, I'm sure this is a really horrifying experience for you, very disturbing, not knowing the whereabouts of your daughter. But the caring of Holly's friends in the greater Hamilton community and this community's involvement searching for your daughter must be comforting to you. Well, it is really quite amazing the way people have come together to help us, that's for sure. Was Holly comfortable and secure in the city of Hamilton?
Well, you know, she was alone. She moved here following a bandmate after a breakup of the band and then they really hadn't made any progress as far as starting up a new band. So she was just working on solo stuff and trying to get a solo album together. She had a bunch of songs that she was ready to record and had plans made to put an album together.
And really, I'm asking you these questions as well because you never know if somebody could be listening to this program, not only in the city of Hamilton, but in Ontario or beyond Ontario and in the other provinces, the other four provinces where we broadcast. They may know something, they may hear you say something that catches their attention and gives them an opportunity to call police and share what they know. Can you tell us a bit about her life in the city as she was pursuing her music career? You know, she was just going to open mics and living in a house with a bunch of other musicians and in a place with some recording studio.
And she, you know, working another job sort of on her computer and a distant job. And, you know, beyond that, I really don't know. We don't really know what has happened to Holly. So that's one of the issues.
All the leads that we have are important. And you never know. I mean, like I said, somebody could hear you say something or read something. And it's just a small thing to make someone say, hey, I know about that.
Sure. She's a, you know, she's a wonderful performer. She's a large presence. At least she can be when she wants to be.
So both physically and sort of in terms of her personality. And that would be great. I do want to talk to Rory about a few problems that we've had with the search. That would be all right.
Sure, please go ahead. I just want to offer some constructive sort of feedback that might help in further cases. Would that be all right? Absolutely.
Okay. And before I do that, I just want to talk about how wonderful the people of Hamilton are, all the people on the street that we've met and talked to. They've offered so much support. And the Eucharist Church has offered their space for us to organize searches.
And all the other churches and organizations, they've had us in their prayers. And they've been out looking for Holly and organizing things. People at the hospital, all the wonderful people in the Hamilton Police Department. All the people in the police forces in the surrounding district, everybody that we've contacted has been very supportive and helpful.
Impressive printing and staples offered a whole bunch of free stuff to us. It's just wonderful, the outpouring of support that we've got. So I don't want to sound like I'm just complaining and upset. But I do have some constructive criticism that would probably help in further searches.
Please go ahead, Mr. Clark. Okay, so for instance, we went out yesterday to contact all day. We're trying to extend the search outside of Hamilton now.
We contacted police departments, first of all, so they could guide us to shelters and things like that where Holly might be. We just, again, we're searching because we don't have any idea where she is. And none of the police departments was actually aware of her disappearance, which really surprised me because we've been assured that a larger alert had gone out. So some kind of zone alert or bolo had gone out.
But that didn't raise the awareness of the police in any of the surrounding regions. I mean, not one of them, to the point where they actually knew who Holly was when we asked them or recognized her picture. So the only way they would actually be able to tell if Holly was in their area would be to find somebody and have her tell them that it was Holly. And then they would find it if they looked it up.
So I mean, I think it's just a fundamental problem in the inter-police department communication. And I think it's really important for our police to have the tools that they need to do the job because we have so many thousands of people go missing in this country every year. And a lot of them in Hamilton. It would just be wonderful if we could assist the police in making it more possible for them to do the job that they want to do.
Everybody that I've talked to, you know, they talk about having their own daughters, their own sons, who they would really want to be brought home. And so they're all very sympathetic and supportive. But there are just systems and practices in place that mean that things don't get done. And we all want them to get done.
Another one today was at the mall. We got a tip up at the mall, one of the malls. I don't want to say which one because it's being investigated right now. But that Holly had been seen.
And then we had another organization that has been helping us, the Dream Team. They mainly search for pets. But they came and brought their dogs. And they said that they definitely found Holly's scent at the mall.
So it sounds like a wonderful tip. But we've spent more than 24 hours trying to actually get access to mall cameras so that we could see if Holly was there. And it's just a matter of the policies. Did you know that the policy is that the mall looks for the photographs first?
They won't let us look at the pictures. And then if they find somebody, something, if they want, at their discretion, they'll forward it to the police. So it's just a more than 24-hour gap between the tip that we were given and us knowing anything. We still don't know anything really about that tip.
It's stunning to hear that. It's stunning to hear that you wouldn't be immediately asked, given the tip, immediately asked to look at the video. The number of Catch-22 situations that we've gotten into is just shocking. Personally, I think this is the kind of thing that might have been discovered at the recent inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women.
I didn't read all of that, but I didn't hear anything about specific things like this. And they might really help. That must be extremely discouraging to you. I don't know how, just on a human level, I don't know how someone says, well, we won't let the family look at the video before we look at it.
It's just shocking. My daughter was sitting there, you know, these people have so much power over. It's such an important thing in your life. They just have to play along with them.
And the people, the security people that we dealt with, we're trying their best to be helpful, but they have their jobs to do and have their policy that if they don't follow it, follow it, they're going to be in deep trouble. Mr. Clark, did the police become involved in trying to get access to that video, that mall video? Yes, but you know what?
They have the same understanding that the mall does, which is that they have no right to that video until the mall says that they do. So even though the police were informed yesterday at, as far as I know, one or two o'clock, today when I left the mall at one or two o'clock, nobody had been there and nobody had seen the video. All right. It's just really amazing.
And as I said, the other thing, the other shocking thing was yesterday, we sent out teams of people to the surrounding areas and the local police departments didn't know. So there's something that's broken or hasn't been properly built in interconnecting our police departments because they obviously need that. So not only was there, well, there couldn't be. Cooperation between the departments.
The other departments didn't know that your daughter was, in fact, missing. Well, you know, if they looked her up, if they looked her up, they would find that she was missing. But there was nothing to incentivize them to actually look at a picture first and say, okay, this person is missing in our area. Maybe we should look for her.
It's really stunning because it's everywhere in media. And you would think that someone in the police departments would see, hear, or read a news story about your daughter and go to work and bring it up. Not one person. I personally went in the direction of Niagara and others went in the other direction.
And the people that I talked to hadn't heard of it. When they looked her up, they said, oh, yes, there's a zone order. But that doesn't really mean very much. That's what we were told.
In the other direction, we've gone as far as London and Woodstock and, of course, all the closer communities. And not one police department had actually had it raised to the level of actually knowing. I take it. They take them out now.
They know now because we've brought posters to them. But they still haven't, as far as I know, directly been asked by the Hamilton police. I don't want to say what's been done in that regard because I don't want to smear anybody or anything like that. That's not my purpose.
There's something not working here. What now, Mr. Clark? We're just waiting.
We're praying that this tip is legit now. From my point of view, nothing has worked out so far, so I won't be surprised if it turns out to be somebody who's not Holly in that video. I won't be surprised. I'm just kind of disappointed that it's 24 hours later and I haven't been able to rule it out.
Because that's a lot of our resources that are pointing in that direction. And we're trying our best to look everywhere. And so it's hard. And the police are facing a bad issue.
They're facing their lack of communication issue. They're facing silly warrant laws. I don't know if anybody has seen. There was a video that one of the people on our team put up and I guess unfortunately comments got a little weird so we had to take it down to our venture at the Budget Inn.
And again, it was just following up a lead that we'd been given, a tip that we had been given that Holly was there. We had no real idea that she was there apart from the tips that we had been given, but there were many of them so we had to follow it up. And the police come to the location of the Budget Inn where I guarantee, I'll tell you for sure, there was a lot of prostitution happening and a lot of drug deals happening. And they tell me that they can't search room to room because they have to get 48 warrants for 48 rooms.
So that just seems to be another tool missing. Well, I hope you can get truly open lines of communication between everyone because the objective here is to find your daughter and bring her home safely. That's the only objective. That is the core objective here.
Mr. Park, thank you for talking to us. And I'm sure what you just shared with me will cause some pause and hopefully action on behalf of everyone. I really hope so too.
And I really, really appreciate your help. And as I mentioned, all of the people, all of the people who have been reaching out to us and helping us, those Dream Team people with their dogs, they volunteer that. There's another organization called Guardians of Our Angels and they look for missing people. And they have been tireless and on the ground and looking for Holly everywhere that they have an idea that they can find her.
And you, I want to thank you, Roy, and the media people and just everybody. Well, if there's anything that we can do to provide any kind of assistance, support, we would be more than glad to do that. I just want to let everyone know that you can get in touch. The website for the Hamilton Police is hamiltonpolice.on.ca, hamiltonpolice.on.ca.
Mr. Clark, is there a website of contact information for anyone who has legitimate information and wants to pass it on to you or should they contact the police? Well, if they have legitimate information, by all means contact the police. There's also a website.
And if you see our posters, there's lots of information on there. But I think there's a website. You know, I'm going to give the wrong one, but the one I remember is BringHollyHome2020. But, you know, I'll check back with you.
If you can research that and get that out, that would be great. Yeah, I'll check back with you. And I will find that website. I'll get it out on my social media platform.
I really appreciate that. I really appreciate that. I do what I can, but I just, my brain can't keep track of everything. No, I can't imagine what you want.
I can't do my best, but thank you. Mr. Clark, you take care. And I'll be back in touch with you.
We'll get that website and we'll get it up on our social media platforms. Thank you so much, Roy. All the best, sir. I mean, thank you, sir.
Bye-bye. Dave Clark. Imagine the agony of the family. And if you have legitimate information, you can get in touch.
Let me just again give you the Hamilton, Ontario Police website. It's HamiltonPolice, one word, HamiltonPolice.on.ca.