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On Sept. 14, an Ottawa mother with no legal training is hauling billion-dollar tech giants Apple, Google, Facebook and Bell into court to help answer a basic but haunting question.
How did her son die?
Maureen Henry, 54, refuses to believe that suicide was the reason her son, Dovi, was found washed up on the shores of Lake Ontario in central Toronto on July 27, 2014.
Only 23, his body was badly decomposed and the case became one of unidentified remains that sat in a morgue for nearly two years, with no name or cause of death.
It was not until April 29, 2016, after the police investigation had gone silent, that Maureen Henry’s own internet searching on a missing-person website led to a check of dental records. It was him, after all.
She had searched for Dovi for nearly 18 months and, all along, he had been lying in a Toronto morgue.
So, even three years later, she is not giving up on the quest for answers.
“As a mother, I just need the peace to know exactly what happened to my son. I just keep going over the whole thing in my head. It just keeps replaying over and over and over, and it doesn’t stop. I need this answer.”
Henry believes an important piece of the puzzle is Dovi’s digital footprint in his final weeks and days. She knows he was active with email and texting and thinks the messages and phone records are important clues.
Henry said one laptop and a cellphone appear to be missing. She asked the technology companies for access to his accounts but was told a court order would be required.
So, with a little direction and a quick lesson on the Rules of Civil Procedure in Ontario, she filled out a Form 14E with the Superior Court and filed it Aug. 17.
In neat, hand-drawn letters, it asks Google Canada, Apple Canada, Facebook and Bell Mobility to provide access to all Dovi’s accounts.
Maureen Henry holds a photograph of her son, Dovi.
Registered letters were sent to the companies and Henry is still unclear whether they will attend the hearing.
(On its website, Google says: “In certain circumstances we may provide content from a deceased user’s account. In all of these cases, our primary responsibility is to keep people’s information secure, safe, and private. We cannot provide passwords or other login details. Any decision to satisfy a request about a deceased user will be made only after a careful review.”)
“I can’t let Dovi’s death be in vain. How can we use his death for something better?”
Dovi, an aspiring poet, graduated from Glebe Collegiate and began attending the University of Toronto in 2009. He complained of being racially singled out by police on campus and there were conflicts with at least one roommate at his fraternity, said Maureen.
He did have bouts of loneliness and, academically, had ups and downs, including temporarily leaving school altogether.
Though Dovi would sometimes go weeks without talking to his mother, in 2014, the year he died, there was a confirmed contact on May 5 when he came to Ottawa for a poetry event at the Mercury Lounge in the ByWard Market.
Maureeen said several people saw or spoke to him in the ensuing weeks, meaning he could not have been in the water that long by July 27.
He was neither transient nor destitute, as he had a bank balance of $3,000.
Once in the gifted school program, he grew to be a striking figure — tall, thin, with long dreadlocks much of his life — and had a strong creative side, which expressed itself in poetry (written and spoken) and music. He loved the word game Scrabble and carried a portable chessboard in his pocket.
Maureen is not happy with the response from Toronto police, though detectives there say they spent considerable time trying to identify his remains. Once they had his identity, they were never persuaded there was any criminal involvement.
The coroner, meanwhile, said the cause of death was undetermined. Dovi’s mother doesn’t think authorities went far enough in their followup work. They never obtained warrants, for instance, for his online accounts.
Since the Citizen told Dovi’s story last September, she’s been contacted by a television crew interested in documenting his disappearance and by an American group that uses mediums to help locate and retrace the steps of the missing.
“Regardless of race, religion, political status, social class, every single solitary citizen,” said Maureen, “their life should count for something. There’s no way that you should be finding bodies. It’s almost like we’re disposable.”
To contact Kelly Egan, please call 613-726-5896 or email kegan@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/kellyegancolumn
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How did her son die?
Maureen Henry, 54, refuses to believe that suicide was the reason her son, Dovi, was found washed up on the shores of Lake Ontario in central Toronto on July 27, 2014.
Only 23, his body was badly decomposed and the case became one of unidentified remains that sat in a morgue for nearly two years, with no name or cause of death.
It was not until April 29, 2016, after the police investigation had gone silent, that Maureen Henry’s own internet searching on a missing-person website led to a check of dental records. It was him, after all.
She had searched for Dovi for nearly 18 months and, all along, he had been lying in a Toronto morgue.
So, even three years later, she is not giving up on the quest for answers.
“As a mother, I just need the peace to know exactly what happened to my son. I just keep going over the whole thing in my head. It just keeps replaying over and over and over, and it doesn’t stop. I need this answer.”
Henry believes an important piece of the puzzle is Dovi’s digital footprint in his final weeks and days. She knows he was active with email and texting and thinks the messages and phone records are important clues.
Henry said one laptop and a cellphone appear to be missing. She asked the technology companies for access to his accounts but was told a court order would be required.
So, with a little direction and a quick lesson on the Rules of Civil Procedure in Ontario, she filled out a Form 14E with the Superior Court and filed it Aug. 17.
In neat, hand-drawn letters, it asks Google Canada, Apple Canada, Facebook and Bell Mobility to provide access to all Dovi’s accounts.
Maureen Henry holds a photograph of her son, Dovi.
Registered letters were sent to the companies and Henry is still unclear whether they will attend the hearing.
(On its website, Google says: “In certain circumstances we may provide content from a deceased user’s account. In all of these cases, our primary responsibility is to keep people’s information secure, safe, and private. We cannot provide passwords or other login details. Any decision to satisfy a request about a deceased user will be made only after a careful review.”)
“I can’t let Dovi’s death be in vain. How can we use his death for something better?”
Dovi, an aspiring poet, graduated from Glebe Collegiate and began attending the University of Toronto in 2009. He complained of being racially singled out by police on campus and there were conflicts with at least one roommate at his fraternity, said Maureen.
He did have bouts of loneliness and, academically, had ups and downs, including temporarily leaving school altogether.
Though Dovi would sometimes go weeks without talking to his mother, in 2014, the year he died, there was a confirmed contact on May 5 when he came to Ottawa for a poetry event at the Mercury Lounge in the ByWard Market.
Maureeen said several people saw or spoke to him in the ensuing weeks, meaning he could not have been in the water that long by July 27.
He was neither transient nor destitute, as he had a bank balance of $3,000.
Once in the gifted school program, he grew to be a striking figure — tall, thin, with long dreadlocks much of his life — and had a strong creative side, which expressed itself in poetry (written and spoken) and music. He loved the word game Scrabble and carried a portable chessboard in his pocket.
Maureen is not happy with the response from Toronto police, though detectives there say they spent considerable time trying to identify his remains. Once they had his identity, they were never persuaded there was any criminal involvement.
The coroner, meanwhile, said the cause of death was undetermined. Dovi’s mother doesn’t think authorities went far enough in their followup work. They never obtained warrants, for instance, for his online accounts.
Since the Citizen told Dovi’s story last September, she’s been contacted by a television crew interested in documenting his disappearance and by an American group that uses mediums to help locate and retrace the steps of the missing.
“Regardless of race, religion, political status, social class, every single solitary citizen,” said Maureen, “their life should count for something. There’s no way that you should be finding bodies. It’s almost like we’re disposable.”
To contact Kelly Egan, please call 613-726-5896 or email kegan@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/kellyegancolumn
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