“We went to a party, came home that night and the next morning she wanted to go back to Kamloops,” Lamberton said. “I couldn’t go because I had my baby with me. So, I asked her not to go but she decided to go anyways. She left around one. And right when she was walking out the door, I stopped her and gave her a knife.On May 2, 1981, Bjerky, who was just 10 days shy of her 17th birthday, left Lamberton’s home to visit her boyfriend in Kamloops.
“She was a wild one,” Lamberton said. “She was an artist. And she was so fun. Her and I are a lot alike because we both drew. We were both drawers. We both wrote poems. She just had a lot of life and she loved my little girl. And she worked hard. For a 16-year-old, she was a hard worker.” The family also held a memorial service for Bjerky in Yale at the Church of St. John the Divine, on May 12, 2011, 30 years after her disappearance.
Lamberton, who sat in the backseat with a knife open the whole trip, said something felt very off about Olson. She refused to eat or drink anything he offered. And she stopped Bjerky from consuming anything either. Lamberton said, out of desperation for answers, she wrote to Olson while he was in jail and received two letters from him. Irene, when she was alive, also told the Hope Standard in 2011 that she wrote to Olson trying to seek answers.
“When I read that I started bawling,” Lamberton said. “We could have been dead that day. And the thing that saved us, I refused to drink the beer and I refused to let Verna drink the beer.”
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