SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - The RCMP and a missing woman's family are asking the public for help after 21-year-old Angela Meyer disappeared from outside her home on Saturday.

The RCMP is asking the public for help in locating Angela Meyer, 21, who went missing from outside her home four days ago. - photo courtesy of the RCMP G Division

Ms. Meyer is described by RCMP as a 5-foot-11 Inuit female weighing between 220 and 240 pounds. She was last seen at approximately 1:20 p.m. outside her home on 54th Street, wearing a white Helly Hansen winter coat, black yoga pants, a black T-shirt, black socks, and grey winter boots.

She has short, dark brown hair and was not seen wearing a hat. She is further described as having light brown eyes and wears glasses.

Her mother, Kathy Meyer, is asking her to "just to please phone home or come home" if she is reading this article.

Angela Meyer was home in the care of her family on a weekend release from Stanton Territorial Hospital, where she had been receiving treatment for a mental illness. She had only enough medication with her for one night and the morning, and the family was about to go back to the hospital to ask for more medication so she could stay Saturday night as well. The last time she was seen was when she stepped outside to have a cigarette Saturday afternoon.

Kathy Meyer said her daughter becomes "incoherent" when off her medication and is often smiling.

"She does act incoherent, she does not make any sense at all. She'll just laugh," said Kathy Meyer.

The mother said she does not know if Angela would be able to comprehend her surroundings while not on her medication.

According to RCMP press releases, the police have made repeated attempts to contact her, but to no avail. A ground search began on Monday afternoon in the downtown area but yielded no results. It resumed on Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. with a focus on the McMahon Frame Lake Trail.

Trinity Helicopters were planning on flying Civil Air Search and Rescue members yesterday to conduct an aerial search in that same area, as well as the wooded area between Frame Lake and Old Airport Road, Tin Can Hill, and other residential wooded areas near her home.

The police are asking anyone with information on her possible whereabouts to contact them.

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