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In an attempt to generate leads in the 2016 disappearance of a Bemidji teen, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children partnered with gas station video company GSTV for a new campaign. 

Beginning in March, Jeremy Jourdain’s poster will be displayed on more than 1,900 gas station TVs throughout the Midwest. He would have celebrated his birthday this month.  

“Feb. 2 should have been a joyful milestone for Jeremy: his 26th birthday,” the center said in a release. “Instead, it was another painful reminder for his mother, Theresa Jourdain, who has spent nearly a decade searching for her son.”

Jourdain was last seen at a family member’s Bemidji home on Halloween the year he went missing. He was 17 at the time. 

“We will never give up Jeremy,” said his mother, Theresa Jourdain, in the release. “We think of you every day and we love and miss you very much.”

Since July, Jourdain has been one of eight people featured on billboards across Minnesota by the state’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Office. 

The office is the first of its kind in the nation. In a statement it said their goal is “to provide support and resources to Indigenous families and communities impacted by violence.” 

“Our office stresses the need to build strong collaborations between community and organizations like NCMEC and law enforcement partners to support impacted families. We are so much stronger together and our families and relatives deserve a strong show of support,” MMIR interim director Ana Negrete said. “We hope this latest push reminds the community to stay vigilant, to come forward with information and if nothing else to speak Jeremy’s name and keep looking.”  

The case is still being actively investigated. Anyone with information about Jourdain’s disappearance is urged to contact the Bemidji Police Department at 218-333-9111or the NCMEC’s 24-hour call center at 1-800-843-5678.

“We believe that answers are possible,” the NCMEC said. “It only takes one person to speak up.”

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Jeremy Jourdain was last seen at a family member’s Bemidji home on Halloween in 2016. He was 17 at the time. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children partnered with gas station video company GSTV for a new campaign. 

Gas station TVs throughout the Midwest will show missing Bemidji teen’s poster in attempt to generate leads

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