Grim details emerge after woman and daughter killed by suspected grizzly bear in Canada

CBS News · Ahmad Mukhtar · 2026-11-06 11:19 UTC

The delay in finding the remains of the two women was complicated by difficult terrain and the grizzly bear's behavior.

Selah Reed's family first knew something was wrong when the 20-year-old missed a routine Saturday night call with her sister.

When no one had heard from Reed or her mother, Jenny Balcarras, by the next morning, they asked the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to check on their home in Bella Coola on British Columbia's central coast. Balcarras' car was gone and the doors were locked. They found the car at a trailhead up the road, but Balcarras and Reed were nowhere to be found.

Family members across Canada and the U.S. started mobilizing. Jenny Balcarras' brother, Matt, headed north from Vancouver Island, and his brother left from Calgary. They met and drove through the night but got a call late Monday that their sister had been killed, likely by a grizzly.

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