RCMP ask public for video footage to help find missing B.C. rancher

Mounties investigating the disappearanceof B.C.rancher Ben Tyner,32, are now asking the public for video footage.

Anyone who drove through Merritt or the Nicola Valley between Jan. 25 and Jan. 27 isbeing asked by MerrittRCMPto supply footage fromdashboard-mounted cameras or other recording devices to the police as they search for clues.

Tyner was reported missingon Jan.28, when his riderless horse was discovered on a logging road off Highway 97 near Winnie Flats. The horse was geared and saddled.

Following his reported disappearance,policeand a dozen search teams combed thesnowy backcountryabout 80 kilometres south of Kamloops for a week.

Tyner, originally from Wyoming, works at a cattle ranchnearNicola, B.C.,and was last seen there on Jan. 26.

After his disappearance, Tyner's parents and brothertravelled from the U.S.to help in the two-week-long search effort. Tyner's mother, Jennifer Tyner, described her son as the kind of guy "who would help anyone for whatever they needed."

When the search was called off, she told reportersthe prospect of never seeing his smile, hearing his infectious laugh,having him wrap his arms around heror seeing him realize hs dreams was "unthinkable."

The RCMP'sMajor Crime Unit has since joined the investigation, but police saythere's no evidence to suggest foul play.