Case No. DHF-051 | Subject: Azja Berens, 19, and her two-week-old baby, last seen leaving a residence in West St. Paul, Manitoba, on Tuesday 3 November 2026 | Date: Tuesday 3 November 2026 (last seen); Thursday 5 November 2026 (reported missing) | Location: West St. Paul, Manitoba, Canada | Status: MISSING
Posted: 6 November 2026
Status stamp: MISSING
Image note for readers: All images in this file are original illustrations created for Dark History Files. They are atmospheric artwork, not photographs and not real evidence. No image in this file depicts Azja Berens, her baby, any member of any family, any investigator, any official, or any real person, and no image depicts any act of violence, any death, or any search.
Caption: Case card for DHF-051 — Azja Berens case, West St. Paul, Manitoba. Status: MISSING.
THE FILE CARD
| Case File No. | DHF-051 |
| Subject | Azja Berens, 19, and her two-week-old baby, last seen leaving a residence in West St. Paul, Manitoba, Canada, on Tuesday 3 November 2026. They were reported missing on Thursday 5 November 2026. The RCMP believe they may be in Winnipeg, possibly with someone known to Azja. |
| Date | Tuesday 3 November 2026, about 9:00 a.m. (last seen); Thursday 5 November 2026 (reported missing to Selkirk RCMP) |
| Location | A residence in West St. Paul, Manitoba, Canada — a rural municipality north of Winnipeg. Believed possibly in Winnipeg, Manitoba. |
| Status | MISSING |
| Investigating authorities | Selkirk RCMP (Manitoba RCMP) |
| Person charged | None. No crime is alleged in connection with this disappearance in any source relied on here. No person is named as a suspect, and no charge has been filed. |
| One-line summary | Azja Berens, 19, was last seen leaving a residence in West St. Paul, Manitoba, with her two-week-old baby in a vehicle at about 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday 3 November 2026. Selkirk RCMP were told they were missing on Thursday 5 November 2026. Police believe Azja may be in Winnipeg, possibly with someone she knows, and are asking her to call 911 immediately so officers can confirm her newborn baby is safe. As of Friday 6 November 2026, no source relied on here reports that Azja or her baby has been found. |
Why this file is stamped MISSING: The stamp records only the position as it stands on 6 November 2026. Azja Berens and her two-week-old baby were last seen on Tuesday 3 November 2026, were reported missing on Thursday 5 November 2026, and the Manitoba RCMP's public appeal — still live when the sources relied on here were last checked — asks Azja to call 911 so officers can confirm her baby is safe. No source relied on here reports that either of them has been found, and no source relied on here reports any crime, charge, or finding about what happened to them. The stamp is not a verdict about where they are or why they left. If the RCMP confirm contact, a location, or any other development, this file will be updated, dated, and re-stamped if the facts require it — never quietly rewritten.
THE CASE
Tuesday morning
West St. Paul is a rural municipality just north of Winnipeg, in Manitoba, Canada — open prairie, scattered houses, and a short drive from the city. On Tuesday morning, 3 November 2026, a nineteen-year-old mother left a residence there with her baby. That is the last confirmed fact in this file about where either of them was. Everything after it is an appeal, a lead, or a question the police have not yet answered.
Azja Berens was nineteen years old. Her baby was two weeks old. The Manitoba RCMP's news release of Thursday 5 November 2026 says she was last seen leaving the residence with her baby in a vehicle at approximately 9 a.m. on Tuesday 3 November. It does not say which residence, and it does not describe the vehicle. There is no description of the vehicle in any source relied on here, and this file does not invent one. It does not say who was driving, or whether anyone else was in the vehicle. The release says only that she left with her baby in a vehicle, at about nine in the morning, on a Tuesday.
That is a thin record, and this file says so plainly. A missing-person file is often built from a thin record, and the honest thing is to show the reader exactly how thin it is, rather than filling it with guesses. What follows is everything the public record actually contains: one morning, one vehicle with no description, one appeal two days later, and a city named as a possibility.
Two days
The second date in this file matters as much as the first. Azja Berens and her baby were last seen on Tuesday 3 November. Selkirk RCMP were not told they were missing until Thursday 5 November. Two days passed between the last sighting and the report. The RCMP's release states both dates without explaining the gap, and no source relied on here explains it either. This file does not explain it. It records the gap because it is part of the public record, and because it shapes everything that came after: by the time the appeal went out, the trail was already two days old.
The release went out on Thursday 5 November. It was the first public record of the case in any source relied on here. There is no earlier appeal, no earlier statement, and no earlier report in the sources this file relies on. The case, as the public knows it, began on 5 November, with a disappearance that had already happened two days before.
That is also why this file is being written on 6 November, three days after Azja was last seen and one day after the appeal. The case is new, the record is short, and the police are still in the first stage of their work: asking the public for help, and asking Azja herself to make contact.
The appeal
The RCMP's appeal is direct, and it is worth quoting in full, because it is the whole of the official record so far. Corporal Mélanie Roussel of the Manitoba RCMP said: "We are asking Azja to immediately call 911 so that officers can ensure that her newborn baby is safe. We are also asking friends and loved ones of Azja to contact police if they know where she may be staying."
That is the appeal in its entirety, as the RCMP published it. It is addressed, first, to Azja herself: call 911. It is addressed, second, to her friends and loved ones: contact police if you know where she may be staying. And it is addressed, third, to the public: if a member of the public has seen Azja, they are asked to call 911. The reason the RCMP gives is also stated plainly in the release: they are concerned for the wellbeing of the baby and need to confirm her safety.
The release gives Azja's description in full. She is five feet six inches tall and weighs 150 pounds, with shoulder-length wavy black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black oversized hoodie, grey baggy sweatpants, and white and black running shoes. That description is reproduced here because it is the description the police want the public to use. It is the only description of Azja in any source relied on here, and it is the description that matters if someone sees her.
The release also says what the police believe, and it says it carefully. It is believed that Azja may be in Winnipeg and possibly with someone known to her. That is a belief, not a confirmed location, and this file records it as a belief. Winnipeg is the city just south of West St. Paul, and it is where the RCMP believe Azja may have gone. No source relied on here says why they believe that, and no source relied on here says who the person she may be with is. The file does not guess at either answer.
What the release does not say is just as important. It does not say that any crime has taken place. It does not name any suspect. It does not say that Azja is in danger from another person, and it does not say that she left against her will. It does not say anything about why she left, or where she was going, or what she intended. The police have said they are concerned for the baby's wellbeing and need to confirm the baby is safe. That concern is the reason for the appeal, and it is the only reason the RCMP have given. This file does not add another one.
The public response
The appeal travelled fast. Within a day of the RCMP's release, the story was being shared across Manitoba and beyond it: the RCMP's own post on its Manitoba page drew more than a thousand reactions and more than two hundred comments in its first day, and the Selkirk RCMP's post drew hundreds more. Missing People Canada published a flyer with the same facts. Community pages and local accounts shared the appeal, and people in Winnipeg began reporting possible sightings in the replies — a woman matching the description, walking with a baby, in the downtown area, on Tuesday afternoon.
None of those sightings has been confirmed by police in any source relied on here, and this file does not treat any of them as a sighting. A comment saying "I think I saw her" is not a police finding. It is a member of the public trying to help, and it may turn out to be right, or wrong, or about someone else entirely. The police have not confirmed any of it, and until they do, this file records the sightings only as what they are: unconfirmed reports in the replies to a public appeal.
The same caution applies to another claim that spread quickly in those replies. Several commenters said that Azja had herself commented online that she was safe and in contact with the RCMP. That claim has not been confirmed by any official source relied on here. The RCMP's own account replied to a commenter identifying as Azja and asked for confirmation of her safety — it did not confirm that contact had been made. And the RCMP's news release, which was still live and unchanged when this file's sources were last checked on 6 November 2026, still asks Azja to call 911 immediately. If contact had been confirmed, the appeal would not still be asking for it. This file therefore treats the claim as unconfirmed, and it does not repeat it as fact. If the RCMP confirm contact, this file will be updated the same day.
People in the replies also asked a question the police have not answered in any source relied on here: why no Amber Alert was issued. This file does not answer that question, because no official source relied on here answers it, and the file does not speculate about police decisions. The RCMP's public ask is to call 911, and that is the ask this file carries.
There was also speculation in the replies about why Azja left, including claims about child-welfare authorities. No official source relied on here makes any such claim, and no official source relied on here gives any reason for her leaving. This file does not repeat that speculation, and it does not describe it in detail. A missing nineteen-year-old mother and her two-week-old baby are the subject of this file. The reasons strangers online invent for her leaving are not.
What this file does not do
This file does not say where Azja Berens and her baby are, because no source relied on here knows. It does not say why she left the residence in West St. Paul on Tuesday morning, because no source relied on here says why. It does not say whether she is with someone she knows, beyond reporting that the RCMP believe she may be. It does not say whether she is safe, because the RCMP have said they need to confirm her baby's safety and have not yet been able to. And it does not say what will happen next, because that depends on a phone call the RCMP are still waiting for.
It does not name the baby. No source relied on here gives the baby a name, and this file will not invent one or borrow one from a social-media post. The baby is described in this file exactly as the RCMP describe her: Azja's two-week-old baby, her newborn baby. Nothing more is known about the baby in the public record, and nothing more is said here.
It does not use any photograph of Azja or her baby. The RCMP released photographs with their appeal, and those photographs were shared widely. Dark History Files does not reproduce them. Its rule for living-person and child-involved files is illustration only, and this file follows it: the images here are atmospheric illustrations of the place, not pictures of the people. The photographs belong to the police appeal, where they can help someone recognise Azja. They do not belong in a case file that will sit on the internet long after this appeal is over.
It does not call anyone a suspect, because there is no suspect in any source relied on here. It does not allege any crime, because no crime is alleged in any source relied on here. A young mother leaving a house with her baby is not, on its own, a crime, and this file does not treat it as one. If the police allege otherwise, this file will be updated with the charge and the source, and the stamp will change to match.
And it does not fill the two-day gap between Tuesday morning and Thursday's report with a story. Two days passed before the RCMP were told. That is a fact. Why those two days passed is not in the public record, and this file leaves it there, in the open, where the reader can see that it is unknown.
That is why this file is stamped MISSING and not anything stronger. The stamp is not a finding about what happened to Azja Berens or her baby. It is a record of the position on 6 November 2026: a nineteen-year-old mother and her two-week-old baby were last seen on Tuesday 3 November, were reported missing on Thursday 5 November, are believed to possibly be in Winnipeg, and have not been found. The RCMP are asking Azja to call 911 so they can confirm her baby is safe. Until she does, or until someone who knows where she is calls the police, that is where the file stands — open, dated, and waiting for a phone call.
TIMELINE
- Tuesday 3 November 2026, about 9:00 a.m. — Azja Berens, 19, is last seen leaving a residence in West St. Paul, Manitoba, with her two-week-old baby in a vehicle, according to the Manitoba RCMP's news release of 5 November 2026. No description of the vehicle is available in any source relied on here.
- Thursday 5 November 2026 — Selkirk RCMP are notified that Azja Berens and her two-week-old baby are missing from a residence in West St. Paul. The Manitoba RCMP publish a news release the same day: Azja may be in Winnipeg and possibly with someone known to her; the RCMP are concerned for the wellbeing of the baby and need to confirm her safety; Azja is asked to call 911 immediately, and anyone who has seen her is asked to call 911. CBC Manitoba reports the appeal the same day.
- Thursday 5 November 2026, evening (UTC) — The appeal is shared widely online. The RCMP's Manitoba page post draws more than a thousand reactions and more than two hundred comments in its first day; the Selkirk RCMP post draws hundreds of reactions; Missing People Canada publishes a flyer with the same facts. Members of the public report possible sightings in the replies; none is confirmed by police in any source relied on here.
- Friday 6 November 2026 — This file is published on this date. As of the sources relied on here, checked on 6 November 2026, the RCMP's news release is still live and unchanged, still asking Azja to call 911, and no official source reports that Azja or her baby has been found or that contact with police has been confirmed.
EVIDENCE & LEADS
- The last sighting (Tuesday 3 November 2026, about 9:00 a.m.): Azja Berens, 19, was last seen leaving a residence in West St. Paul with her two-week-old baby in a vehicle, according to the Manitoba RCMP's news release of 5 November 2026, as reported by CBC Manitoba. The release does not say which residence, and no description of the vehicle is available in any source relied on here.
- The report (Thursday 5 November 2026): Selkirk RCMP were notified on 5 November 2026 that Azja Berens and her two-week-old baby were missing from a residence in West St. Paul, according to the Manitoba RCMP. Two days passed between the last sighting and the report; no source relied on here explains the gap.
- The Winnipeg lead: It is believed that Azja may be in Winnipeg and possibly with someone known to her, according to the Manitoba RCMP. West St. Paul is a rural municipality north of Winnipeg, according to CBC Manitoba. No source relied on here says why police believe she may be in Winnipeg, or who the person she may be with is.
- Azja's description: Five feet six inches tall, 150 pounds, with shoulder-length wavy black hair and brown eyes, according to the Manitoba RCMP. Last seen wearing a black oversized hoodie, grey baggy sweatpants, and white and black running shoes.
- The RCMP's ask: "We are asking Azja to immediately call 911 so that officers can ensure that her newborn baby is safe. We are also asking friends and loved ones of Azja to contact police if they know where she may be staying," said Corporal Mélanie Roussel of the Manitoba RCMP, in the news release of 5 November 2026. If a member of the public has seen Azja, they are asked to call 911.
- The reason for the appeal: The RCMP are concerned for the wellbeing of the baby and need to confirm her safety, according to the Manitoba RCMP's news release.
- The public response: The appeal was shared widely within a day. The RCMP's Manitoba page post drew more than a thousand reactions and more than two hundred comments in its first day, and the Selkirk RCMP post drew hundreds of reactions, according to the posts themselves as read on 6 November 2026. Missing People Canada published a flyer carrying the same facts and the RCMP's 911 ask. Members of the public reported possible sightings in the replies to the RCMP posts; none has been confirmed by police in any source relied on here, and this file does not treat any of them as a confirmed sighting.
- The unconfirmed contact claim: Several commenters on the RCMP's posts said Azja had commented online that she was safe and in contact with the RCMP. That claim has not been confirmed by any official source relied on here. The RCMP's own account replied to a commenter identifying as Azja and asked for confirmation of her safety; it did not confirm contact. The RCMP's news release, still live when the sources relied on here were last checked on 6 November 2026, still asks Azja to call 911 immediately. This file treats the claim as unconfirmed.
- What is NOT evidence in this file: any reason Azja left the residence (none given in any source relied on here); any confirmed location for Azja or her baby (Winnipeg is a belief, not a confirmed location); any confirmed sighting (public reports in comment replies are unconfirmed); any confirmation that Azja has contacted police (claimed in comments, not confirmed by any official source); any crime, suspect, or charge (none alleged in any source relied on here); any description of the vehicle (none available); the baby's name (not given in any source relied on here); any account of what happened after 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday 3 November 2026.
Caption: Illustration of a quiet prairie-town street at dawn — atmospheric artwork, not a photograph of West St. Paul and not evidence.
STILL UNKNOWN
- Where are Azja Berens and her baby? Last seen leaving a residence in West St. Paul on Tuesday 3 November 2026 at about 9:00 a.m. The RCMP believe they may be in Winnipeg, possibly with someone known to Azja. No confirmed location has been reported in any source relied on here.
- Why did Azja leave? No reason has been given in any source relied on here. This file does not speculate.
- What happened after 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday 3 November? Nothing after the last sighting has been established in any source relied on here, beyond the report to police on Thursday 5 November.
- Why were two days between the last sighting and the report? Selkirk RCMP were notified on Thursday 5 November about a disappearance from Tuesday 3 November. No source relied on here explains the gap.
- Has Azja contacted the police? Claims in social-media comments say she has. No official source relied on here confirms it, and the RCMP's news release still asks her to call 911. This file will be updated if the RCMP confirm contact.
- Have any of the reported sightings been confirmed? Members of the public reported possible sightings in the replies to the RCMP's posts. None has been confirmed by police in any source relied on here.
- Is the baby safe? The RCMP say they are concerned for the wellbeing of the baby and need to confirm her safety. That confirmation has not been reported in any source relied on here. This file does not speculate about the baby's condition.
- Why was no Amber Alert issued? People in the replies to the RCMP's posts asked this. No official source relied on here answers the question, and this file does not speculate about police decisions.
What would change this file: if Azja Berens contacts police, or if the RCMP confirm that she and her baby have been located; if a confirmed location or a confirmed sighting is reported by the RCMP; if the RCMP issue any further statement about the case; or if any charge or allegation is made, this file will be updated with the date, the source, and the new stamp if the facts require it — never quietly rewritten. Until then, the stamp stays MISSING.
If you have information: If you have seen Azja Berens or her baby, or if you know where they may be staying, call 911 immediately, as the Manitoba RCMP asks. Do not send money to anyone claiming to hold them, or to anyone asking for payment for information about them. If someone contacts you claiming to be Azja, or claiming to know where she is, pass the details to police rather than acting on them yourself.
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SOURCES
- Manitoba RCMP, 5 November 2026 — "Selkirk RCMP searching for missing mother and her two-week-old baby" (news release, https://rcmp.ca/en/manitoba/news/2026/11/4358569): Selkirk RCMP notified 5 November 2026 of a missing 19-year-old female and her two-week-old baby from a residence in West St. Paul; Azja Berens, 19, last seen leaving the residence with her baby in a vehicle on 3 November 2026 at approximately 9 a.m.; believed Azja may be in Winnipeg and possibly with someone known to her; no description of the vehicle available; RCMP concerned for the wellbeing of the baby and need to confirm her safety; description 5'6", 150 lbs, shoulder-length wavy black hair, brown eyes, last seen wearing a black oversized hoodie, grey baggy sweatpants with white and black running shoes; Corporal Mélanie Roussel quoted asking Azja to call 911 immediately and asking friends and loved ones to contact police; public asked to call 911 if they have seen Azja. Read in full on 6 November 2026 (page crawled 11:04 UTC; release still live and unchanged).
- CBC Manitoba, 5 November 2026 — "Missing mother and newborn baby might be in Winnipeg, Manitoba RCMP say" (published 2026-11-05T22:36:12Z): Azja Berens, 19, last seen leaving a home in West St. Paul in a vehicle with her two-week-old baby around 9 a.m. Tuesday; Selkirk RCMP told about the missing pair on Thursday; police said Berens might have gone to Winnipeg and could be with someone she knows; West St. Paul is a rural municipality north of Winnipeg; description 5'6", 150 lbs, shoulder-length wavy black hair, brown eyes, black hooded sweatshirt, grey sweatpants, white and black running shoes; no vehicle description available; police worried about the baby's wellbeing and need to confirm she is safe; Azja asked to call 911 immediately; anyone who knows where they might be asked to call 911. Read in full on 6 November 2026 (via the EuropeSays mirror carrying the full CBC article text).
- Missing People Canada, 5 November 2026 — "Missing Woman & Baby in West St. Paul, Manitoba — Azja Berens, 19 — Last Seen November 3, 2026" (https://missingpeople.ca/missing-woman-baby-in-west-st-paul-manitoba-azja-berens-19-last-seen-november-3-2026/): same facts as the RCMP release; Corporal Mélanie Roussel quoted; source link to the RCMP release. Read via search summary; no fact in this file rests on this page alone.
- RCMP Manitoba and Selkirk & Area RCMP public posts, 5–6 November 2026 (Facebook): the appeal's public reach and the comment threads — more than a thousand reactions and more than two hundred comments on the Manitoba RCMP post in its first day, hundreds of reactions on the Selkirk RCMP post; unconfirmed sighting reports and the unconfirmed claim that Azja had contacted police, with the RCMP account replying to ask for confirmation. Read via social search on 6 November 2026; no fact about the case itself rests on a comment, and every comment-sourced point in this file is labelled unconfirmed.
- No competitor article text or image is reproduced in this file. Facts are stated in Dark History Files' own words, with official material attributed to its source. No source beyond those listed above was relied on for facts in the draft. No search-volume numbers are stated, because no tool returned any.
Caption: Illustration of flat prairie land outside Winnipeg at dusk — atmospheric artwork, not a photograph of Winnipeg and not evidence.
Reader question: A nineteen-year-old mother and her two-week-old baby have been missing for three days, and the police's only ask is a phone call. What is the most useful thing a stranger can do when a missing-person appeal like this one appears in their feed — and what should they stop doing?
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