Calgary- She disappeared nearly one year ago after apparently getting involved in prostitution in the ‘City of Sin,’ but Jessie Foster’s relatives haven’t given up hope — and Global National was there as the Calgary family too their search from the bright lights of the Las Vegas strip to the dark alleys frequented by the city’s sex-trade workers.

Foster, 21, last contacted her family March 28, 2006. Her bank accounts and credit card have shown no activity since then. Her several-times-a-week calls to family members have ceased altogether.

“She’s a good kid,” said Foster’s mother, Glendene Grant. “We’re talking about a girl who got As on her report card. She never smoked cigarettes. She never did drugs.”

Over one year ago, Foster arrived in Las Vegas on her way home from a trip to Florida with a friend.

“She called me from Las Vegas and said, ‘Mom, I like it here, I’m going to stay,” Grant said.

Foster apparently met and befriended a man named Peter Todd, who told her he raced cars and came from a wealthy family.

“To her, he was like Prince Charming,” Grant said. Before long, Foster had moved into Todd’s expensive condo.

But a private detective hired by Foster’s dad, Dwight Foster, uncovered some disturbing information.

Foster, who had graduated from high school and went on to work as a waitress at Boston Pizza in Calgary and Kamloops, was convicted in Las Vegas of soliciting for prostitution in June 2005. In September 2005, she was charged with four more counts of that offence, investigator Mike Kirkman said.

And it turns out Todd was married to a convicted prostitute, and he had been found guilty of spousal abuse.

When confronted with this information, Todd told Foster’s mother that he came home April 3, 2006 to find Jessie had taken all her belongings and moved out.

Las Vegas police brought Todd, 39, in for questioning.

“We’re interested in him enough that we brought him in a second time,” said the department’s public information officer Tim Bedwell.

It appears Todd has a considerable amount of money but no legitimate source of income, Bedwell noted.

But police have no evidence of a crime in relation to Foster’s disappearance, and Todd’s conviction for spousal assault isn’t enough for a warrant to search his home, Bedwell said.

Todd is the only person police know of in the Las Vegas area to question in connection with Foster’s disappearance, Bedwell said.

However, Todd maintains he has no involvement with the prostitution business and that he never physically abused Foster.

“I don’t give a s–t what the hell they say about me,” Todd told CanWest reporters. “When I met Jessica Foster, she was a hooker.”

He said Foster stayed with him on and off and he thinks she’s now working as a decoy for the police, or has gone underground to avoid being deported for prostitution offences.

Recently, Foster’s parents went to Las Vegas to continue the search for their daughter, handing out posters with Jessie’s picture — and to urge local police to continue looking for her.

“She’s become a non-person to the local authorities,” said David Foster. “Without constant pressure, they’re going to keep ignoring us.”

With each hour that passes, hope fades a little more for Foster’s family. But her mother leaves a voicemail message for her daughter every day.

“Jessie, we’re looking for you, baby,” her mother says. “Don’t worry, we’re going to find