UNIDENTIFIED: Vancouver Jane Doe (2000)
On August 10, 2000, a woman who looked to be in her late thirties walked onto the Arthur Laing Bridge in Vancouver, BC. It was a warm, sunny day; she wore a heavy tweed green and black overcoat. She climbed over the guard rail and fell onto Southwest Marine Drive.
MISSING: Stacy “Luke” DILENARDI (2005) - Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Stacy Lucien “Luke” DiLenardi had lived in Sudbury his entire life. Three months after starting a new job in Sault Ste. Marie, Stacy went to buy cigarettes during lunch. He never returned.
MISSING: Corey Shane Braun (2004) - Peace River, AB
In 2004, Corey Shane Braun was 24 years old. He lived and worked in Fort St. John, B.C., as an oil field operator for Penn West. In November, nearly four hours away from home, he disappeared after attending the company’s Christmas party.
UNSOLVED: The Murder of Melissa Ivy Chaboyer - 2005 - Thompson, MB
It was a Friday night on November 25, 2005. Melissa had just finished visiting her mother when she started the graveyard shift in the most violent city in Canada.
UNIDENTIFIED: Hamilton John Doe - Found 04/09/07 - Hamilton, ON
On the evening of Saturday, April 7, 2007, a 32-year-old figure skating coach looked outside of her home in Mount Hope, in Hamilton, Ontario, and noticed an odd object “sitting perfectly” at the end of her driveway.
UNSOLVED: Lucas Shortreed - 10/10/08 - Alma, ON (SOLVED 2022)
Lucas Shortreed never saw it coming. The car that struck the 18-year-old from behind on a dark country road - as he walked home to Fergus, from a party in Alma - left his lifeless body on the gravel, surrounded by shards of glass and vehicle debris.
UNIDENTIFIED: Bowmanville Clarington Jane Doe - 2006 - Bowmanville, ON
On October 26, 2006, a man harvesting dogwood plants in a marsh in Bowmanville, ON, discovered the skeletal remains of a woman with no hair and no clothes. The boggy field was the closest stop off the eastbound exit of Hwy. 401.
Runaway Youth: The Unusual Disappearance of Justin Pollari
The year Justin Pollari disappeared, there were 66,994 reports of missing children in Canada; 53,434 of those were classified as runaways.
UNIDENTIFIED: Kenora “Millie” Jane Doe (2009) - Kenora, ON
On June 17, 2009, a hiker walking near the Trans-Canada Highway discovered the body of a woman in a small blue one-person tent, in a wooded area along the Winnipeg River, in Kenora, Ontario.
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On Saturday, August 28, 1999, 19-year-old Jason MacCullough was shot in the back of the head while walking home in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. His murder is considered to be a completely random act of violence.
Marshal Iwaasa was 26 years old when he was last seen on November 17, 2019. A week later, his burned out truck was found in the backcountry of Pemberton, BC. I spoke with Marshal’s sister, Paige Fogen, to learn more about Marshal and his family’s search for answers.
On October 17, 1982, Clayton played a few hands of poker with friends after finishing his shift at Abbotsford Taxi Ltd. When it ended, he left to drive home. Hours later, someone saw a passenger in his vehicle.
Like so many other young women in the Calgary area, Jennifer Janz never had the chance to come home. Her murder was only the start.
The offer was too good to be true.
On Tuesday, August 1, 1989, Ronnie Jack left the First Litre Pub in Prince George, British Columbia, feeling hopeful. Someone at the bar that night had offered to help.
The disappearance of the Jack family is the first and only of its kind in Canadian history.
It was a Friday night on November 25, 2005. Melissa had just finished visiting her mother when she started the graveyard shift in the most violent city in Canada.
4,024 km. If you believe the story, that’s how far 19-year-old Mary Frances Gregory was from her home in Parry Sound, Ontario, when she disappeared.
Yves Jodouin was the third of four children. At 16 years old, he was a budding artist and comic book collector, described by those who knew him as polite and well-liked. At only 4’9”, his already small stature was compounded by his struggles with Anorexia Nervosa.
Early in the morning on March 4, 1993, a man delivering newspapers called 911 to report an apartment fire in the 8700 block of Granville Street in Vancouver, BC. When firefighters arrived, they discovered 28-year-old Jillian Fuller’s body inside her burned-out apartment.
On October 26, 2006, a man harvesting dogwood plants in a marsh in Bowmanville, ON, discovered the skeletal remains of a woman with no hair and no clothes. The boggy field was the closest stop off the eastbound exit of Hwy. 401.
In May of 1982, Terry Zubko was admitted as a patient at the North Bay Psychiatric Hospital on Highway 11 North. He disappeared 46 days later.
On June 17, 2009, a hiker walking near the Trans-Canada Highway discovered the body of a woman in a small blue one-person tent, in a wooded area along the Winnipeg River, in Kenora, Ontario.
Leah Sousa was barely 13 years old when she fell asleep on the couch at her family’s home in Cumberland Beach, Ontario. It was Labour Day weekend in 1990. Sometime after midnight, someone broke in while her family slept.
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Alberta - Case Summaries
Karl Heinz Behr was last seen on December 25, 1981, in Edmonton, Alberta, when he left a family function to go home.
In November 1971, 23-year-old, three-months-pregnant Eileen “Gail” McCarthy was last seen boarding a bus a block away from her home.
William Bereziuk left home in Edmonton to spend the winter in the Birch Mountain area of Alberta, then return to Edmonton in August of 1975.
Julie Ann Derouin was 23 years old and 7 months pregnant when she was last seen in Lethbridge, Alberta in January of 1980.
Jeffrey Dekleyn was last seen on surveillance footage withdrawing money from an ATM machine in Hamilton, Ontario.
In August 1996, 34-year-old Bruce Berthelot left his family residence in Leamington, Ontario. He may have travelled to Manitoba or western Canada.
Tim Marcel Villemaire - also known as Timmy - has been missing since 2001 from Cambridge, Ontario. He may have been showing signs of schizophrenia at the time of his disappearance.
Mabel Crumback was 19 years old when she vanished from her home in Toronto, Ontario, on May 28, 1950. Her disappearance remains unsolved.
Francis Harris disappeared Friday, April 21, 1972. Foul play is suspected in her disappearance.
Mary Lejeune was last seen in Montréal, Québec in February of 1991. She was 28 years old at the time of her disappearance.
Singh Sukmwinder Lebhana was 14 years old when he took all his belongings and left Montréal in 2004.
Danielle Boisvert was 18 years old when she disappeared on November 6, 1979 in Montréal, Québec.
Jean-Guy Champagne, 25, and Jean Gravel, 24, left work in the early hours of July 7, 1974. They were never seen again.
On November 1, 1985, Isabelle Bourgeot disappeared from Limoilou, Québec. She may be suffering from amnesia due to a car accident.
Tersilla Bonthaux was 79 years old when she disappeared while walking home near Duck Lake, Saskatchewan.
Wilson Grant Nokohoot was last seen in the 1800 block of Smith Street in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Emily Osmond lived a reclusive lifestyle in Kawacatoose First Nation, Saskatchewan. She was 78 years old when she disappeared in September of 2007.
Anker Ljunggren was last seen by his wife in October of 1935, in Craik or Craig Saskatchewan. He was 29 years old.
Michael David Hart left his home in Langton, Ontario, to look for work out west. After May 24, 1996, he had no further contact with his parents and he has not been seen since.
Mark Kostewitz was 23 years old when he left his home in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for a trip to Europe. He was never seen again.
Johnson Beardy was 27 years old when he disappeared in the early morning hours of March 8, 1985 in Thompson, MB.
Sylvia Klayh was 14 years old when she vanished from her family’s cabin in Brereton Lake, Manitoba on August 13, 1967. Foul play is suspected in her disappearance.
Emily Ballantyne, from Northlands First Nation, disappeared in April 1991. She was 24 years old.
In late spring of 1980, Slave Lake was burning.
In one day, the wildfires just outside the small town in Alberta would take the life of a water bomber pilot, the efforts of over 125 RCMP officers, and destroy the innocence of a boy, his family and an entire community.