Dawn Eva Carisse
Case reference: 2009004999
Missing since: August 9, 2001
Missing from: North Bay, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth: February 18, 1958
Age at Disappearance: 43 years
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Indigenous
Eye Color: Green
Hair: Brown, short, curly brown hair, parted in the center with short bangs
Height: 5ft 6in
Weight: 115 lbs
Physical Build: Slender / Thin
Notable: Dawn has a faint scar on her left cheek. She also has two moles on her abdomen.
Dawn was last seen wearing: A short-sleeved long pink dress with a faint white flower pattern, a buttoned front, and a draw string that crisscrossed the back. She was also wearing brownish-red closed-toed sandals
Details About Dawn’s Case: At that time of her disappearance, Dawn was a patient of the North Bay Psychiatric Hospital who had been admitted approximately 18 years prior.
Dawn was living with short-term memory loss and was often easily disoriented. Two years prior to her 2001 disappearance, she left the hospital grounds in an attempt to see her children, who were living in the Kirkland Lake area at the time. She was later found hitchhiking along Highway 11 in the opposite direction of Kirkland Lake. Since 1997, Dawn had left the Ward nine times, only to be later found by hospital staff walking on the hospital grounds or on Highway 11.
At approximately 5:00pm on Thursday August 9, 2001, at the time when patients of her ward regularly met in a common room for dinner, hospital staff noticed that Dawn was not there, or on the ward. They immediately began a search for her on the hospital grounds and along Highway 11. This met with negative results. The following morning, hospital staff contacted the North Bay Police Service to report that she was missing.
Police conducted a thorough investigation, which included interviews with hospital staff, relatives and friends, and the dissemination of alerts to police partners and the public via the media. Following the media coverage, police received two reports from members of the public of possible sightings of Dawn. Unfortunately, all attempts to locate her were unsuccessful.
Dawn was known to have a pleasant personality. Based on her past behavior of previous attempts to leave the hospital, it is possible that she was planning to go see her children. Her children were still living in the Kirkland Lake area at the time. However, she may have been travelling towards Sudbury. The guardians of her children had expressed to her that they were planning to move to Sudbury with the children within a year or two.
If you have information on Dawn’s case, please contact any of the following:
North Bay Police Service: 1-705-497-5555
Reference Case#: 355080-0
Crime Stoppers: 1-800-222-TIPS(8477)
Online at: https://www.canadiancrimestoppers.org/submit-a-tip/submit-a-tip
Crime Stoppers provides anonymous tipping
Send email to the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains at: canadasmissing-disparuscanada@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Sources:
Canada’s Missing
Doe Network
International Missing Persons Wiki
Someone Saw Something 