Robin Kenneth Windross
Missing since: November 15, 1977
Missing from: Orillia, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth: December 6, 1955
Age at Disappearance: 21 years
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Eye Color: Brown
Hair: Brown, short
Height: 183cm / 6ft 0in
Weight: 64 kgs / 141 lbs
Physical Build: Slender/Thin
Complexion: Light/Fair
Notable: Robin has poor teeth. Robin’s mother provided a swab for DNA comparison.
Medical: Robin is developmentally disabled. He has an intellectual age of about 6 years old, speaks with a strong speech impediment and is difficult to understand when he speaks.
Robin was last seen wearing: A blue shirt, blue jeans, denim / blue jean jacket & rubber boots.
Details About Robin’s Case: Robin began living at the Huronia Regional Center (HRC) when he was five years old. He was placed at HRC at age five on the recommendation of specialists at Toronto’s Hospital For Sick Children. According to Robin’s mother, Betty Bellchambers, Robin never wanted to return to the HRC whenever he came home to visit family because he claimed the staff was abusive towards him.
When Robin first disappeared, he was originally believed to have gone to the Orillia Terriers-Cambridge Hornets hockey game that night, but staff couldn’t get in contact with the arena to confirm this and it was confirmed that he hadn’t gotten on the bus taking HRC residents to the game and back.
Robin may have left the HRC because he was being transferred into a unit with adults and he’d always been housed with children. Because Robin has the intellectual capacity or a 6 year old, it is a possibility.
From the time that Robin disappeared there are many accounts of physical, emotional and sexual abuse at the HRC. There was a class action law suit brought against the HRC. The settlement amount was $35 million to be paid by the Ontario Government. There were non-monetary benefits as well such as restoration of the cemetery fence, an apology from the government, historic plaques and signage and most importantly for HRC an agreement that up to $5 million would be spent on projects benefitting survivors if all the funds available were not disbursed.
To date, Robin has not been located.
If you have information on Robin’s case, please contact any of the following:
Orillia OPP OPP ONCMPUR
Telephone: 1-877-934-6363 or 1-705-330-4144
Email: opp.isb.resolve@opp.ca
Reference Case#: RM06041259
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
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