Over the last two weeks at Someone Saw Something, we have shared the stories of 19 people whose cases deserve to be remembered. Some have been missing for more than half a century, while others disappeared only recently. We have also revisited several unsolved murders where families are still waiting for someone to finally come forward with the information that could bring answers.
We began with the disappearance of Chenel Dubé, who has not been heard from since August 10, 1970, and the heartbreaking story of Beric Bradley Bason, whose disappearance came shortly after his family suffered the devastating loss of his older brother in Afghanistan.
We then remembered Crystal Dawn Castle, whose 2021 murder in Saskatchewan remains unsolved, and Ronald Crawford, who was killed in Hamilton in 2002 after finding himself caught in a violent situation while simply visiting a friend at a restaurant.
Hamilton was also the focus of two other stories. Shariek Douse was shot and killed in the city’s North End in 2015, while Rhonda Homsombath was an innocent bystander killed in gunfire in 2020. We also revisited the murder of Marley Rowe, whose family has said they believe he was not the intended target when he was shot and killed on New Year’s Day 2014.
We returned to Halifax for the disappearance of Kimberly McAndrew, who vanished in 1989, and the unsolved murder of Tanya Jean Brooks, a Mi’kmaq mother of five who was killed in 2009. Another Indigenous woman remembered during these two weeks was Judy Ann Quill, whose 2009 murder in Pikangikum First Nation remains unsolved.
We also shared the disappearance of Sylvia Klayh, who vanished in 1967, and travelled back even further for the story of 19-year-old Eileen Faye Williams. Eileen disappeared from Prince Edward Island in 1962 after returning home from Hamilton for the summer, and her disappearance remains one of PEI’s oldest cold cases.
The more recent cases included André Blackburn, who disappeared from Jonquière, Quebec, in 2018, and Kari Campbell, whose final known journey was a taxi ride from Fredericton to the Durham Bridge area in August 2021.
We also took a closer look at the disappearance of Viola Isabella Panacheese, who vanished from Sioux Lookout in 1991. Her case is particularly troubling because of questions surrounding the original investigation, including the revelation that her police file was at one point lost.
Another disappearance involving water was that of Marilyn Zaitzeff. Marilyn left her cottage on Lambert Island in Lake Superior aboard a personal watercraft in October 2000. The watercraft was found overturned the following day, but Marilyn herself was never located.
Two more recent disappearances brought us to British Columbia and Ontario. Alyssa Olsson disappeared from Nanaimo in June 2025, with investigators reporting no subsequent banking activity, while Shanda Playford disappeared from Greater Sudbury in February 2025. Shanda’s investigation has involved more than 100 police interviews as her family continues pushing for answers.
Then there was the troubling case of Gary Brandon Reno. Gary disappeared while living and working around Pink Mountain, British Columbia, in October 2024. His black Mitsubishi Outlander was later reportedly discovered burned, his belongings were recovered from the Buffalo Inn, and police returned to the area with ATVs and a police dog in January 2025. Gary remains missing.
We also shared the disappearance of Patrick Garrett Chum, who was last seen in Cochrane, Ontario, in October 2024. Patrick has connections to Cochrane, North Bay and Moose Factory, but very little information about his final known movements has ever been released publicly. Nearly two years later, he remains missing.
Finally, we travelled outside Canada for International Sunday Cases with the disappearance of six-year-old Mary Boyle in County Donegal, Ireland. Mary vanished in March 1977 while making what should have been a very short walk back to her grandparents’ home. Despite searches, reviews, an arrest that did not result in charges and decades of controversy surrounding the investigation, Mary has never been found.
And the final case for this week was for Fifteen-year-old Emanuela Orlandi vanished after attending a music lesson in Rome, Italy on June 22, 1983. Her disappearance sparked decades of mysterious phone calls and theories involving organized crime, international terrorism and the Vatican. More than 40 years later, investigations continue, but Emanuela has never been found.
Nineteen stories in fourteen days. Some involve a few mysterious minutes; others contain years of unanswered questions. Some have extensive investigative histories, while others have received so little public attention that even the most basic details about what happened remain unknown.
But every one of them represents a real person and a family that deserves answers.
If you missed a story over the last two weeks, take a few minutes to look back through the posts. Read a name you don’t recognize. Share a photograph you haven’t seen before. Sometimes a case doesn’t need thousands of people to know the answer.
It just needs the right person to see it.
Because Someone Saw Something.
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