Historical Missing Persons & Cold Murder Cases
Loretta “Lora” Ann Frank was a young Indigenous woman from the Tahltan First Nation whose disappearance from Whitehorse, Yukon, more than three decades ago remains unresolved. Although her case is often associated with 1989, there is uncertainty surrounding exactly when she disappeared. What is known is that Lora was last known to be living in... Continue Reading →
Sadie Mae Rogers had lived a quiet life in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Born on April 3, 1901, she had never married and had spent much of her working life as a housekeeper. By 1981, Sadie was 80 years old and living alone at 112 Cordova Street. She was known around her neighbourhood, where the people... Continue Reading →
Lixian TanAlias: Leanne TanMissing since: September 20, 2024Missing from: Niagara Falls, ONYear of birth: 1994Age at disappearance: 29 yrsGender: FemaleEthnicity: AsianEye color: BrownHair: Black, LongHeight: 157 cms / 5ft 2inWeight: 45 kgs / 99 lbsPhysical Build: Slender/ThinComplexion: Light/Fair Details: Lixian “Leanne” Tan was 29 years old when she disappeared in September 2024. She had been... Continue Reading →
Esther Jones was 55 years old when she disappeared from Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley in the summer of 2024. What initially began as a search for a missing woman would change dramatically within days, becoming a homicide investigation that eventually stretched beyond Canada’s borders. Although police would ultimately charge a man with Esther’s murder, one... Continue Reading →
It was another busy week at Someone Saw Something, as we continued sharing the stories of people whose families are still waiting for answers. We revisited the disappearances of Roberta Ferguson, Cynthia Peddle, Cheryl Rose Roberts, Jake Corbiere, Brandon Pollock and Cynthia Sunga, along with the unsolved deaths of Gus Fourtounes and Mary Jane Hill.... Continue Reading →
On November 8, 1945, just months after the end of the Second World War, 29-year-old May Gwendoline Walton disappeared somewhere in New South Wales, Australia. More than 80 years later, May's name remains among Australia's historical missing-person cases. Yet unlike many disappearances that have accumulated newspaper stories, witness accounts and police theories over the decades,... Continue Reading →
Irene Jacknife’s story remained unresolved for nearly half a century, but not in the way her family could ever have imagined. For decades, those who loved her did not know where she had gone or what had happened to her. All the while, Irene had been buried in Edmonton as an unidentified woman, her name... Continue Reading →
On March 26, 1978, 31-year-old Mary Jane Hill was found dead along Highway 16 east of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. She was a Nisga'a woman and a mother of three. Her death occurred decades before the stretch of highway would become nationally known as the Highway of Tears, but her story would eventually become part... Continue Reading →
Kostas “Gus” Fourtounes was 40 years old and a father of two when his life was taken in Guelph, Ontario, during the early morning hours of August 25, 2005. More than twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder, making Gus’s case the oldest unresolved homicide currently being investigated by the Guelph... Continue Reading →
Cynthia Sunga was 29 years old when she disappeared from Ottawa, Ontario, in the summer of 2005. More than two decades later, remarkably little is publicly known about what happened to her during those final days. There have been no publicly confirmed sightings, no known contact with her family, and no discovery that has explained... Continue Reading →
