Historical Missing Persons & Cold Murder Cases
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... Continue Reading →
Emanuela Orlandi’s disappearance is one of Italy’s most famous mysteries, but beneath the decades of conspiracy theories is a relatively simple and deeply unsettling missing-person case. A 15-year-old girl left her music school in central Rome on June 22, 1983, and never made it home. More than 43 years later, what happened to her remains... Continue Reading →
Mary Boyle was only six years old when she disappeared from a remote part of County Donegal on March 18, 1977. What should have been an ordinary family visit became the beginning of one of Ireland's longest-running and most controversial missing-child cases. Almost half a century later, Mary has never been found, no one has... Continue Reading →
On October 3, 2024, 45-year-old Patrick Garrett Chum disappeared from Cochrane, Ontario. Almost two years later, he remains missing, yet remarkably little has been made public about the circumstances surrounding his disappearance. Pat-Garrett was born in 1979 and is Indigenous. According to Canada's Missing, he is approximately 5'7" tall and weighs about 161 pounds, with... Continue Reading →
On October 20, 2024, contact with 29-year-old Gary Brandon Reno stopped. At the time, Gary was living and working in the remote Pink Mountain area of northeastern British Columbia. His family would later tell police that not hearing from him was out of character. As the days passed without word, concern grew over where he... Continue Reading →
Shanda Marissa Playford was 37 years old when she disappeared from Greater Sudbury, Ontario, on February 25, 2025. What began as a search for a missing woman has stretched into an investigation lasting more than a year, involving more than 100 police interviews, numerous tips and potential sightings, and a family determined to keep Shanda's... Continue Reading →
Forty-five-year-old Alyssa May Olsson was living in Nanaimo, British Columbia, when she seemingly disappeared from her life in June 2025. More than a year later, there has been no publicly confirmed sighting of her, no known communication from her, and one particularly concerning detail remains: investigators say there has been no banking activity on her... Continue Reading →
On the evening of October 2, 2000, 50-year-old Marilyn Zaitzeff left her cottage on Lambert Island in Lake Superior, in the Shuniah area east of Thunder Bay, Ontario. She climbed aboard a personal watercraft and headed out onto the lake. She never returned. The following day, Marilyn's watercraft was discovered overturned in Lake Superior. It... Continue Reading →
Viola Isabella Panacheese was last seen on August 18, 1991.
On a summer day in August 2021, 38-year-old Kari Lynn Rose Campbell travelled by taxi to the Durham Bridge area. What began as an apparently ordinary trip would become the final known journey of a woman whose family is still waiting to learn what happened to her. Kari lived in Fredericton and was the mother... Continue Reading →
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