Historical Missing Persons & Cold Murder Cases
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 →
Elodia Marilena Ghinescu was a 38-year-old lawyer living in Brașov, Romania, when she seemingly vanished without a trace in the late summer of 2007. What began as a missing-person investigation would eventually become one of the most sensational criminal cases Romania had ever seen - a mystery involving a troubled marriage, forensic evidence, years of... 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 →
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 →
Rhonda Homsombath was only 25 years old when she went out in Hamilton, Ontario, during the early morning hours of March 8, 2020. She was a mother to an eight-year-old daughter, and those who knew her remembered a young woman who was loving, caring and full of life. She had plans for her future and... Continue Reading →
Marley was shot and died on January 1, 2014
Tanya Jean Brooks was 36 years old when she was murdered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in May 2009. She was a Mi'kmaq woman associated with Millbrook First Nation and the mother of five children. More than seventeen years later, no one has been charged with taking her life. Her murder remains unsolved, and investigators have... Continue Reading →
On March 22, 2009, 33-year-old Judy Ann Quill was in Pikangikum First Nation, the remote northwestern Ontario community she had called home throughout her life. Judy was a mother of two, a daughter and a woman remembered by her family as someone who regularly visited her parents and helped them with everyday things. Before that... Continue Reading →
Shariek was shot and killed on August 12, 2015
