Historical Missing Persons & Cold Murder Cases
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 →
Viola Isabella Panacheese was last seen on August 18, 1991.
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 →
On October 11, 2022, Kirk Allan Boucher was last seen walking along a Highway 71 from Manitou Rapids First Nation toward Kenora, Ontario. Then, somewhere along the way, Kirk disappeared. He was 50 years old, Indigenous, and a member of Shoal Lake First Nation. Nearly four years later, he has never been found. On November... Continue Reading →
For a long time, the missing persons posts on this site (and page) followed a fairly straightforward format. I gathered the available information, organized the important details into bullet points, and tried to make the facts as easy as possible to read and share. While there was nothing inherently wrong with that approach. Names, dates,... Continue Reading →
On the afternoon of January 23, 2025, 40-year-old Ronald Lawrence Junior McCook walked away from a residence on Kenny Dam Road in the Saik'uz First Nation Reserve, just outside Vanderhoof, British Columbia. He was believed to be heading south toward the Saik'uz General Store. It was the last time anyone could say with certainty where... Continue Reading →
On the afternoon of November 27, 2022, 65-year-old Alexander Joseph Lawson, known to his family and friends as Alex or AJ, was last seen in the 200 block of Madeline Street in Thunder Bay, Ontario. No one knew that it would be the last confirmed sighting of him. Alex was a member of Lac Seul... Continue Reading →
In the early morning hours of October 16, 2015, 27-year-old John Hastings walked away from his sisters residence in downtown Winnipeg. No one knew it would be the last time he would ever be seen. There are few details surrounding John's disappearance. Investigators have never publicly identified the residence he left, where he intended to... Continue Reading →
In the winter of 2018, Donna Paré quietly disappeared from the streets of downtown Montréal. For many people, she had simply become another face in the crowd—a woman experiencing homelessness who spent her days navigating one of Canada's busiest cities. But to those who knew her, Donna was much more than that. She was an... Continue Reading →
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