Historical Missing Persons & Cold Murder Cases
Benita “Bonnie” Tarantino was only 17 years old when she disappeared from Toronto in the early morning hours of September 28, 1985. One month later, her body was discovered beside a lonely rural road north of the city. More than 40 years have passed, yet the person responsible for her death has never been identified.... Continue Reading →
Susan Anne Siegel was just 21 years old when she climbed into a vehicle on a cold Toronto night in December 1984. By the following morning, she had been found dead miles away. More than four decades later, the identity of the person who killed her remains unknown. On the evening of Sunday, December 16,... Continue Reading →
Lilliane Lyle Ford was 42 years old when her life came to a violent end in downtown Toronto in September 1990. More than 35 years later, remarkably little is publicly known about the woman herself, and the identity of the person who killed her remains a mystery. On the morning of Sunday, September 9, 1990,... Continue Reading →
Lori Marilyn Pinkus was just 21 years old when she moved from Ottawa to Toronto in 1991. She had only been living in the city for a matter of months when, during the early morning hours of September 8, her life came to a violent end. More than three decades later, Toronto Police still do... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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