Historical Missing Persons & Cold Murder Cases
In June 2017, Jodie Brooke Anderson was 18 years old, living in Nashville, Tennessee, and navigating circumstances that would have been difficult for anyone, let alone someone barely into adulthood. Most people called her by her middle name, Brooke. She was a young mother. Her son was only about a year old. Brooke was 5... Continue Reading →
It was Friday night, August 27, 1965, and somewhere along Toronto's Danforth Avenue, 32-year-old Leslie Alexander Bichener was spending part of his evening at the Danforth Hotel. The hotel stood at the southwest corner of Danforth Avenue and Dawes Road in Toronto's east end. It was an old neighborhood establishment with a history stretching back... 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 →
On the evening of August 17, 2022, life appeared to be moving toward a fresh beginning for Angela Morningstar Alexis. Just days earlier, the 28-year-old member of the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation had been released from the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre. She had spent time visiting her sister in Edmonton before returning home to her... Continue Reading →
Pip: Someone Saw Something takes us to New Zealand today — specifically to a warm summer afternoon in 1998 that ended with questions still unanswered more than twenty-five years later.Mara: This episode covers the disappearance and murder of a fifteen-year-old girl, a case that became one of the largest homicide inquiries in New Zealand's history.... Continue Reading →
Pip: Someone Saw Something is doing the work that too often gets left undone — keeping names in circulation, case numbers attached to real people, and questions alive long after investigators have gone quiet.Mara: Today we're in Edmonton, Alberta, following a disappearance that stretches back to 2013, and the family member who has refused to... Continue Reading →
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