Missing Person Commentary

Missing Person : Angela Morningstar Alexis Details from a government source (might be paraphrased) : On August 17th, 2022, a family member saw Angela Alexis for the last time as she was left a residence on the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation in Alberta. A few days before her disappearance, Angela had spent a few days socializing with family and friends. Last contact : August 17th, 2022 (Monday); but a news source said was went missing on September 2nd, 2022 ( APTN News ). Last location : Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation, Alberta (northwest of Edmonton, Alberta, close to the small town of Onoway, Alberta). Age when Angela Morningstar Alexis disappeared : 28 Sex : Female Height in inches : 66 Weight in pounds (lbs) : 170 Ethnicity : Aboriginal/Indigenous Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women : Click this hashtag at the end of the post to see all related posts. Hair color : Black/brown, long and straight Eye Color : Brown Scar or distinctive characteristic : Nothing found Link to Gover...

Missing Person : Brian Douglas Adrain Details from a government source (might be paraphrased) : On February 5th, 1991, Brian Adrain was seen for the last time. Brian’s abandoned vehicle was found west of Millarville, also known as McLean Creek, in the Kananaskis area in Alberta. Last contact : February 5th, 1991 (Tuesday) Last location : Kananaskis, Alberta, west of Millarville or McLean Creek Age when Brian Douglas Adrain disappeared : 37 Sex : Male Height in inches : 69 Weight in pounds (lbs) : 146 Ethnicity : White/Caucasian Hair color : Brown and long Eye Color : Green Scar or distinctive characteristic : Link to Government Source (Canada's Missing) : 2014003507 (right click to open) Online discussion page : Brian Douglas Adrain (right-click to open) BMI means body mass index. It is meant to describe someone's healthy body weight relative to the individual's height. It is only food for thought because it does not account for all body types. BMI means...

Missing Person : Gloria Jean Abotossaway Nickname : Marty Details from a government source (might be paraphrased) : On February 14th, 1992, Gloria Abotossaway was last seen by a family member on Shuter Street in Toronto, Ontario. Last contact : February 14th, 1992 (Friday) DOB : October 7th, 1963 Last location : Toronto, Ontario on Shuter Street Age when Gloria Jean Abotossaway disappeared : 28 Sex : Female Height in inches : 62 Weight in pounds (lbs) : 130 Ethnicity : Aboriginal/Indigenous Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women : Click the tag "missing and murdered aboriginal women" to see all the cases that are profiled at this site Hair color : Brown and long Eye Color : Brown Scar or distinctive characteristic : Nothing found Link to Government Source (Canada's Missing) : 2014005078 (right click to open) Websleuths discussion page : Gloria Jean Abotossaway (right click to open) BMI means body mass index. It is meant to describe someone's healthy b...

Missing Person : Marlene Yvonne Abignosis Details from a government source (might be paraphrased) : Marlene Abigosis was last seen in March of 1984 in the downtown east side of Vancouver. Marlene was engaged in a high-risk lifestyle. Marlene was known to work near the docks, and clients who owned boats would take Marlene with them on trips to Washington State and Vancouver Island. Last contact : January 1st, 1984* *Disclaimer: when a person is listed as missing on January 1st of a particular year, it can mean that they went missing on any date in that calendar year.   Last location : Vancouver, BC Age when Marlene Yvonne Abignosis disappeared : 27 Sex : Female Height in inches : 66 Weight in pounds (lbs) : 119 Ethnicity : Aboriginal/Indigenous Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women : Click the hashtag to see all of the "missing and murdered aboriginal women" profiled at this site Hair color : Black and wavy shoulder-lengthed hair Eye Color : Brown Scar or distinc...

Missing Person : Verna Susan Bjerky Details from a government source (might be paraphrased) : On May 2nd, 1981, Verna Bjerky was seen for the last time hitchhiking from Hope to Kamloops, British Columbia. She carried roller skates over her shoulder and was seen getting into a vehicle with a lone occupant. Verna has not been seen or heard from since. Last contact : A local boy saw her on May 2nd, 1981 (Saturday) at about 4 PM. Presumably, this was the person who saw her enter a vehicle. A friend of Verna's had seen her at about 1 PM in nearby Hope, BC. Last location : Yale, BC is often listed as her last-known location, however, most of the early journalism suggested she was seen closer to Hope, BC, on the edge of town near the Trans Canada Highway. Age when Verna Susan Bjerky disappeared : 16 (near her 17th birthday but she was 16 when last seen) DOB : May 10th, 1981 Sex : Female Height in Inches : 61-62 Weight in pounds (lbs) : 110 - 115 Ethnicity : White/Caucasian Hair...

Missing Person : Jesokah Adkens Details from a government source (might be paraphrased) : Jesokah was last seen at approximately 21:30 hours. It was thought that she was going to take a transit bus back to the village of Sooke, where her residence was located. By my research, this would have been a short trip. Last contact : September 26th, 2001 (Wednesday), seen at 9:30pm. November 10th, 2001. Times Colonist. Last location : Sooke, BC near Sooke Road, which appears as BC Highway 14 or Juan De Fuca Highway on modern maps. In newspaper coverage, it says she was last seen "heading" to a bus stop outside Saseenos Elementary School, which is near where she went to high school. Furthermore, these buildings were not far from her home.  After researching the case, I would say Sooke Road around Saseenos Elementary School and Edward Milne Community School is where she was last seen. I did notice that the newspaper coverage of her last known location toggled between her last being ...

By : Shane Lambert Original time of writing : February 3rd, 2025 Duncan MacPherson was a former Canadian hockey player who died at the age of 23 in the Austrian Alps. His missing person case has been covered extensively in media, including at The Infographics Show and by the Canadian television show The Fifth Estate . His case is relevant to missing person investigations because it highlights how the details of a missing person's disappearance -- and even a death -- could be covered up by the for-profit sector. Furthermore, as MacPherson was a former professional hockey player, he was not part of the marginalized sectors of society. If his death can be swept under the rug, then it could happen to anybody. Duncan MacPherson. A former missing person, found after 14 years.   On August 9th, 1989, MacPherson was snowboarding for the first time in Austria. He disappeared on the slopes and there were two big clues regarding his disappearance that should have been obvious close to August ...

By : Shane Lambert Original time of writing : February 3rd, 2025 The Fifth Estate, the legendary Canadian television show, published an interesting episode on YouTube not too long ago on the topic of missing people. Titled "Why are people vanishing in Dawson Creek, BC?" the episode was uploaded to YouTube on October 11th, 2024. It covers a spat of crime, which includes seemingly clandestine disappearances, in the small city (big town?) of Dawson Creek, British Columbia. The documentary-style television program touches on a range of issues related to missing people. In the case of Dawson Creek, there was the suggestion that the town seeing a spike in economic activity is a factor in the increase in crime in the area. I had a lot of thoughts on this. Firstly, I don't think that a strong economy necessarily increases crime.  I think impoverished communities have tons of crimes occurring, crimes that simply never enter official statistics. Along these lines, I do think a str...

By : Shane Lambert Original time of writing : February 3rd, 2025 Dana Leigh Mustian was a missing person. However, according to a recent news article from February 1st, 2025 at WRAL News, she was recently found deceased. "The body of a North Carolina woman missing for more than a year was recovered by a dive team Thursday in Vance County," the article stated in its subheading. Mustian still has her missing person profile active at NamUs, the national database in the USA for missing people. However, that will likely be taken down soon. She was last seen alive on November 30th, 2023 walking down Dorothy Road toward Connell Road in Warrenton, North Carolina. The news article said that a dive team found her body. She did go missing from a rural area and there are a lot of small bodies of water in the immediate area where she disappeared, There is a Websleuths forum for this chat page. There were many photos of this person on her Facebook page and post activity until October 8t...

By : Shane Lambert Original Time of Writing : February 1st, 2025 UP137660  is an unidentified female who was found on a beach on June 14th, 1951 in Hampton, Virginia. I think we are looking at a newborn baby in this case. This Jane Doe's NamUs page states that she was in the pre-adolescent group and that she had been dead for about two days at the time of her dead body's discovery. Usually, the dead giveaway for a newborn baby as a Jane Doe is the height and weight (ie. they are exceptionally small). In this case, NamUs does not have those details provided. However, I am pretty sure that I found a news story covering this event. As reported in the Daily Press  on June 15th, 1951, two boys found a black newborn baby on a beach in an area called Phoebus. NamUs does say the body was found "laying on a beach" so the NamUs description does match the news story below. Furthermore, the date matches as does the sex, race, and location (Phoebus is in Hampton, Virginia). These ...

Missing Person : Juanita Migwans Nickname or Alias : Winnie Details from a government source (might be paraphrased) : Juanita Migwans was last seen on October 4th, 2024, on Riverside Drive in the First Nation of M'Chiqueeng, Ontario. Juanita lost her cell phone and bank card, the last banking activity was on September 25th, 2024. Her family and friends are concerned for her well-being as she hasn't been heard from. Last contact : October 4th, 2024 (Friday) Last location : M'Chigeeng First Nation, Ontario, on Manitoulin Island Age when Juanita Migwans disappeared : 30 Sex : Female Height in inches : 66 Weight in pounds (lbs) : 110 lbs, described as thin or slender, and looks petite in her photos. She would be underweight by BMI standards. Ethnicity : Indigenous. Pale to slightly swarthy appearance in photos. Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women : Click the hashtag at the end of this webpage to see all of the missing aboriginal women in Canada who are profiled at t...

By : Shane Lambert Original time of writing : January 29th, 2025 A snippet from the episode. The Infographics Show , a popular YouTube channel, released a new episode today. Titled "How They Finally Caught the Serial Killer With the Highest IQ," the show tells of the exploits of Rodney Alcala. Dubbed "The Dating Game Killer," Alcala's life is one of the worst stories of a serial killer walking openly in public despite numerous brushes with the law. The first time I learned of Alcala was back in 2010 when a locker full of photographs that belonged to him was found. A lot of these photographs were published in hopes that the public would help identify the subjects. Some of the women in the photos self-identified as subjects while others were of missing people. Presumptively, Alcala had played a leading role in disappearing these missing people. July 25th, 1979. LA Times. The episode at The Infographics Show is short, running just 22 minutes and 31 seconds. I woul...

Missing Person : Reba Dawn McCoy Details from a government source (might be paraphrased) : Family last saw Reba in March 1999 in Columbus, Ohio. She had a possible destination for travel being New York (note: presumptively NYC as opposed to New York state). Last contact : March 28th, 1999 (Sunday) Last location : Columbus, Ohio (one source said the Southfield area of Ohio) Age when Reba Dawn McCoy disappeared : 32 Sex : Female Height in inches : 62 (which is 5'2") Weight in pounds (lbs) : 110 Ethnicity : White/Caucasian Hair color : Brown, long Eye Color : Green Scar or distinctive characteristic : Tattoo on upper left arm (in the picture, it looks like the tattoo is of a word that starts with a "D" and maybe "Da". Link to Government Source : MP137310  (right click to open)  Websleuths discussion page : Reba Dawn McCoy  (right click to open) BMI means body mass index. It is meant to describe someone's healthy body weight relative to the...

By : Shane Lambert Original Time of Writing : January 28th, 2025 Occasionally, I look at cases of missing persons grouped together by a commonality. For instance, I have looked at several cases where women who experienced car troubles went missing . In another similar article, I looked at people who went missing off of a hiking trails . Other people have noted that missing people are often involved in hitchhiking.  When looking at cases involving missing people, I believe that the same kinds of events play out over and over again. Details certainly vary but in looking at what unifies cases, we can brainstorm the risk factors with regard to what's present when someone goes missing. Today, I will be looking at a few cases involving people who have gone missing after attending a party. The tag I have chosen for this category of missing people is "went missing after a party." At the original time of writing, I only had tagged three cases with this phrase. Ryan Shtuka , who we...

By : Shane Lambert Original time of writing : January 27th, 2025 "The Luckiest Kamikaze Pilot" is an episode on The Infographics Show that was published on January 26th, 2025. It tells the story of a WWII Japanese pilot who operated a Zero plane as part of Japan's air force. I didn't mind the episode, it was short (under 15 minutes), however, I was a little disappointed with it relative to other episodes on the YouTube channel. Kamikaze fighters were pilots on suicide missions. Their job was to fly their planes into enemy ships with the hopes of sinking them. The strategy would be to trade one pilot and one plane for an entire ship in the enemy's fleet and any crew that would be part of the ship. With this episode, I think The Infographics Show managed their audience's expectations wrong. When you look at the name of the episode, then you might expect a tale of a Kamikaze pilot who crashed his plane into an enemy's ship and somehow survived the crash. Th...

By : Shane Lambert The original time of writing : January 26th, 2025 The case of the missing Sodder children is one of the enduring missing people mysteries in America. On Christmas Eve and in the time frame leading up to that night in 1945, there were some strange occurrences at a West Virginia home belonging to George and Jennie Sodder. What resulted was a house fire and five missing children, a mystery that remains unsolved nearly 80 years later. Did the children die in the house fire or were they kidnapped? The theories on what happened to them seem only to toggle between these two options. I watched a review of this mystery on The Infographics Show's  YouTube channel tonight. They made this episode on February 23rd, 2024. It's a good and short episode on the topic. I like the YouTube channel for reviewing facts in missing person cases and I recommend it to anyone interested in the mystery of missing Sodder children . Screenshot from The Infographics Show's  episode on ...

By : Shane Lambert (reviewer) Original Time of Writing : January 25th, 2025 The Infographics Show did a deep dive into the O.J. Simpson case. Those in the 45+ crowd will likely vividly remember the case, involving the former NFL player and small-time actor. Those a little younger will probably be at least familiar with the case, as it was a media sensation and it has been looked back at time and time again.  On the night of June 12th, 1994, someone, presumably O.J. Simpson, killed Nicole Brown Simpson, O.J.'s ex-wife, and Ronald Goldman, a young man in the wrong place at the wrong time. O.J. Simpson was put on trial for the murders and acquitted with many looking back and commentating that race, instead of evidence, played a big role in the case. The Infographics Show Screenshot of the jury. YouTube Channel : The Infographics Show Episode : Everything You Didn't Know About O.J. Simpson's Murder Trial Date : January 23rd, 2025 One thing I liked about this episode was just t...