Gloria Jean Abotossaway -- Missing Since February 14th, 1992

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 body weight relative to the individual's height. It is only food for thought because it does not account for all body types.

Gloria Jean Abotossaway had a BMI of 23.77. She was at a healthy weight by BMI standards at the time of her disappearance.

Commentary and Research

By: Shane Lambert
Original time of writing: February 11th, 2025

At the original time of writing, full research on this case is pending. However, I wanted to get some bullet points onto the website regarding this case. I felt that there was some good information at the Websleuths page for this missing person (her page is hyperlinked above).

The Websleuths page itself hyperlinks back to Canada's Missing, the RCMP's website for Canada's missing people. However, it's not clear where the user got the info (web pages change all the time). It did state the following pointers:
  • She lived at 90 Shuter Street.
  • The MP said she was going to Moss Park with her boyfriend, someone named Lenny.
  • They were going to mean someone named Bob Russo.
  • Gloria Abotossaway took her birth certificate and status card with her (a status card is a card that some Indigenous people in Canada have; it is government identification); She was a member of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nations, otherwise known as Sucker Creek First Nations in Little Current, Manitoulin Island.
  • Had previous disappearances that were presumptively voluntary and short-term.
  • There was a murder in her apartment the night she disappeared. The victim was David Marlatt.
  • There was a statement saying that Gloria was not considered to be involved in anything suspicious, despite the murder of someone in her apartment.
Her address at 90 Shuter Street goes back in Google Maps until September 2007. You can visit this page to see the building and what it looked like at that time. It's said she was going to Moss Park, which would be a very short walk from her address.

She did go missing on Valentine's Day and the MP was with her boyfriend. This wasn't someone that anyone in her circles knew well as he has not been identified (only as "Lenny"). However, I think the elephant in the room with this case was that there was a murder in her apartment the night of her disappearance. She clearly wasn't having a standard day.




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