For more than 35 years, relatives of Ronnie and Doreen Jack have been haunted by questions about what happened on the night of Aug. 1, 1989.
Ronnie and Doreen — an Indigenous Canadian couple with two young sons, Ryan, 4, and Russell, 9 — were last heard from just before they accepted a stranger’s offer of a ride and a short-term job at a logging camp. In an economic bind, they jumped at the opportunity.
But after the Jack family got into the man’s pickup truck with hopes of turning the page towards better fortunes, they were never heard from again. Decades later, investigators are still stumped about what happened, while the Jack family has continued to raise awareness and search for clues.
Here’s what we know.
A Good Family
Ronnie and Doreen Jack met in school and became close after Doreen came to live with the Jack family following her father’s death, Ronnie’s mother Mabel told Canadian officials with the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in 2017. They became high school sweethearts, and later started a family.
Ronnie’s mother Mabel remembers her son and Doreen as a happy couple who were good to each other, with no signs of issues between them. But by August 1989, Ronnie was desperately looking for work, leading him to take a leap of faith when a stranger he’d met at a local pub offered him an odd job.
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