Rumours have swirled through the Lake Erie village of Port Burwell about the fate of a man who disappeared without a trace more than two years ago.
But the younger sister of Roger Chretien, 54, who vanished June 16, 2022, believes whatever happened, he is most certainly dead and possibly a victim of foul play.
“We’re a real family, Roger never misses a birthday, an anniversary, nothing,” Tina Chretien said. “The only reason he wouldn’t be around is because he is dead. He wouldn’t run away.”
Roger and three others were fishing on the shore at the trailer park where he lived just east of Port Burwell on Lakeshore Line, Chretien said.
“Everybody says they don’t know anything,” she said. “We were told he left fishing 20 minutes before everybody else, but nobody knows where he went, what he did, he was just gone.”
If he died, Chretien said she has ruled out an accident because no body has been found.
“Anything is possible, but I highly doubt it,” she said. “Why would they hide his body if no foul play?”
There have been no recent updates from police, Chretien said.
“I hope the police haven’t given up,” she said. “You never feel like anybody is doing enough, but I do understand they have limits of what they are able to do.”
