Living the same nightmare as thousands of families across the country, Ann-Marie Neely can’t help but feel connection with others who have had a loved one vanish.
“I know what these families are going through, and I know what it is like not having the answers,” she said when explaining why she created a Facebook page called Missing People of Canada Unsolved Cold Cases.
Neely said she sees the page as a support group where people can come and know their loved ones aren’t forgotten.
“These people need to be found and have a proper resting place,” she said.
Her mother, Marilyn Ann Neely, disappeared in September 1983. Ann-Marie was 10 years old when her mother went missing in Peterborough. Her case remains unsolved after nearly 36 years.
“If I am not going to get the answers, and we can’t find my mom, let us at least help someone else and bring piece of mind for them,” she said.
Neely launched the page in early June and has posted almost 100 cases, reaching from Victoria to St. John’s, N.L.
“It takes a little bit of reading and little bit of research, but names keep popping up. I find it so shocking, because there are so many unsolved cases and unfound people.”
Peterborough police don’t know what happened to the Call A Cab employee and probably never will.
“We don’t know specifically if there is an offence there. There may or may not be,” Peterborough police Insp. Lynne Buehler said in a 2015 interview about the case.
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