Adair Townsend has not been forgotten.
Pictou District RCMP Cpl. Natasha Farrell said on May 21 that the file for the missing woman remains open but “we don’t have any updates. We need clues. Clothing, video surveillance, something to give us a starting point.”
Townsend, 73, went missing around noon on April 8. She was last seen in the Mount Wiliam area the following day, but after ground search and rescue teams conducted an extensive search for more than a week, requiring an estimated 4,700 volunteer hours, officials suspended the search for the New Glasgow woman.
Farrell said the RCMP used sophisticated drones and the RCMP K-9 unit earlier this month as the search briefly resumed, but those efforts came up empty.
“The drones were out after the volunteer search was stopped,” she said.
She urged cottage owners to be on the lookout and check their properties for anything that might lead to a break in the case.
New Glasgow Regional Police, along with Pictou County Volunteer Ground Search and Rescue, had a command centre set up at Steeltown Centennial Park in Trenton for several days, but they shut it down on April 13. The RCMP then took over the file.
Several ground search and rescue teams from across Nova Scotia, along with a Department of Natural Resources helicopter, had helped with the search, which was focused predominantly on the Mount William/Trenton connector area.
Townsend reportedly has a mild case of Alzheimer’s and takes regular walks on her own.
She is described as being five feet two inches tall, weighing approximately 110 pounds (50 kilograms) with medium length grey hair. At the time she went missing, Townsend was wearing glasses, a grey/blue coat and black Doc Marten boots.
