They may be decades apart but Ellen White still sees unique parallels between six missing persons cases which all are tied to the old North Bay Psychiatric Hospital which was located on Highway 11 North, north of the city of North Bay.
Ellen White, is a private investigator who runs a podcast called “Whereabouts Unknown”.
“The common link is they all happened at the old psychiatric hospital; the old building on the highway,” said White, who is based out of Barrie.
The six, include Philippe Guerin (1966), Dawn Carisse (2001), Terry Zubko (1982), Norman Welsh (1976), Glen Wesley (2010) and Russell Hoffert (2000).
“They are all horrific and all very very sad, and they are all families who would desperately want some information about them,” she said.
“But what has been really interesting about this case is the number of tips we have had and that is from current and former employees of the hospital and people from the community of North Bay.
“Lots of information, lots of lives; all of their families impacted. It is interesting when we hear the ‘standard or care’ because there is an expectation that people will walk away from psychiatric hospitals and we get that, and we get that not all people are held under lock and key.”
White is working in connection with the North Bay Police and the families to try and find more clues as to what happened to all these missing former psychiatric hospital patients.
She says the Guerin one is the oldest and possibly the most bizarre scenario.
