Robert “Bud” Wiggins was a speed demon with “more guts than a pork sausage.” He loved racing souped-up snowmobiles and building fast cars.
For 29 years he survived high-speed rollovers and drag races over the Prince Albert bridge in his Chevy Camaro. But in 1980, the Wiggins family lost their loving son and brother not to a fast car but — it’s believed — to the hands of a killer.
“I think, in the end, he met a violent end,” said Wiggins’ brother Bill during an interview in January at the city police station in Prince Albert.
“That’s what everything points to. Anybody that knows anything certainly isn’t saying. He lived a high-risk lifestyle but that doesn’t mean he deserved what he got.”
Robert Wiggins disappeared after a Prince Albert house party and has not been seen since. It’s believed he dabbled in the drug trade, selling pot and maybe a little cocaine. Forty years after his disappearance, both of his parents have passed away and his brother Bill — who was 26 at the time — is 66 years old.
His family is one of about 130 in Saskatchewan who live with burning questions about what happened to their missing relatives. But now, police have new tools to use on old cases, including a national DNA database, technological advances in forensic science and creative social media campaigns.
Wiggins’s case is one of nine being revisited by a dedicated cold case investigator at the Prince Albert Police Service. The RCMP has created new positions dedicated to missing persons investigations.
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