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EARLY LIFE:
Lois Hanna was calved connected February 3, 1963 to Olive and Ernest. She was 1 of 4 sibling, with she and her brothers – Jim, John and Dave – increasing up connected the household workplace successful Holyrood, adjacent Kincardine, Ontario, Canada.
The radiant young pistillate was raised to beryllium sensible and self-sufficient, and she wasn’t acrophobic to amusement her amusive side. She besides had a keen involvement successful fashion, spurred connected by her winning 2 section quality pageants and being named the runner up astatine the Miss CNE contention successful Toronto. She wanted a vocation successful the tract and attended the Fashion Studies programme astatine Fanshawe College, aft which she got a occupation arsenic a manner consultant.
Lois was incredibly adjacent to Olive and became adjacent much truthful aft her father’s passing successful March 1988; his decease prompted her to walk adjacent much clip with her mother.
LEAD UP TO DISAPPEARANCE:
Lois attended the Celebrate In ’88 festival astatine Lucknow Arena successful Lucknow, Ontario connected the evening of July 3, 1988. The weekend-long solemnisation of the community’s 130th day was closing retired with a dance, and she and Dave decided to partake successful the festivities.
Lois approached her member astatine 11:45 PM, to pass him she was heading home, arsenic she didn’t privation to beryllium precocious for enactment the adjacent day. She made the abbreviated thrust to her residence astatine 286 Nelson Street, successful Kincardine, arriving by 12:15 AM.
DISAPPEARANCE:
Despite Lois having been acrophobic the erstwhile nighttime astir being precocious for her displacement astatine MacG’s, she didn’t amusement up that morning. Typically 1 for punctuality, this acrophobic her co-worker, who alerted different workfellow to the 25-year-old’s absence.
Lois’ workfellow decided to thrust by her location and cheque connected her. When nary 1 answered the door, the woman, fearing she was sick, climbed done an unlocked window. No 1 was there, prompting the co-worker to interaction Dave, who instantly called the now-defunct Kincardine Police Department.
An serviceman arrived on-scene, but took the cognition that Lois had simply gone disconnected determination and would instrumentality soon. Dave wasn’t convinced and organized a hunt enactment consisting of dozens of household friends. Using all-terrain vehicles and motorcycles, they scoured section properties and went door-to-door. They adjacent equipped themselves with divers and 2 aircraft. As the hunt continued into the night, the manager of the section Canadian Tire re-opened the store, truthful they could equip themselves with spotlights.
Without immoderate motion of his sister, Dave announced a $10,000 reward for accusation starring to Lois’ whereabouts. Nothing came of this, causing the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) to measurement in. Their archetypal people of enactment was to circulate missing persons posters crossed the region.
INVESTIGATION:
According to the constabulary investigation, Lois’ car was recovered parked successful her driveway. A hunt of her location recovered the tv and surviving country lights were inactive on, and determination was a half-finished cupful of caller beverage connected the room counter. Her keys and purse were successful the china cupboard wherever she typically kept them, and the outfit she’d worn to the creation was hung up successful her closet. The lone happening missing was a peach-coloured nightgown and matching robe, signalling Lois had been location agelong capable to alteration apparel and spell astir her nightly routine.
The interior of the location besides showed nary signs of a struggle; determination were nary indications of forced entry, and the doors had been locked from the inside. The lone happening to amusement that thing had happened wrong the residence were 2 pea-sized drops of humor connected the wall, adjacent the broadside door.
Hundreds of radical were interviewed during the investigation, including the Hanna family, who were cleared aft being fixed polygraph tests. Video footage and photos were besides collected from the dance, to spot if anyone – oregon thing – of involvement could beryllium noted, and respective searches were held. Nothing of worth was found.
While speaking with locals, it was learnt that 2 men had been seen wandering astir MacG’s astir 9:30 AM connected the greeting of July 4. Hunters besides called successful suspected graves, which were dug up and recovered to beryllium carnal bony fragments.
Investigators judge Lois was either followed location from Lucknow Arena oregon that idiosyncratic was watching her house, with her slayer apt having been astatine the dance. It’s thought the chartless idiosyncratic followed her location to Kincardine, aft which they abducted and killed her, earlier hiding her body. Given the deficiency of grounds of forced entry, it’s apt Lois knew her killer.
Over the years, speculation has suggested that Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka; Pat Takken; oregon Russell Williams could beryllium liable for Lois’ death. While Bernardo was known to abrogation successful adjacent Owen Sound during the summer, constabulary person discounted his involvement.
There’s besides a content wrong the assemblage that Lois’ disappearance could beryllium related to that of 22-year-old Lisa Leona Maas, who went missing connected July 17, 1988, aft leaving a enactment successful Woodford, Ontario with a antheral acquaintance. Her greenish 1976 Plymouth Fury was recovered on a unsighted roadworthy moving done a workplace property. When constabulary interviewed the antheral she’d near with, helium claimed to person driven her backmost to wherever her car was parked, aft which they went their abstracted ways.
In 1998, the OPP utilized DNA exertion to make a database of 14 persons of involvement – each men. They watched 1 of them for 9 months, and each but 1 person been excluded from consideration.
Information that came into constabulary successful 2019 led to Eganville, successful Eastern Ontario. According to reports, he’d moved from Lucknow to the township conscionable a fewer years prior, and Dave believes helium is someway linked to Lois’ disappearance. It’s important to enactment that this unnamed idiosyncratic was questioned by investigators backmost successful 1988.
Please Bring Me Home, a section unpaid organization, became funny successful Lois’ lawsuit successful 2019. They launched a hunt with cadaver dogs that year, and organized different successful May 2023, which progressive 40 friends, household members and those with an involvement successful the case. The renewed hunt was based connected accusation from a section man, who recalled seeing a pistillate moving successful a nightgown and screaming for assistance betwixt Lucknow and the family’s Holyrood workplace astir 2:00 AM and 3:00 AM connected the greeting of July 4, 1988. The country was besides adjacent to a gravel pit wherever the man’s lad had recovered a achromatic bra conscionable a twelvemonth later.
The antheral reportedly told investigators astir this 2 years aft Lois went missing, but felt helium wasn’t taken seriously. Other tips person corroborated this imaginable sighting.
AFTERMATH:
Lois’ disappearance had a devastating effect connected her mother, who passed distant successful January 2013. Speaking with The Eganville Leader, Dave said:
“My ma died specified a achy and bittersweet decease and she ne'er got implicit Lois going missing. That broke her bosom and destroyed her. Every time she suffered and waited for quality connected her small miss who ne'er came location 1 night. Up until the extremity she waited for quality and erstwhile she yet passed away, I said goodbye to her and Lois for the past time.”
DETAILS:
Lois Marie Hanna went missing from Kincardine, Ontario, Canada connected July 4, 1988. She was 25 years aged astatine the time, and is believed to person been wearing a peach-coloured nightgown and matching robe. She had curly brownish hairsbreadth and brownish eyes, stood astatine 5’4″ and weighed 119-120 pounds.
The missing woman’s teeth were said to beryllium successful bully condition. She has a scar connected her precocious close leg.
CASE CONTACT DETAILS:
Foul play is powerfully suspected successful Lois’ disappearance, with the OPP believing she was murdered and her assemblage buried adjacent Holyrood, Ontario. At the clip she went missing, she was known to thrust a burgundy and grey 1987 Pontiac Grand AM. While it was recovered successful her driveway, investigators would similar to talk with anyone who whitethorn person seen it connected the nighttime of July 3-4, 1988 successful the country betwixt Lucknow and Kincardine.
The Ontario Provincial Government is presently offering a $50,000 reward for accusation starring to Lois’ location.
Anyone with accusation is asked to telephone the OPP’s Kincardine detachment astatine (519) 396-3341 oregon its Criminal Investigations Branch astatine either (705) 329-6111 oregon +1 (888) 310-1122. Tips tin besides beryllium submitted anonymously via Crime Stoppers astatine +1 (800) 222-8477.
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