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Residents near an undisclosed Etobicoke park may be surprised to see dead dogs in their green space on Thursday.
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The working dogs will be with members of Please Bring Me Home (PBMH), a group of volunteers looking for missing people in cold cases, in a continuous search for the remains of Nicole Morin, who was eight years old when she disappeared a generation ago. .
On July 30, 1985, the girl left her apartment on the top floor of 627 The West Mall, going to meet a friend in the lobby, so they could use the pool in her building.
He was wearing his favorite peach swimsuit and a pair of red canvas shoes when he said goodbye to his mother and left the attic.
He was never seen again.
The city was galvanized by the news of Morin’s disappearance nearly 40 years ago, and its name has remained in the news and in the public consciousness.
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Earlier this month, it was announced that as part of a new missing persons unit, Toronto police have renewed their work on the case: there is a full-time investigator, among other staff members , dedicated to solving the disappearance of the child.
As reported by the Toronto Sun in June, officers conducted an extensive excavation north of the city based on various 2014 tips and information.
Det. Stella Karras said at the time that Morin’s case is being treated as a homicide.
The hope is that his body, once found, will get the DNA from his killer.
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On July 14, the PBMH group will search Etobicoke Park, reviewing the area based on information from an eyewitness who was 12 when Morin disappeared.
Brett Robinson, director of PBMH’s Central Canada, said eyewitnesses believe he saw Nicole with a man. The woman said she knew the man and had sexually assaulted him.
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Nick Oldrieve, executive director and co-founder of PBMH, said Thursday’s search is not being done “on a whim.”
“The location has a number of important factors, such as ease of access, the fact that certain parts of the park are hidden from public view and that it is close enough to where it disappeared to be a reasonable place to look. . ”
Police have said Morin never arrived in the lobby of her building where her friend was waiting for her, suggesting they took her to the building and that she could have gladly gone with someone.
Did anyone know?
It’s possible, Oldrieve said. Or it could have been someone in a uniform known to a child and trusted.
If it’s true they took her to the building, Oldrieve said, “you have to wonder if they were watching her. If she was premeditated.”
The person who caught Nicole Morin could have easily been working in the area and targeting her, he theorized.
Robinson will lead the search Thursday, where the immediate plan is to wait for the dead dogs to indicate something.
The long-term plan is to somehow close someday in this case.
Please take me home deliver whatever they find to the police. The group is 100% volunteer and has a GoFundMe page to fund the use of dead dogs on Thursdays.