Missing From Her Own Apartment Building:
Oct 11, 2023 15:03:46 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Oct 11, 2023 15:03:46 GMT
What Happened to Nicole Morin? Toronto Canada, July 30, 1985
Disappearance
Nicole Louise Morin was born on April 1, 1977 to parents Art and Jeannette Morin. Nicole was their only child and at the time she vanished Nicole lived with her mother on the 20th floor of an apartment building in the Etobicoke area of Toronto. Art lived in Mississauga at the time. Nicole was described as a "happy-go-lucky child who was fun to be around," and loved playing imaginary games with her friends.
On July 30, 1985, at around 11 in the morning, Nicole left her apartment to meet her friend in the apartment building's lobby so they could go swimming together at the apartment building's pool. The pool was in the back of the complex, and before Nicole left her apartment she spoke to her friend on the intercom saying that she'd be right down. However, "there has been a debate about whether Nicole was last seen entering the elevator or walking down the hallway." Nicole was never seen again.
Fifteen minutes after Nicole left her apartment, her friend buzzed the intercom and asked where Nicole was. Jeannette, who ran a small childcare out of her home, said that Nicole had already left and that maybe she was playing with other children "at the rear of the complex." Unfortunately, it wasn't until hours later that Jeannette realized that Nicole was missing and would call the police at around 3pm. Police took to action quickly at the scene, they began canvassing the apartment building and the surrounding area right away.
When police began knocking on all 429 doors of the complex, a woman told them that she saw Nicole either waiting or entering the elevator (it seems like this woman assumed Nicole entered the elevator). But after this, the girl's whereabouts couldn't be determined. Roadblocks were set up in the surrounding neighborhoods and some police vehicles even had PA systems that made announcements to the city to be on the lookout for Nicole. The local Crimestoppers group helped print fliers and post them around Toronto. There is a $10,000 reward still being offered to this day.
Police also spoke to any local sex offenders in the area, but none of them seemed to be involved. Nicole's family and any family friends would be eliminated as well. It seemed like whole city of Toronto was looking for Nicole. But after she vanished, police found a sentence in Nicole's diary that read "I'm going to disappear." Because Nicole was only 8 and had a big imagination, police didn't know what to make of it...kids at that age can make all kinds of things up, and maybe Nicole had read a book or saw something on TV that could've made her think about that.
In recent years, cadaver dogs searched Nicole's neighborhood once again, this time looking for her remains. This search was organized by a Canadian group called Please Bring Me Home, who kind of acts like a go-between for the public and law enforcement. According to a local news article: Thursday was the first time members of PBMH searched for Morin’s body. The group turned its attention to the Etobicoke park based on a potential eyewitness: a woman who two years ago claimed to have seen Morin the morning she disappeared with a man she knew. It is possible that the police overlooked someone that Nicole knew at the time she vanished or if her case is related to any other cases, like that of Christine Jessop.
It seems as though Nicole Morin vanished into thin air on July 30, 1985. When she was last seen she was 8 years old, wearing a peach one piece bathing suit with colored stripes, a green headband, red canvas shoes, had a peach blanket and a purple towel which she seemed to be carrying in a plastic bag. Nicole was around 4 feet tall and around 51 pounds with brown hair and eyes. Nicole had a gap between her front teeth and a birthmark on the right side of her forehead. She would now be in her 40s.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/cadaver-dogs-return-a-hit-in-etobicoke-search-for-nicole-morin-missing-since-1985/article_b3fc648a-3ffa-5a11-b5d8-462134050593.html
www.missingkids.ca/en/missing-children-database/43
www.doenetwork.org/cases/41dfon.html
www.toronto.com/news/nicole-s-run-draws-attention-to-30-year-anniversary-of-the-disappearance-of-nicole-morin/article_eda8a1cd-1d62-5769-b6d7-9f495148a274.html?
toronto.citynews.ca/2022/07/05/nicole-morin-etobicoke-cold-case/
torontosun.com/news/local-news/hunter-exclusive-cops-turn-up-heat-on-nicole-morin-disappearance
thecrimewire.com/true-crime/into-thin-air-the-disappearance-of-8-year-old-nicole-morin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Nicole_Morin
The local Toronto Crimestoppers did a re-enactment of Nicole's case:
Disappearance
Nicole Louise Morin was born on April 1, 1977 to parents Art and Jeannette Morin. Nicole was their only child and at the time she vanished Nicole lived with her mother on the 20th floor of an apartment building in the Etobicoke area of Toronto. Art lived in Mississauga at the time. Nicole was described as a "happy-go-lucky child who was fun to be around," and loved playing imaginary games with her friends.
On July 30, 1985, at around 11 in the morning, Nicole left her apartment to meet her friend in the apartment building's lobby so they could go swimming together at the apartment building's pool. The pool was in the back of the complex, and before Nicole left her apartment she spoke to her friend on the intercom saying that she'd be right down. However, "there has been a debate about whether Nicole was last seen entering the elevator or walking down the hallway." Nicole was never seen again.
Fifteen minutes after Nicole left her apartment, her friend buzzed the intercom and asked where Nicole was. Jeannette, who ran a small childcare out of her home, said that Nicole had already left and that maybe she was playing with other children "at the rear of the complex." Unfortunately, it wasn't until hours later that Jeannette realized that Nicole was missing and would call the police at around 3pm. Police took to action quickly at the scene, they began canvassing the apartment building and the surrounding area right away.
When police began knocking on all 429 doors of the complex, a woman told them that she saw Nicole either waiting or entering the elevator (it seems like this woman assumed Nicole entered the elevator). But after this, the girl's whereabouts couldn't be determined. Roadblocks were set up in the surrounding neighborhoods and some police vehicles even had PA systems that made announcements to the city to be on the lookout for Nicole. The local Crimestoppers group helped print fliers and post them around Toronto. There is a $10,000 reward still being offered to this day.
Police also spoke to any local sex offenders in the area, but none of them seemed to be involved. Nicole's family and any family friends would be eliminated as well. It seemed like whole city of Toronto was looking for Nicole. But after she vanished, police found a sentence in Nicole's diary that read "I'm going to disappear." Because Nicole was only 8 and had a big imagination, police didn't know what to make of it...kids at that age can make all kinds of things up, and maybe Nicole had read a book or saw something on TV that could've made her think about that.
In recent years, cadaver dogs searched Nicole's neighborhood once again, this time looking for her remains. This search was organized by a Canadian group called Please Bring Me Home, who kind of acts like a go-between for the public and law enforcement. According to a local news article: Thursday was the first time members of PBMH searched for Morin’s body. The group turned its attention to the Etobicoke park based on a potential eyewitness: a woman who two years ago claimed to have seen Morin the morning she disappeared with a man she knew. It is possible that the police overlooked someone that Nicole knew at the time she vanished or if her case is related to any other cases, like that of Christine Jessop.
It seems as though Nicole Morin vanished into thin air on July 30, 1985. When she was last seen she was 8 years old, wearing a peach one piece bathing suit with colored stripes, a green headband, red canvas shoes, had a peach blanket and a purple towel which she seemed to be carrying in a plastic bag. Nicole was around 4 feet tall and around 51 pounds with brown hair and eyes. Nicole had a gap between her front teeth and a birthmark on the right side of her forehead. She would now be in her 40s.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/cadaver-dogs-return-a-hit-in-etobicoke-search-for-nicole-morin-missing-since-1985/article_b3fc648a-3ffa-5a11-b5d8-462134050593.html
www.missingkids.ca/en/missing-children-database/43
www.doenetwork.org/cases/41dfon.html
www.toronto.com/news/nicole-s-run-draws-attention-to-30-year-anniversary-of-the-disappearance-of-nicole-morin/article_eda8a1cd-1d62-5769-b6d7-9f495148a274.html?
toronto.citynews.ca/2022/07/05/nicole-morin-etobicoke-cold-case/
torontosun.com/news/local-news/hunter-exclusive-cops-turn-up-heat-on-nicole-morin-disappearance
thecrimewire.com/true-crime/into-thin-air-the-disappearance-of-8-year-old-nicole-morin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Nicole_Morin
The local Toronto Crimestoppers did a re-enactment of Nicole's case:
