A missing Canadian women who vanished 5 decades ago was found alive and well after her daughter made an effort to find her.
Lucy Johnson, an Alaskan native, was last seen by a neighbor in Sept. 1961 at her family’s home in Surrey, British Columbia. Her husband, Marvin Johnson, did not report her missing until 1965, causing the police to treat the case as a murder investigation.
Marvin was thoroughly questioned by police because they thought he was involved in the disappearance, but no evidence was found against him so he was never charged. After the Royal Canadian Mounted Police compared Lucy’s DNA to unidentified human remains held by the BC Coroner’s Office and found no match, the case was left cold.
Lucy and Marvin married in 1954 and had two children, Linda and Daniel, before settling in Surrey in 1955 or 1956. When Marvin died in the 1990s and Daniel died in his teens, Linda, who was 7 or 8 when her mother disappeared, was left alone to wonder what really happened to her mother.
Huffington Post Canada reports that Linda Evans featured her mother on a July 2 episode of “Missing of the Month”, a series by the RCMP. Evans also knew that her mother had lived in Yukon, British Columbia, before Surrey, so she put an ad in their local newspaper as well.
Soon after, Evans received a call from a women saying she knew Johnson and believed that she was her mother as well.
“I’m still walking around in shock,” Evans said, according to NBC World News. “I thought she was dead because there’s been no contact. Nothing.”
Because of her efforts Evans has solved one of the RCMP’s oldest missing persons case.
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