Tammy Leakey was a 12-year-old girl from Verdun who was abducted and murdered on March 12, 1981. That Thursday evening she was sent from a home on Ryde Street in Pointe-Saint-Charles to a nearby convenience store to buy milk and chocolate; the storekeeper said Tammy left the shop about 9:05 p.m. When she did not return, family members found her bag, the purchased items and her broken eyeglasses in a gutter near 2340 Ryde Street. A neighbor later told police they had seen a man in a beige trench coat force a screaming child into a small red car, and police treated Tammy’s disappearance as an abduction.

Less than two hours after Tammy left the store, a 73-year-old motorist, Ewing Tait, stopped beside Lindsay Street in Dorval and found Tammy lying near the curb. Her body was still warm; she was pronounced dead at Lachine General Hospital.

Montreal homicide investigators pursued leads, including the witness description of the man and the small red car, and police later re-examined the killing as part of a group of similar child cases. No publicly documented arrest, charge, trial or conviction has resulted and the man seen forcing a child into the red car has not been identified. Does anyone have information about Tammy, the red car seen near Ryde Street, or events in Pointe-Saint-Charles that night?