Dorothy Dottie Cox, 44, vanished from Toronto in the winter of 1942; the exact timing is uncertain, estimated between December 1942 and April the following year. She was described as a white woman with hazel eyes, red or auburn hair, about five feet four inches tall, wearing false teeth and lacking earlobes. Reports differ about her last known movements: one account says she left to visit her mother in Cooksville and never returned, another places her at the Linsmore Hotel on Danforth Avenue, a venue she and her husband frequented. She was reportedly wearing a blue dress, a dark fur-trimmed coat, and a black Tam hat when she disappeared.

In May 1995 demolition workers found a woman’s remains entombed in concrete at the former Robertson Motors site on Danforth Avenue, a location Cox was known to frequent; forensic DNA testing later excluded her as the match. The Toronto Police Service still maintains a file on her disappearance, but the circumstances of what happened after she was last seen remain unknown. Did anyone in the Toronto area ever know Dorothy’s habits or the people she socialized with around Danforth Avenue?