Janice Louise Howe, 35, left her parents’ home in the Fort Garry area of Winnipeg on the evening of Friday, August 28, 1992, driving her father’s blue 1985 Oldsmobile Ciera. She told her parents she would be back after taking the car for a drive to unwind. At the time she was last seen she was about 5 feet 3 inches, 140 pounds, a Caucasian woman with blue eyes and shoulder-length blonde or brown hair, wearing a light-colored sweater or jacket, a pink t-shirt with a South Fork Restaurant logo, black loafer-style shoes and carrying a black leather shoulder purse. No one reported seeing her after she left.

The vehicle was found abandoned at about 10:10 a.m. the next morning, Saturday, August 29, 1992, on the side of the road 19 miles east of Kenora, Ontario. Investigators saw no immediate signs of an assault in the car, but the rear floor mats and a 4 feet by 8 feet tarp were missing from the trunk. Janice’s father had filled the tank and recorded the mileage before she left, and police determined the car had been driven nearly 550 kilometres before it was abandoned.

Janice’s disappearance remains unsolved and her family continues to have unanswered questions about where she went after leaving home. Did anyone in the area east of Kenora see Janice or that Oldsmobile on the night of August 28 or the morning of August 29?