Leslie Dwayne Jones was 15 when he vanished from the Cape Croker area of Ontario in the autumn of 1993. Last seen around October 22, he had been staying with his 14-year-old cousin Shawn Jones and Shawn’s mother, Lynette, for about two weeks. Leslie was described as about 5 feet 6 inches tall, 150 pounds, with brown hair, brown eyes, a scar on his right cheek and braces on his teeth.

The disappearances began after Shawn and Leslie planned to attend a school dance in nearby Lion’s Head. That night Shawn’s grandmother’s car was taken without permission along with $500 intended for Shawn’s hockey registration; the car was found crashed in Lion’s Head the next morning and authorities reported evidence inside the vehicle suggesting the driver had been bleeding. Unconfirmed sightings followed as the cousins were reportedly seen hitchhiking toward Wiarton and, between October 26 and 28, possibly in Owen Sound—Leslie outside a Tim Hortons on 9th East Street and Shawn near the Pacific Hotel on Berford Street. Rumours later placed them in Toronto in 1996 and even in British Columbia, none substantiated.

The trail has grown cold and the families have continued to seek answers. Did anyone in Cape Croker, Lion’s Head, Wiarton or Owen Sound see Leslie or Shawn around those dates, or have information about where they might have gone after the car was found?