Joel Aaron Judd was 27 when he vanished from the Slave Lake area of Alberta in the early hours of December 28, 2019. He was last seen near Bayer Road after leaving a house party on Whitetail Way at about 3:00 a.m. that morning. At the time he went missing he was described as an Indigenous male, about 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 9 inches tall, medium to heavy build (160–205 pounds), with black hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a dark grey coat, a grey t-shirt, light blue jeans, a grey baseball cap with an orange logo, and black cowboy boots.

Joel had been at a local bar in Slave Lake and then went to the party; attendees say he called his uncle from the event and later left the residence in the early morning and was not seen again. RCMP used banking records to trace his movements and identify people he was with; police later recovered his jacket at the party location. Searches of the property and surrounding areas found no sign of him, and his bank account hasn’t been used since that day. His family reported him missing to the RCMP on January 3, 2020, and continue to seek answers and hope for information that could explain what happened after he left the party.

If anyone was in the Slave Lake area on December 27–28, 2019, or knew Joel’s movements or companions that night, can you share what you remember?