Helga Kaserer was 13 when she vanished from Toronto’s Roncesvalles area on the afternoon of December 29, 1960. A student at Fern Avenue Public School, she was last seen around 3:45 p.m. running along Harvard Avenue by a woman who knew her. At about 5:30 p.m. Helga placed a telephone call to a friend’s house; the friend wasn’t home and the woman who had seen her earlier answered.

She’s described as 5 feet 2 inches tall, 106 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes and a bleached stripe at the front of her hair. That day she wore a gray and beige checkered coat, a dark blue polka dot dress, a red cardigan and pointed-toe boots. Her failure to come home for dinner prompted police involvement and a search that stretched into decades; the family kept hoping she would return. In 2019 the Toronto Police Service Missing Persons Unit included Helga among cold cases it was promoting for new leads.

Does anyone remember Helga or have information about the Roncesvalles neighborhood that afternoon in 1960?