Rene Bernard Laflamme was 24 when he vanished after a short trip to Montreal in late May 1981. He had been living in Montreal and travelled there from his family’s home in Ottawa to collect a welfare cheque that would help finance a planned move to Vancouver to join his girlfriend. He was last seen in Montreal around May 29, 1981, and had arranged to meet a friend for a ride part of the way to British Columbia on May 31; he never returned to his mother’s house and did not meet that friend.

Rene was described as a 24-year-old Caucasian male, 5 feet 6 inches and about 150 pounds, with black straight hair recently permed, brown eyes and a scar on his right leg. Montreal and Ottawa police investigated but found few leads, and the case eventually went cold. In 2014 investigators obtained DNA samples from family members to help identify him if unidentified remains are ever recovered.

If anyone knew Rene, saw him in Montreal around May 29–31, 1981, or has information about his plans to travel west, please come forward with what you remember.