Adjutor Lapointe was 22 when he left his Chicoutimi, Québec residence in the late afternoon of May 12, 1980. He was last seen getting into his burgundy Plymouth Valiant with an acquaintance named Vital; a friend later recalled Adjutor saying he was going with Vital to transport some armoires and that Vital didn’t want company because there wouldn’t be room in the car. His family reported him missing on May 16, 1980.

The Valiant turned up later in Vital Lemire’s possession; Lemire had been driving it for nearly two weeks and had altered its appearance by removing the vinyl roof and repairing a dent. Investigators came to suspect foul play, and in 2011 Lemire—by then a convicted dangerous offender—confessed in custody to killing Adjutor. Searches by the Sûreté du Québec on multiple occasions failed to locate remains, and the case remains officially unsolved.

Volunteer groups have since returned to search areas in the Saguenay–Lac‑Saint‑Jean region using newer techniques, giving family faint hope after decades of uncertainty. Did anyone in Chicoutimi in May 1980 see Adjutor’s burgundy Plymouth Valiant or know where he and Vital were headed that evening?