On July 3, 1960, 21-month-old Edna Bette-jean Masters, known as Bette-Jean, vanished from a friend’s home in the logging community of Red Lake, British Columbia. She was last seen wearing a green bonnet with a white frill, a pink short-sleeved t-shirt and faded pink overalls. She had fine curly blonde hair, blue eyes and a small oval burn scar on her left arm between elbow and shoulder.

An immediate and extensive search followed, involving police, volunteers, an airplane and a police dog. Searchers covered the yard where she was last seen, nearby forests, ponds and roadways but found no tracks, clothing or other clues. Witnesses reported a rust-colored 1959 Chevrolet with Alberta plates, featuring distinctive cat eye or bat wing taillights, occupied by a man and a woman in their late twenties; the couple was never identified and their role, if any, remains unknown. Police say there has never been evidence proving Bette-Jean is deceased and the case remains open.

If anyone knew Bette-Jean, the family, or remembers that 1959 Chevrolet in the Red Lake area in July 1960, please come forward with information.