Marion Joan McDowell, 17, disappeared from Scarborough, Ontario in the evening of what is believed to be December 6, 1953, after a date with her 19-year-old boyfriend, Jimmy Wilson. The couple had driven to a secluded lovers’ lane when a masked man about 5 feet 8 inches with a narrow face and a handgun approached. He robbed Wilson of ten dollars and struck him on the head, rendering him partly unconscious.

Wilson later remembered Marion’s body across him in the back of his 1942 Plymouth coupe, then waking in a vacant fenced lot where he saw someone close the trunk of another car before it drove away. Wilson sustained head injuries requiring seventeen stitches; police found his discarded wallet and a bar of soap in the lot and Marion’s headscarf with cuts in the car. Two different blood types, A and O, were recorded in the vehicle. A large search of ponds, wells and rural properties turned up no trace of Marion. Her family was deeply affected; her mother reportedly suffered a nervous breakdown and her brother later joined the police force.

No trace of Marion has ever been found. If anyone knew Marion, was in Scarborough that night, or has information about the masked man or the other vehicle, please come forward.