Theodore Murray Milde was 37 when he was last seen in Lethbridge, Alberta on February 9, 1993. Nine days later a friend found a handwritten note and Theodore’s keys in his mailbox; the note gave the location of his vehicle and distributed some of his belongings to that friend. Police located the car on 28th Street North, just outside the city limits, and found a single set of footprints in the snow leading from the road into the coulees.

A large-scale search of the rugged terrain followed, with police and search and rescue teams combing the area for weeks, but no trace of Theodore was ever found. Several other notes were found inside his home, and investigators have treated disappearance, voluntary disappearance, and suicide as possibilities; because his remains were never located, the case remains classified as a missing person.

The Lethbridge Regional Police Service has kept the investigation open and periodically issued requests for information. Did anyone in the area around February 1993 see Theodore’s vehicle on 28th Street North or notice activity in the coulees that winter?