Patricia Janice Salamandyk was 16 when she was last seen on June 1, 1972, at the school gates in Spruce Grove, Alberta. That morning she told her younger sister she wouldn’t attend classes and planned to go to nearby Edmonton; she never returned and that was the last confirmed sighting. Patricia was a Grade 9 student from a local dairy farm, described as happy and well adjusted. She was last wearing a brown sweater, blue jeans and a belt, stood 5 feet 7 inches with a thin build, had shoulder-length auburn hair, brown eyes and a jagged scar on her left knee.

Investigators later ruled out theories that she left with older friends or ran away to join a commune. Nothing of importance was taken, and official records show no use of her social insurance number, no employment, marriage or travel records and no legal declaration of death. The RCMP renewed work on the file in 2015, re-interviewing witnesses, collecting DNA and issuing an age-progressed sketch.

Did anyone in Spruce Grove or Edmonton remember seeing Patricia around June 1, 1972, or have information that could help clarify where she went?