Billy Leonard Taylor was 19 when he walked away from a treatment facility in St. Norbert, Manitoba, on the evening of October 4, 1996, before staff had completed processing him. At last sighting he wore a black leather jacket with a Canadian flag on the back, a blue sweatshirt reading St. Theresa Point, blue jeans, a beaded necklace and an earring in his right ear. He is described as an Indigenous man, five feet ten inches, slender, with long black hair, brown eyes and a birthmark on the right side of his neck. Known to family as Billy Baptiste or Billy Turtle, he has not had verified contact with anyone since that night.

There have been a handful of unconfirmed sightings over the years, but none established his whereabouts. The circumstances of his departure from the facility and what happened in the hours and days afterward remain unresolved and the investigation is open. Does anyone have information about Billy’s movements in October 1996 or recollections of seeing him after that date?