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Wilhelmina Bruce Wanner, known as Winnie, was 52 when she vanished from her home at 4624 - 45 Street in Red Deer, Alberta on January 3, 1989. An Indigenous woman of petite build, she was 5 feet 1 inch and about 97 pounds. At the time of her disappearance she may have been wearing a brushed denim jean jacket, running shoes, a 16-inch gold chain with an Aquarius symbol, and small clustered pearl earrings with gold trim.

Police entered her home after she was reported missing and found blood, hair, and a kitchen knife in the bathroom. The RCMP conducted exhaustive searches of the surrounding acreage about eight kilometers west of Red Deer, including the landfill, oil dump sites, flare pits, parks, and isolated roads, and even consulted psychics; no trace of Winnie was found. Her estranged husband, Jacob Wanner, was arrested and charged with her murder and was tried in 1991; the jury acquitted him. He died in 2010 and the disappearance remains unsolved with the RCMP treating the file as open.

Does anyone living in the Red Deer area in 1989 remember unusual activity near 4624 - 45 Street or anything about Winnie in the weeks before she disappeared?