Donald Nelson Devinney was 16 when he disappeared from Wolcott, Wayne County, New York, on the evening of April 18, 1975. He was living with foster parents on Younglove Road and had been fishing with his stepbrother at the Red Lake inlet off Larkin Road. Around 7:00 p.m. Donald took a seventeen-foot yellow fiberglass canoe out onto the water and was last seen at about 7:30 p.m. heading out onto Lake Ontario.

Sometime after he went out, the canoe was observed floating unoccupied. Three days later the empty canoe washed ashore in Jefferson County. The water temperature on the day of his disappearance was 39 degrees and the canoe had no life jackets or survival gear. An extensive search failed to locate his body, and authorities have presumed he drowned; his case is classified as lost or injured missing. The recovery of the empty canoe is the last confirmed trace of Donald.

Did anyone in the Wolcott or Jefferson County area see activity on Lake Ontario that evening or afterward that could help explain what happened to Donald?