CANADA JANETTE BRUNET, 27, Ottawa, Ontario, 30 January 1988

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JANETTE BRUNET

MISSING

JANETTE BRUNET: Vanished Jan. 31, 1988

411: On Jan. 30, 1988, Brunet, 27, left her young daughter with a babysitter and went to a local Ottawa pub, Ozzie’s Eatery. Around 1:20 a.m., the owner saw her talking to a man on the sidewalk outside the bar. When she was last seen, she was hitchhiking north on Holland Ave. towards Tunney’s Pasture. The unknown man was walking beside her. She has never been seen again. The next day a pub employee found her heart-shaped pendant with a broken clasp in the parking lot.

Cops say it appeared she had no plans to run off. She left $600 in a bank account and another $788 stashed in her linen closet. She had also signed a new lease on her apartment and reportedly lived for her daughter.

She is described as 5-foot-8, 115 pounds, with dark blonde hair, green eyes, a light complexion and a slender build.

CONTACT: If you have any information contact the Ottawa-Carleton Police Service, the RCMP or Crime Stoppers.

 

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Janette Brunet



Missing since: January 31, 1988
Missing from: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Classification: Endangered Missing

Vital Statistics:

• • Date Of Birth: December 31, 1960
  • Age at Time of Disappearance: 27 years old
  • Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'8"; 115 lbs.
  • Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Dark blond hair; green eyes. Light complexion and a very slender build.

Circumstances of Disappearance:
On the night of January 30, 1988, the single mother, left her daughter with a babysitter and went to the pub Ozzie's Eatery

At about 01:20 a.m. on January 31, the bar owner saw Brunet talking to a man on the sidewalk outside the bar. She was last seen hitchhiking north on Holland toward Tunney's Pasture, with the man walking beside her.
The next day, an employee found her heart-shaped pendant, with a broken clasp, in a parking lot behind the bar.

Evidence uncovered after she disappeared suggests she had no plans to run off. Family and friends said she lived for her daughter and would never leave her. She also left $600 in a bank account.

Days after she disappeared, $788 in cash was found in her linen closet. The day before she vanished, Brunet signed a new lease on her apartment.

Investigators:
Ottawa Police Service – Missing Persons Unit
613-236-1222 Ext. 2355 or Email Missingpersons@ottawapolice.ca

CPIC Number:
88-2334

NCIC Number:
M-671813983
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

The Doe Network: Case File 721DFON

 

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Lengthy, interesting article. rbbm.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Searching for Shafiq Visram
BY Ron Corbett October 13, 2016
''Reynolds has been with the Ottawa police for 20 years. If you were casting the female lead in a new television cop show, you might end up with someone like her — statuesque, no-nonsense. A cop who says most missing persons cases are routine, solved within days, if not hours. Anything that stays on the board more than a week is an anomaly, a case that gets your attention.

Houle tells me he once hunted a man for several months, finally tracking him down in Montreal, only to find the man was living as a woman and hoping to have a sex-change operation. He had already started the hormone treatments.

“He was quite aware of what he was doing and quite comfortable with his decision,” he remembers. “I would have to say that case had a happy ending, which is rare for a long-term case.”
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'' A missing person case just might be the pinnacle of sleuthing for a cop. Unsolved murders can have myriad solutions, it’s true, but certain things are fixed. The victim is dead. Someone, or perhaps more than one person, made that happen. An unsolved missing person case does not even have this flimsy strand of certainty — rather, it is a world of infinite possibilities.''

''Three other women went missing in Ottawa in the winter of 1988 — Janette Brunet, Lisa Somerton, and Josee Boutin — not all at once, but within a month of each other, and the grouping is close enough to seem peculiar. I ask McRae about it, and she says she has noticed the pattern as well.


“There is no connection that I have found,” she says. “These cases are all mysteries. You can notice patterns, you can have hunches, but until the case is cleared, it’s all a guess.”

 

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I don't think she escaped if she cared to leave her baby with a babysitter... that unknown man knows what happened to her... beautiful young woman... her little girl is the one who misses her the most... I hope that one day we will know that passed...
either way
rest in peace