Brad Hunter
Published Sep 14, 2023 rbbm
For the broken-hearted, hope dies hard. Any strand, no matter how tentative or precarious, is grasped as if one's life depended on it.
torontosun.com
''The 13-year-old sports enthusiast vanished on Sept. 14, 1963. Thursday marked the 60th anniversary.
Investigators are now pursuing a previously unexplored avenue: That Noreen left of her own accord and may not have been abducted.
“It is believed that Noreen went to Oshawa where she stayed for two weeks. She then travelled to Whitby where she stayed for approximately three weeks,” Durham Regional Police said in a statement.
“Noreen stayed in Whitby with a couple named Mary and Gary Benson. She and another girl then crossed Lake Ontario in a 40-foot cabin cruiser called the ‘Mary Bell’ owned by a man named ‘Franko.'”
Detectives believe the boat travelled from Oshawa across Lake Ontario to Rochester, N.Y.
“It is believed that Noreen settled into a motel or cabin in Syracuse, N.Y. Information was received that she was pregnant at that time, and she later gave birth to a baby boy.”
Investigators said they had identified a number of phone numbers of interest in the decades-long probe. The owners of these phone numbers have not been identified.
Four of the numbers are in Toronto while the last one is a Peterborough number. They are: 781-1373, 925-3654, 745-9145, 925-3654, and 781-1373. If any of these phone numbers are familiar to you, contact police.