I've watched the video and read what I could find about Danielle's case. There really isn't much.
They say the name of her boyfriend in the video but I cannot even find him on the net. Maybe I heard it wrong but, since he died not too long ago, I thought that he could be listed somewhere on online obituaries. Apparently, he's not. Or, as I said, I got his name wrong (or the reporter did).
I've worked on other Canadian cases in the past, and it's always the same thing. The only information we can usually get comes from the family, and often times they don't have much, and are not allowed to discuss what LE told them (that is, IF they told them anything at all). I don't exactly know how the whole police system is funded here but I feel like the missing people's cases are not among their priorities, probably because of the lack of resources. It's angering and sad, because there are probably lives that could have been saved, or families that could have known the truth about what happened to their loved one. I can't imagine spending the rest of my life wondering what happened to anyone that I love.
So I guess that, for now... I can't do much to help. I have the same questions as you all do, especially this one: did she get into the cab she had ordered?
Did she leave on foot, for some reason?
In the video, they say that the bar she was last seen at was very close to her place, but they don't say by how long... so I did a search on Google Maps with the address they show when they talk about her appartment. I assume the address is correct but I can't be 100 % sure (11033 Avenue de l'Archeveque) Then I did the direction thing as if she was leaving from Brasserie Bourget and going to her place on foot, which, according the Google maps, is between 1,4 and 1,7 km. Here is a picture of the thing.
There are so many possibilities here:
- She could've been abducted/killed by the cab driver.
- She could've chosen to go back home by foot, met someone she knew (or that she didn't know) while on her way and they did something bad to her.
- Maybe she got to her appartment safe and sound, and there, she had another fight with her boyfriend. If the two of them were into hard drugs, who knows how things could've turned out. So it could have been him.
- Maybe she was mad at her boyfriend and decided to leave but wasn't intending on going back to her appartment. If so, where was she heading to? Did she have a lover? Who was with her at the bar?
- Was someone waiting for her right outside the bar when she left?
I feel really puzzled about this one and also like we have nothing to work with. Oh yeah... and there's this mysterious postcard that was sent to Isabelle (Danielle's youngest sister) a few years after she disappeared. It was from a Micheline, and I think that it came from Italy. I tried reading what was written on it but all I could read was stuff like "It's really nice here. The landscape is beautiful" and stuff like that.... Nothing personal. And, no matter who sent that, what was their intention? I mean... Carole (Danielle's sister) said that her sister received a postcard from a "Micheline", so it means that Isabelle is the one it was addressed to and... Isabelle was only five years old in 1979. So, if she received it "a few years later", it means that she must have been what... ten years old max? It's very weird.
