CANADA Canada- Eileen Faye Williams ,19, Law Firm Secretary in Hamilton, Ontario, Vanished on visit to family in Montague, P.E.I. 6 August 1962

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''One of the last photos taken of Eileen Williams shows a well-dressed young woman on a sunny summer day. Williams was last seen in the area of the Wood Islands hill in Montague, walking out of town. (Brian Higgins/CBC)''

Memories are distant but precious. In this photograph taken in Hamilton, Ont., dated Oct. 1960, Eileen Williams poses with young nieces Trudy, left, and infant Cheryl. (Brian Higgins/CBC)

Aug 4 2022 Brian Higgins · Lengthy article, rbbm.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-eileen-faye-williams-missing-person-2022-1.6541086

''The family of a woman who went missing 60 years ago knows time is running out as they once again issue a plea for any one with information — no matter how old it may be — to please come forward.

Eileen Faye Williams was 19 years old when she went missing on Aug. 6, 1962, near Montague, P.E.I. ''

"It's certainly the oldest file I've ever worked on," said Cpl. Alexis Triantafillou of the RCMP Major Crimes Unit in Charlottetown. "I took the tip, I dug into the file … it's compelling because this person, Miss Eileen Williams, has yet to be found."

''Williams grew up in a house by the shore in Beach Point, with her parents and six other siblings. By age 17, she had moved to Hamilton, Ont., where she lived with her older sister, Eva.
Soon, she had a job as a secretary in a law firm.''

''Williams, a successful young woman, came home to P.E.I. regularly for summer holidays, including that fateful visit home in the summer of '62.
A photograph taken of her that summer — perhaps just days before she disappeared — shows a confident and well-dressed young woman on holiday, with a large wicker purse, and stylish sunglasses.''


''On the morning of Aug. 6 — a Monday — Williams had gone into Montague to mail postcards and run some errands. Her sister-in-law, Pearl, gave her a ride from Beach Point and dropped her off at the post office. Williams had told family she intended to get a clasp fixed on a broken necklace, and to catch up with some high school friends later in the day.

Williams had also told family she might stay the night with one of her girlfriends in Montague. When she didn't come home the next day, parents Elliott and Katie Jane did not see reason to be concerned — not yet at least — for their independent and now young adult daughter.''

''The last sighting of Eileen Williams was around 7 p.m., Aug. 6., 1962, on the Wood Islands hill. An RCMP officer in a cruiser reported that he passed her as he was headed into town, and she was walking south.''



A mass search of the area failed to turn up any sign of Eileen Williams or what happened to her. She had money in the bank and a plane ticket home. The family doubts she ran away. (Brian Higgins/CBC)

 

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Very lengthy, will enter info in separate posts..
August 2 2022

Missing person file still actively being investigated, sixty years later | Royal Canadian Mounted Police

A retiring RCMP member and an Island family are teaming up to renew an appeal to the public for information related to one of PEI's oldest cold cases.

Eileen Faye Williams was just 19 years old when she was last seen on August 6, 1962. The teenager was the youngest of seven siblings who grew up in Beach Point, PEI. Eileen had moved to Hamilton, Ontario some years earlier but she would come home every summer to visit her family. It was on one of these annual trips that she disappeared.

"Based on information gathered at the time, Eileen was considering going to a party in Montague on the night she disappeared," says Cpl. Alexis Triantafillou of the PEI RCMP Major Crime Unit. "She was last seen around 7 pm on August 6, 1962, just outside Montague on the road that leads towards Murray River and Beach Point."

When last seen, Eileen was wearing a green sweater, and black slacks with a white stripe. Extensive searches were carried out by RCMP and volunteers in the area in the weeks and months after she was last seen. Her return plane ticket to Hamilton was never used, and her bank account remained untouched for several years until it was turned over to her surviving relatives. Her disappearance is considered suspicious.

Sixty years later, Eileen's immediate family members are all deceased, but she still has many nieces, nephews and cousins who all remember her fondly. They are sharing photos of Eileen that have never been made public before in an effort to tell people who Eileen was, and to renew their appeal for help to find her.

"We know that time is not on our side, and that anyone who knows what happened to Eileen may not be around much longer," her family writes in a newly released statement. "We want people to know that Eileen was a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a cousin and a friend - not a day goes by that we don't think about her."

 

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Missing person file still actively being investigated, sixty years later | Royal Canadian Mounted Police

''Statement from the family of Eileen Faye Williams​

Aunt Eileen is still talked about most days among our family members, even sixty years after she was last seen. She was only 19 when she disappeared, but she had already accomplished so much. She finished high school, took stenography courses, and got a job working as a secretary in a law office in Hamilton, Ontario. She lived with her sister Eva there, and shared a room with two young nieces. We still remember her playing with us, tickling us, and taking us for treats and outings.
Eileen was the baby of the family, and she was so close with her siblings. Every summer, she would come home to Beach Point to visit family. She always brought presents for her nieces and nephews when she came home. We used to get so excited when we knew she was coming to visit, it was such a big deal to have an aunt who lived in Ontario. She was so popular, and pretty. She was outgoing, kind and fun-loving.
On the day Eileen was last seen, her sister-in-law Pearle drove her Montague. She dropped her off at the post office to mail post cards. Eileen also planned to do some errands and visit with some girlfriends from her high school days. She told Pearle that if she didn't stay over with those friends, she would return to Beach Point. Eileen was last seen around 7 p.m. leaving Montague presumably to hitchhike home to Beach Point.
When Eileen didn't return that night her family assumed she had stayed with her friends. However, when she didn't come home the next day, they became worried and began trying to locate her. The day after that they reported her as missing to the Montague RCMP who immediately began their search and investigation. The days, weeks, and months that followed were incredibly difficult on all of Eileen's family and friends. Her sister, Esther, was expecting a baby at the time and family members recall she was so upset they were concerned about her health as well.
It was a traumatic time for the whole community. There are many people here who still remember the search parties, more than 150 volunteers covering every square foot from Montague to Beach Point, the men out with sticks searching the roadside grass. There were extensive searches of the swampy area outside of Montague.
Eileen's mother passed away the following year - some say of a broken heart. Her father followed two years later – they never got the answers for what happened to their daughter.
Eileen's siblings have also all passed now, but there are many of her nieces and nephews and other family members who knew her, who loved her, and who still want answers. We want people to know that Eileen was a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a cousin and a friend - not a day goes by that we don't think about her.
Our hope is still that she will be found, and that we will have the answers her whole family has been waiting sixty years for.
We know that time is not on our side, and that anyone who knows what happened to Eileen may not be around much longer. If you have information that could help bring Eileen home, please contact police. If you were around at that time and know anything about what happened that night, even if you think it's really trivial, please contact police.
Please come forward so that her family can feel some closure. Please help bring Eileen home.''

 

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Missing person file still actively being investigated, sixty years later | Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Letter from niece of Eileen Faye Williams​

''When we were little growing up, we didn't have a lot of money, and I remember one Christmas - I would have been seven I think, so it was Christmas 1961, and this present came from Aunt Eileen (she was living in Ontario at that time). My mother was so excited to see the big box it was in, and she was so sure it was a new dress that she let me open it early so I could wear it to the Christmas concert at the school (one room schoolhouse in those days). Well, we opened it up only to find this beautiful pink quilted housecoat. We used to laugh about that in later years a lot. So much for the new dress for the concert. But it speaks to her generosity and kindness, considering she would have been only a teenager at the time.
I want to say a big thank you to the PEI RCMP for pursuing this. It means a lot to us that you are willing to spend your time working on this after all these years, trying to find answers.
Pauline Campbell, niece of Eileen Faye Williams
Any requests for interviews with the family of Eileen Faye Williams will be facilitated through the PEI RCMP Media Relations Officer.
Cpl. Alexis Triantafillou first read Eileen's file in 2019, and was immediately compelled.
"She was just a young girl, and she had so many family members that clearly still cared so deeply about her," he says. "It just stuck with me. She deserves to be found. She deserves to come home."
Now retiring himself after 27 years with the RCMP, Triantafillou is appealing to the public to come forward with any details that may help police locate Eileen, or to discover what happened to her when she disappeared.
"Because of the significant span of time we are working with, anyone who knew Eileen, or who may have been involved in her disappearance, has passed away or would be well into their senior years," said Triantafillou. "We are hoping that this new information will help jog memories, or maybe encourage people to come forward with information they haven't shared before. I haven't given up hope that she will be found, and neither has her family."
Anyone who may have information regarding the 1962 disappearance of Eileen Faye Williams is asked to contact the PEI RCMP Major Crime Unit at 902-566-7112. Information can also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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Contact information
Cpl. Alexis Triantafillou
PEI RCMP
902-566-7112

Date modified: 2022-08-02

 

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I think she’s likely dead by now or dying

 

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Search for closure in cold case leads to Roma

Three years of gathering information on one of PEI’s oldest cold cases has led to a search for answers in a well at Roma in Brudenell.

www.peicanada.com

• Josh Lewis 10 hrs ago
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• 'Three years of gathering information on one of PEI’s oldest cold cases has led to a search for answers in a well at Roma in Brudenell.
  Eileen Williams disappeared on August 6, 1962. The 19-year-old was last seen on the Wood Islands Hill in Montague.'
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• ''The two have kept the RCMP apprised of their findings, including a tip from a local woman, who wanted to remain anonymous. She said Eileen had been taken toward Brudenell - the opposite direction of the initial search from Montague to Eileen’s home community of Beach Point.
  Mr Somers and Mr Murphy feel the most obvious place she could be in that area is in a well on the Roma at Three Rivers site, 80 feet from the former Malcolm Shaw homestead which was built in 1865.''

 

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Although this case is over 62 years old, it is still possibly solvable.

A young girl going about a happy and normal day does not just suddenly decide to disappear and stay missing. Foul play was involved when Eileen went missing.

There is an old saying; "A Mountie always gets his man." Hopefully the RCMP will prove that again with this cold case.

 

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Missing person file still actively being investigated, sixty years later | Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Updated: June 10, 2022 rbbm

https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/news/an-island-cold-case-108773/#:~:text=Police%20say%20three%20options%20still,Wood%20Islands%20hill%20in%20Montague.

''Her aunt drove Eileen from her parents' house to the town of Montague on Aug. 6, 1962. Eileen told her aunt she was going to a jewelry store and visiting some friends.

If she didn't return home that night, she'd be staying in town for a few days. She was wearing rings and other pieces of jewelry and had $10 in cash.

At about 7 p.m., three people, including a young RCMP officer stationed in Montague, saw her hitchhiking near a marshy area outside of town.

She was about 30 kilometres from home and standing at a spot where the highway splits.

She could have been thumbing a ride back home or taking the other road to the ferry off the Island.

A massive search of the area between Montague and Beach Point failed to turn up a single clue on Eileen, a five-foot, four-inches tall woman, of slight build with dark brown hair and a fair complexion.''
None of the items she had been carrying at the time of her disappearance, a large brown handbag and a small transistor radio, were ever found.''

''Police even issued a search after a psychic said Eileen was buried in the swamp near the fork in the road.
"There was extensive searching done by the dog master who was here at the time and the conclusion came that there was nothing here,'' said Robinson.''