This is a very interesting case, and thanks for bringing it here. (Also, congrats on your 3000th post, above!)
In an interview with The Expositor in 2008, Larry Hammond said the pain of Mary's loss still rolls over him when he is alone. He said her disappearance shattered him and tore his spirit away.
Years after Mary vanished, Larry finally resumed the strength to remarry, having filed for divorce instead of wading through the legal morass of having Mary legally declared dead.
Still, he would occasionally retreat to the past, pull out a well-worn wedding album and leaf through the pages of a past life.
“I just hope one day the truth will be found and we can give her a decent burial. I just want her put to rest,” he said.
For many years, decades actually, two cardboard boxes of evidence in the Mary Hammond case have perched high on the shelves of the city police department evidence room. They contain the physical evidence, reports and witness statements gathered during the long investigation.
The bold block letters in black marker spelling out, “Unsolved. Mary Hammond,” are blunt and, in a way, very sad.
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2012/06/21/city-police-reopen-investigation-into-1983-disappearance-of-mary-hammond
anyone have access to property records to see who owned that residence in 1983? I realize it could've been a tenant or someone else living there or even a visitor
I found the house on google streetview - it's big and quite conceivable that it was rented out or even was a rooming house in 1983
it's in a bit of a commercial area too, I noticed, with the John Howard Society and many businesses nearby
Mary is mentioned in this article.
Robert Commu went missing 17 years ago
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2013/03/31/robert-commu-went-missing-17-years-ago
Dotr, do you know if the UID at Bowmanville has been sent in as a possible match for Mary?http://doenetwork.org/cases/368dfon.html
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"Mary Emma Hammond
Missing since September 8, 1983 from Brantford, Ontario Canada
Classification: Involuntary
Vital Statistics
Date Of Birth: August 1, 1958
Age at Time of Disappearance: 25 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'10; 140 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Reddish brown, straight hair; brown eyes. She has a fair complexion. Her maiden name is "Bisenthal."
Marks, Scars: Hammond has a mole on her chin.
Clothing: Hammond was last seen wearing a blue, mauve and red lumber jacket; jeans; a yellow t-shirt; and white Adidas running shoes with a silver stripe.
Circumstances of Disappearance
Hammond left her home for work at approximately 3:30 on September 8, 1983 in Brantford, Ontario Canada. She walked from her family's Elgin Street residence to the former Buns Master Bakery on Morton Avenue, where she was employed. Hammond took Park Road North (now called the Wayne Gretzky Parkway) and passed the Massey-Ferguson Factory. She then cut across a field toward the back of the Buns Master Bakery building.
One of Hammond's coworkers phoned her husband at approximately 4:00, inquiring as to why she had not reported to work. The police were summoned and Hammond's footprints were followed to the back of the bakery, then vanished. Authorities discovered items from her lunch at the scene, including a cup, dish, and a partially eaten apple. One of Hammond's socks was recovered and a small amount of blood was seen on the ground.
A brown, 1974 - 1978 pickup truck, possibly a Ford, was seen near the back of the bakery at the time of Hammond's disappearance. The vehicle was last seen driving through the company's rear parking lot. It is described as an older-model brown truck which was possibly a Ford. The vehicle's bumpers were painted and it had round headlights. The truck has never been located".