The mosquitoes are out of control in Winnipeg this year. I’ve never seen them this bad. City workers sprayed every area of the City, but due to all the rain we’ve had, I couldn’t go outside tonight.
Here is a summary of Jeffrey Boucher’s case, Whitby, Ontario.
Jeffrey was a 52-year-old high school teacher who taught at the same school for twenty some years. He was also a gifted athlete who loved to ski, cycle, and travel abroad with his family. Jeff and his wife, who is also a teacher, had been happily married for over twenty years and they had 2 teenage daughters. The eldest daughter was attending university somewhere else and was not living at home when her father disappeared, although he spoke with her on the phone the day before.
Jeff and his youngest daughter taught ski lessons at a resort on the weekends. Jeffrey was planning to take a group of students on a ski trip and he left the money he collected from them in a file cabinet in his classroom. When the drawer to the filing cabinet jammed, Jeffrey contacted the janitor, who came and opened it when Jeff was out of the classroom. For safe keeping, the janitor took the money to the Office. This incident happened on Friday, Jan 10th. The principal spoke to Jeffrey before he left for the weekend and told him she wanted to meet with him and a union official next week to discuss the school’s protocol for keeping money collected from students for extracurricular activities. She told him she would notify him by email when the day and time of the meeting was set and “not to worry”. Early Saturday morning, Jeff and his daughter left home for the ski hill and spent the evening with his parents who owned a villa nearby. In the evening, Jeffrey prepared exams for his students on his school’s computer and on Sunday, after a full weekend of skiing, he and his daughter returned home in time for supper. After dinner, Jeff and his wife looked at houses they were interested in buying on his wife’s computer and Jeff asked her to email them to him. Jeffrey had the computer he used at school and over the weekend in his house. After he disappeared, an email the principal sent to Jeffrey on the weekend about the upcoming meeting was found unopened on his computer. After looking at houses with his wife, Jeffrey told his wife and daughter that he was going to go for a jog which he normally did not do after a weekend of skiing. When he didn’t return home by 10 pm, his daughter went to look for him in the van, and found him running up their street. I don’t think he told them where he went. Every evening, Jeff and his wife sat in the hot tub together before going to bed, but on this particular night, because Jeffrey was gone so long, his wife went to bed. When Jeffrey joined her, he told her it was a beautiful evening and after his wife told him she needed her sleep, they went to sleep. As per usual, Jeffrey got up at 6 am and went for a run while his wife stayed sleeping in their bed, but this time, he didn’t return. He had lain out the clothes and shoes he planned to wear to school and his breakfast. At 8 am, his wife called LE because Jeffrey had never missed a day of work.
Underwater robots searched Lake Ontario shortly after he went missing but they didn’t find him. On January 20th, police admitted they were “stumped”, adding that “the missing teacher appears to have vanished”. On March 14, a woman walking near Heydenshore Pavilion, along the shore of Lake Ontario, found a shoe and contacted police. Durham Regional Police believed the shoe could have belonged to Boucher.
A second shoe, also believed to belong to Boucher, was found at around 11 a.m. Saturday on the shoreline near the Heydenshore Pavilion. On Saturday, March 28, 2014, a passerby discovered a body on the shoreline of Lake Ontario while walking near Thickson Road South and Crystal Beach Boulevard at around 2:20 p.m. Police said they believe the body is that of 52-year-old Boucher. According to Jeffrey’s wife, he was a man who avoided confrontations.
