CANADA Robert Heintz, 12, Larder Lake ON, December 1, 1982

[Jaanniss]

National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains
The Doe Network

Robert, a 12 year old Cree youth, was a child in care and lived in a boy's group home in Kearns, ON housed in the old Kearns Public School building. He attended the Public School in nearby Larder Lake, ON. On Dec 1, 1982 he was last seen during the lunch hour, walking into the bush behind the school with a couple of friends.He has never been seen since. He was wearing a jean jacket and running shoes and the temperature would have been nippy and the night freezing. There are rumours that his friends emerged from the bush the following day and that there had been an argument among them over the size of their fire and Robert had walked off in the bush by himself. There are questions about the search prior to reporting Robert missing. He has family that still search for him.

 

[Jaanniss]

Robert Carlton Heintz has been missing for 38 years. He was 12 years old when he walked into the bush behind Larder Lake Public School. LE have not reported suspicion of foul play, or possible sightings. His disappearance was included in the 2015 OPP report ' Missing and Unsolved Murdered Indigenous People' and this was noted in in the Sault Ste. Marie local news. He is among the youngest of 40 missing indigenous males in Ontario - an 11 and 12 year boy went missing from a Residential School on Oct 5 1956 and were reported missing November 10, 1956. The circumstances of Robert's missing is explained as having gone into the bush behind the school during the lunch hour, he become separated from his friends.
Without access to documentation...
Dec 1/82 Robert traveled from the boy's group home in Kearns, ON to Larder Lake Public School at 69 4th Ave.
Dec 1/82 Robert was seen walking into the bush behind the school during the lunch hour with 2 friends.
Dec 2/86 two boys were found on Highway # 624 and were driven into Larder Lake, described as looking disturbed, scared and explained there had been an argument among them over the size of their fire and Robert walked off in the bush alone. Staff from the group home are said to have searched for a day and some. The date he was reported missing to the Kirkland Lake OPP detachment has not been found in the public domain.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Bumping up for Robert. I don't feel his case had the attention it deserved - someone should have been held responsible, too. My opinions.

Also were the children he was with ever reinterviewed as adults?

International Missing Persons Wiki:
Robert Heintz

 

[bluejeanbaby]

I just submitted Robert Heintz as a potential match for a UID found in Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1992. Speculated to be between 11-16 years old when he died in the 1980's/1990's he was wearing white running shoes and jeans, on top of that while I see a discrepancy in the height department, the reconstruction of The UID compared to the MP is extremely similar in the forehead, as well as the ovular face and the sharp, prominent nose.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I just submitted Robert Heintz as a potential match for a UID found in Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1992. Speculated to be between 11-16 years old when he died in the 1980's/1990's he was wearing white running shoes and jeans, on top of that while I see a discrepancy in the height department, the reconstruction of The UID compared to the MP is extremely similar in the forehead, as well as the ovular face and the sharp, prominent nose.

Thanks for submitting. If they haven't looked at Robert for this UID, they should have.
Doe Network even says he may have come from Canada. Please let us know if you hear back.

 

[bluejeanbaby]

Thanks for submitting. If they haven't looked at Robert for this UID, they should have.
Doe Network even says he may have come from Canada. Please let us know if you hear back.

Do you happen to know if there's DNA or Dentals for Robert? There's both for the Doe that I suggested, I'm just hoping there is for Robert to help solidify a potential match!

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Do you happen to know if there's DNA or Dentals for Robert? There's both for the Doe that I suggested, I'm just hoping there is for Robert to help solidify a potential match!

No, unfortunately the only place I know to find that information is Doe Network, and his page doesn't say either way.

 

[annpats]

He walked into the bush?? Do you mean like 'the bush' in Australia...a vast expanse of countryside? A wilderness, but in Canada?

 

[spartanx]

Although many may laugh, I have always believed that when they suddenly disappear like that, it is because they went through a door or portal to another dimension... because in an area where there is no one else there is no one hiding in the bushes or anything like that, it is because They are no longer in this dimension or rightly someone was waiting for him to kidnap him or perhaps the same schoolmates played a dirty game on him...
whatever it is rest in peace

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I just submitted Robert Heintz as a potential match for a UID found in Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1992. Speculated to be between 11-16 years old when he died in the 1980's/1990's he was wearing white running shoes and jeans, on top of that while I see a discrepancy in the height department, the reconstruction of The UID compared to the MP is extremely similar in the forehead, as well as the ovular face and the sharp, prominent nose.

This is the mentioned UID:

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

I wonder if he has been excluded for this UID, although he was not publicly listed as of Feb. 2024 (according to the thread for this UID)...