Payge Woodard Published
Dec 29, 2025 lengthy.
National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains database is adding more New Brunswick cases into its database of 158 NB files.
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''Living without answers isn’t easy for the loved ones left behind.
''Mandy Metallic has spent more than a decade travelling from her home in Listuguj First Nation to search a wooded area in Sackville where her son, Chris Metallic, was last seen after leaving a house party in November 2012''.
Chris was in his third year at Mount Allison University when his mother received a call from his brother, who was also attending the school, telling her Chris was missing.
“He said everyone had been looking for him all day after he didn’t come home the night before,” she said.
When she wasn’t able to get in touch with any police in the area, Metallic got in her car around midnight and began the four-hour trip from Quebec to the university town.
In Sackville, police told her they received a call about a young man walking in the woods. The flip-flops her son was wearing were later found in the area, near Haute-Aboujagane Road.
Metallic said his footprints were also found on the road. She described the stride of the prints as wide, as if he were taking big steps.
“I don’t know if he was running, but there were no other footprints, no tire tracks. Nothing,” she said.
Metallic said she met with the witness who called the police, who told her Chris was looking down while walking and holding driveway markers. She said the markers have never been found.
While she’s found other items in the area, including a hoodie string, Metallic said the shoes were the last piece of evidence found that was confirmed to belong to her son.
She said the area wasn’t on her son’s way home, and she has no idea why he would have been there.
“It doesn’t make any sense at all,” she said. “I have a lot of ‘what ifs’ in my head.”