Identified! Canada - Toronto, Ont, LIVING white woman, Sep'12 - Linda Hegg

[DylansMom34]

"Aarti Pole ‏@aartipole
missing woman - now identified as Linda Hegg of Newark, NJ. #sl"

She has been identified as Linda Hegg!!!!

 

[DylansMom34]

http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/pdfs/25297.pdf

I guess we weren't really first in making the connection but now that a connection has been made, can Linda be moved to another category?

 

[deca]

Even more troubling if it is Linda (and it must be) is how did she cross the border into Canada, and did she have a passport that is now required to enter into Canada? If she did have a passport, what happened to it? If she didn't have a passport, how did she enter Canada? Does the Canadian border agency have any record of her entering Canada? Huge security issues...both for the countries involved, and for Linda. Clearly, she should not be living as independently as she has been living, for her own safety!

Maybe it has something to do with her privacy- maybe the border patrol can't reveal who comes in or out and the red tape is too complicated unless it is a criminal or missing child???

 

[DylansMom34]

http://thuvien.fav.cc/nh/lindastory.pdf

Websleuths (and me) are referenced on page 33)

 

[Bravo]

http://thuvien.fav.cc/nh/lindastory.pdf

Websleuths (and me) are referenced on page 33)

Your awesome :great:

 

[DylansMom34]

Thanks Bravo. Could you please tell my hubby?

 

[dotr]

http://thuvien.fav.cc/nh/lindastory.pdf

Websleuths (and me) are referenced on page 33)

Glad you found it!
"Forsyth posted this message on Missing People of Canada,
below Linda’s picture: “There is a Newark woman missing since
September. Just googled and found it. Her name is Linda Hegg.
Blond with blue eyes, age 55. It says Gold Alert issued in the write
up. Some similarities.”
Three hours later, Leona Landry of Toronto posted the policeissued
picture of Linda Hegg, which she found on the University of
Delaware website: “yaaa wow she looks like her a lot.”
Late that afternoon, Liz Duford Colclough, of Chippawa, Ont.,
posted that she had emailed both pictures to Newark police. It was
the first they had heard about Linda in Toronto. “I pray it is her,”
Colclough wrote.
The next day, a member of the websleuths.com forum
spotted the same connection, unaware others had already done
so. “This woman sort of resembles her. Although the height is
off a few inches,” wrote someone from Colorado who posted as
DylansMom34. She emailed the information to the Toronto Crime
Stoppers 222tips.com site.
“I found her in a very primitive way,” DylansMom34 added.
“I did a google for “missing blonde woman” and started scrolling
through recent news stories. Luckily they had just done an update
on November 6 so it wasn’t very far down.”

 

[~n/t~]

Linda arrived in Canada via bus in September and found herself in a Toronto shelter looking for assistance.

The woman has now been positively identified as Linda Hegg from New Jersey. She is a military veteran and was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1996 according to police.

Officials from Newark helped return Linda to Newark.

She is now “resting comfortable, in hospital in Newark, with family at her side,” police said in a press release.

New Jersey? Glad Linda has been identified. Still so many questions. How did she get across the border without ID? Mind boggling.

Congrats DylansMom!

http://www.globaltoronto.com/police...inda+hegg+from+delaware/6442774524/story.html

 

[Tucarra]

New Jersey? Glad Linda has been identified. Still so many questions. How did she get across the border without ID? Mind boggling.

Congrats DylansMom!

http://www.globaltoronto.com/police...inda+hegg+from+delaware/6442774524/story.html

Think we had the New Jersey / Delaware discussion in another thread too

Both are teeny states close together, with a city called Newark.

Newark NJ is proably better known due to the large airport.

If you're referring to either "Newark", please be forewarned that the folks in New Jersey pronounce it something akin to "Noork"...and the folks in Delaware get testy if one accidently pronounces it the NJ way....

In DE it's pronounced as though it two words, like "New Ark"...

O/T trivia...

Thanks a bunch DylansMom

 

[Cubby]

We knew this was coming, but glad to see it official! And to read Linda is reunited with her family.

Great job, Dylansmom!

 

[outofthedark]

Even more troubling if it is Linda (and it must be) is how did she cross the border into Canada, and did she have a passport that is now required to enter into Canada? If she did have a passport, what happened to it? If she didn't have a passport, how did she enter Canada? Does the Canadian border agency have any record of her entering Canada? Huge security issues...both for the countries involved, and for Linda. Clearly, she should not be living as independently as she has been living, for her own safety!

She does have a US passport, but it hadn't been renewed.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/12/18/toronto-linda.html

 

[Sillybilly]

Wonderful news !!

Congrats and Thanks to DylansMom for your sharp eye and efforts in making sure Linda was identified.

I'm sure Linda's father is grateful that there are people like you who care so deeply about these cases.

sb

 

[Sillybilly]

She does have a US passport, but it hadn't been renewed.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/12/18/toronto-linda.html

Yeah ... seems that someone here on the Canadian side was asleep at the wheel. I hope they can stay awake during their performance review

 

[~n/t~]

Yeah ... seems that someone here on the Canadian side was asleep at the wheel. I hope they can stay awake during their performance review

I guess she lost her passport before going to the shelter (??) otherwise they would have known who she was. Why wouldn't they have record of her entering the country? Also, why did she know all those places in Halifax? Wonder if that's where she crossed into before ending up in Toronto?

Fascinating.

 

[astridxx]

Congrats dylnasmom!!! I'm so glad this woman was brought home before the holidays -- and being alive is an added bonus!

 

[dotr]

New article with some more details about Linda.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/art...hegg-has-her-identity-back-but-not-her-memory

Linda Hegg has her identity back, but not her life.

It remains a mystery to her, lost with her memory, even as her family awaits her release from a Delaware hospital.

“It’s been a relief to know how many good people there are out there who take care of someone who needs help,” said Hegg’s mother, Martha Wilson, referring to the months her missing daughter spent in Toronto suffering from amnesia. “I’m very grateful.”

Toronto police confirmed on Tuesday that the woman previously known only as Linda was indeed Linda Hegg, 56, of Newark, Del. She travelled to Canada by bus on Sept. 3, entering through the Peace Bridge crossing at Fort Erie with an expired U.S. passport"

 

[DylansMom34]

Wow, Linda has had quite an interesting and also troubled life. I'm glad she is back with her family. I sure hope they have a better system in place to keep her safe.

I am so glad she's back with her family in time for the holidays.

 

[dotr]

Depending on the source , other sleuths (besides DM34) have been credited with noticing Linda, just goes to show what a collection of different minds and eyes can do!

http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/12/18/mystery-woman-who-turned-up-at-shelter-with-amnesia-identified/

 

[~n/t~]

Nice picture of Linda

Woman with amnesia at Toronto shelter identified as missing Delaware resident

Hegg asked the staff at her Delaware facility where she had been. "They told her, 'Well, you know, Linda, you were in Canada,' and she paused and she said, 'I like Canada. I'd like to visit there again,'" Caracciolo said, according to Canadian Press. "I don't think she knew where she was."

Police determined that the mystery woman entered Canada via bus on Sept. 3 and walked into a downtown Toronto shelter on Sept. 5. The neatly dressed woman didn’t have any identification and couldn’t tell authorities anything about her history, except that her first name was Linda. All she had on her was a tote bag filled with scraps of paper, a bottle of water, a map of Toronto bus routes and a wallet with a Canadian $20 bill, The Star reported.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...-identified-as-missing-delaware-resident?lite