CANADA Canada - Yohanna Cyr, 18 mos, Montreal, 15 Aug 1978

[dotr]

Just noticed that someone had suggested YC on this uid thread, but she was ruled out as a match, hoping Yohanna is alive and well somewhere!
MO - MO - St Louis, BlkFem Child 54UFMO, 8-11, in abandoned bldg, Feb'83

 

[RookieInvestigator]

What a heartbreaking story...The boyfriend or someone he knew has to know what happened to her...

If she's alive, she may not realize she was taken from her birth mother...She was to young to remember...

Did they ever run the story in the WA major newspapers or news stations? If she was taken to the states, she or someone she knows may recognize her baby pic...

 

[CastlesBurning]

Bumping for Yohanna, as we approach the 42 anniversary of her disappearance.

 

[YouSaw]

Yohanna Cyr Service de police de la Ville de Montréal - SPVM

spvm.qc.ca

 

[spartanx]

Very sad. I don't think that man accidentally drowned her, and he seemed to do everything he could to get her away, so I think he had other intentions. It's very likely that he sold her...he told her mother that he had accidentally drowned and buried her so she would know that her daughter was gone forever. I'm sure that what really happened was not good at all... Also, I found it strange how this man willingly agreed to take care of her daughter while she was out of town. It seems that he insisted even though there was a very willing neighbor. I think he had a plan all along... that poor mother for over 40 years looking for her daughter and no trace...
either way
rest in peace

 

[dotr]

Search for clues in 36-year-old cold case turns up nothing Gallery

montrealgazette.com

 

[dotr]

Google translated.

Où est Yohanna?: le procès

Liliane Cyr avait saisi un paquet de photos de sa fille Yohanna et les regardait une à une, sans oser relever la tête. Elle était pétrifiée. Son amoureux, l'Américain Ronald Guay, venait de lui avouer qu'en son absence, l'enfant de 18 mois s'était noyée dans la baignoire. Dans l'esprit de Lilly...

www.lapresse.ca

Oct 7, 2016 Isabelle Hachey
''It was August 29, 1978. Lilly hadn't seen her daughter in two weeks. She had trusted Ronald, who had offered to take care of her for the duration of her dance contract at the bar of the Carmen Hotel, in Les Escoumins. She had believed him when he had told her that he had entrusted the child to his own mother. But this time, it was over. She wanted to flee at all costs. "But he had my plane ticket. I had to take him back, but I was starting to be afraid of him. »

Lilly felt herself slipping down a slippery slope. She realized that the man who had showered her with gifts, who had even talked to her about marriage, had other plans in mind for her. "I think he was trying to get me to work on the street. It was beginning to appear. Doubt crept into her heart: her lover might be a pimp.''
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''The police investigation had established that Ronald Guay was a false name, under which the accused had opened a bank account in Montreal. The 29-year-old American, originally from Washington, was actually called Aaron Lewis. "He came to Quebec once in a while. He still had his pool wand. He was trying to make money by playing pool," recalls Mario Morroni, one of the investigators in the case at the time.''

Screenshot La Presse
Aaron Lewis pretended to be a man named Ronald Guay.