A woman who went missing in 1980 lived outside of Canada the entire time and recently died, Ottawa police said Wednesday.
In a news release, police said the family of Dale Nancy Wyman was recently contacted by a third party who told them the news.
Police said Wyman went missing on July 16, 1980.
She was 22 years old and lived with her family on Washington Avenue in what was then the town of Vanier.
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Police said she told some family members that year that she was thinking of leaving home and on July 16 left the residence shortly before noon with a suitcase.
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Wyman hailed a cab and walked to the Voyager bus station on Catherine Street. Police said she did not tell her family members where she was going.
Investigators spoke with the only witness at the time — the cab driver — who said Wyman mentioned she didn’t know where she was going, possibly Toronto or Montreal, police said.
The taxi driver went into the bus station to get coffee after dropping her off and saw Wyman talking to two young adults, who have never been identified.
That was the last time anyone in Ottawa saw her.
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Last year, police released aging sketches of Wyman created by the Ontario Provincial Police.
Police also released a message from her sister, noting that her family “never stopped looking for her.”
“Dale misses her brother and her two sisters very much,” her sister Brenda Larsch said at the time.
“Our hearts hold an empty place for her and we pray and hope that someone can remember her in some way. Please help us resolve this and find some peace and closure.”
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Over time, investigators received information that Wyman may have been in Alberta and the Toronto area in the early 1990s.
But on Wednesday, police said a third party came across last year’s post and contacted Wyman’s family to tell them she had been living out of the country and had recently died.
Police did not say exactly where she lives.
“The family and Ottawa police would like to thank everyone for their assistance in closing this file,” Det. Linda Nethercott of the Ottawa Missing Persons Unit said.
“The family has been waiting over 40 years for this news…
“Unsolved cases are never closed and families are waiting to hear no matter how much time has passed.”
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