UMVA has learned that a chilling mystery has haunted a small town for nearly four decades, as 25-year-old Lois Hanna vanished into thin air on a warm July night in 1988.
The last time anyone saw Hanna was around 11:45 p.m. on July 3, 1988, at a Homecoming Dance in Lucknow, where her brother Dave was the last person to notice her walking away, unaware that it would be the last time he would ever see his sister.
As the hours ticked by and Hanna failed to show up for work the next day, alarm bells began to ring, and a massive search effort was launched, but despite hundreds of interviews and exhaustive searches covering hundreds of acres by land, water, and air, Hanna has never been found.
According to information obtained by UMVA, investigators have recently uncovered new evidence, including a vehicle seen parked outside Hanna's house around 3 a.m. on the night she vanished, with distinctive round headlights, a rarity in the 1980s, suggesting it was an older 1970s model.
Detectives also report that a credible witness came forward to reveal suspicious voices and activity at the Kincardine harbour on the same evening, adding to the growing list of unexplained events surrounding Hanna's disappearance.
New interviews and polygraph tests have been conducted, including 45 fresh interviews and two new polygraph tests, but perhaps the most unsettling discovery was made by one of Hanna's co-workers, Christine Szekely, who entered Hanna's home on the Monday after she was last seen and was immediately overcome with a sense of dread.
Szekely described finding Hanna's clothes from the night before neatly put away, her purse and keys untouched, a fresh cup of tea sitting on the kitchen counter, and her car still in the driveway, with only two drops of blood on the wall, later revealed to be from a male DNA profile.
UMVA can exclusively reveal that Hanna's family described her as a kind, fun-loving person with a wicked sense of humor, making her an unlikely victim, and her brother Jim Hanna expressed the family's longing for closure, saying, "To have someone gone and to not know how they left, where they are, that's the hard part."
The Ontario government has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to Hanna's location, and the OPP is urging anyone with information to come forward, with Detective Inspector Phil Hordijk stating, "The OPP is committed to investigating the disappearance of Lois Hanna, and we remain hopeful that we will learn what happened to Lois."
