Police Finds Missing Surrey Women Alive in Yukon after 50 Years

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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In a surprising development, police has successfully located a woman allegedly missing from her home in Surrey, B.C., for almost more than 50 years, alive in Yukon. Missing person report of Lucy Johnson was filed on May 14, 1965, which claims that she was last been seen by a neighbour in September 1961 in the 10300 block of 145A Street in Surrey. Police investigation at the time suspected Johnson’s husband, Marvin Johnso, for her disappearance and considered laying charges against him, for which it excavated his yard looking for clues into her disappearance but found nothing. Marvin died in the late 1990s.

However, over the years investigators did not have any lead and hence only compared DNA samples of unidentified remains to the DNA of the missing person though a match was never found. Several weeks ago, Johnson’s disappearance was highlighted by Surrey RCMP as a cold case, i.e. a part of their “missing of the month” series. Consequently, police decided to make an appeal to general public which caught attention of Johnson’s daughter, Linda.

Thereafter, it was revealed that Johnson had originally lived in Alaska, including Skagway, Bennett, and Pennington, and also spent time in the Yukon community of Carcross before she moved south and married in 1954. A spokesperson for Surrey RCMP, Cpl. Bert Paquet, explained that “we received a phone call from a woman in the Yukon who called and claimed that she had seen the picture of the missing person in the free newspapers, and said the missing person we were looking for was actually her mother.”