| 词条 | Disappearance of Joan Lawrence |
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}}Joan Lawrence (1921) was a 77-year-old Huntsville, Ontario woman who went missing in 1998 under suspicious circumstances.[1] Life and workLawrence was born in Ottawa. She was married and divorced, and worked as a poet and copyeditor. Around 1963, she moved to Huntsville, where she harboured abandoned litters of kittens, and eventually became known locally as the "Cat Lady."[2] In 1997, Lawrence began renting a garden shed from the Laans, a family of Seventh-day Adventists who owned and operated a number of unregulated retirement residences near Huntsville. The eight-by-ten shed had no insulation, running water, or electricity, and cost Lawrence over $700 a month. In November 1998, Lawrence began reporting financial and other abuse to the Ontario Provincial Police. Before the paperwork was complete, she disappeared. DisappearanceThe last person to see Lawrence alive was 57-year-old Allan Marshall, a Laan resident who lived on the same property as Lawrence. Marshall told police he heard gunshots and saw a backhoe being operated around the time of his neighbour's disappearance.[3] When police investigated, they found that three more of the Laans' tenants were also missing: 69-year-old Ralph Grant, 90-year-old John Semple, and 70-year-old John Crofts. Each senior, as well as several others, had been recruited from Toronto homeless shelters and brought to Muskoka. Police searched the property where Lawrence had been residing, but didn't find her body (though several of her cats had been shot). Members of the Laan family were eventually charged of defrauding Crofts, Semple, and Grant of their government benefits: cashing their cheques after they had gone missing. No murder charges have ever been laid. The Laans' retirement homes were shut down around 1999, and the family has never provided a sworn statement to police. In 2001, Walter Laan told the Toronto Sun that "Police were trying to sink us for these missing people," and adding the case was "really a dead issue now." Media coverageIn 2017, the disappearance of Joan Lawrence, John Semple, John Crofts, and Ralph Grant was featured in a magazine article in The Walrus, and a co-produced documentary by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’ In the documentary, David Laan, Lawrence's landlord, is asked about her disappearance, but says nothing and drives away.[4][5] In 2018, a follow-up documentary and magazine article focused on Kathrine, David and Walter's sister.[6] See also
References1. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/muskoka-mystery-missing-seniors/|title=Muskoka mystery|work=CBC News|access-date=2018-05-30|language=en}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lawrence, Joan}}2. ^1 {{Cite news|url=https://thewalrus.ca/missing-in-cottage-country/|title=Cottage Country Murder|work=The Walrus|access-date=2018-05-30|language=en-CA}} 3. ^{{Cite news|url=https://thewalrus.ca/muskoka-mystery-police-suspected-murder-in-the-case-of-missing-senior/|title=Muskoka Mystery: Police Suspected Murder in the Case of Missing Senior|work=The Walrus|access-date=2018-05-30|language=en-CA}} 4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://thewalrus.ca/cottage-country-murder-family-linked-to-disappearance-of-seniors-fights-release-of-police-documents/|title=Cottage Country Murder: Family Linked to Disappearance of Seniors Fights Release of Police Documents|work=The Walrus|access-date=2018-05-30|language=en-CA}} 5. ^{{Citation|last=The Fifth Estate|title=Murder in Cottage Country - The Fifth Estate|date=2017-09-15|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2BAieMXRxc&t=2s|accessdate=2018-05-30}} 6. ^{{Citation|last=The Fifth Estate|title=The Muskoka Murder Files - The Fifth Estate|date=2018-03-02|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FXYNLBOHyY&t=4s|accessdate=2018-05-30}} 2 : 1990s missing person cases|Missing person cases in Canada |
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