An organized volunteer grid search is planned after several tips in the missing person case of Kincardine's Lois Hanna focused on an area north of Lucknow.
Nick Oldrieve of the group Please Bring Me Home said a man who lived north of Lucknow has come forward saying he heard something in the middle of the night she disappeared, in July 1988, following the Lucknow Homecoming.
"He awoke to a loud, what he believed was a scream that came from outside his bedroom window. He quickly looked around his house and made sure his family was ok, and then he went outside to investigate. He drove around, he took a flashlight, but he didn't see anything," he said. "A year later, one of this man's sons was back there with his friends, and he found a bra. He was just a younger boy at the time. He picked it up and then he just kind of flung it back down and didn't think anything of it."
He said the attention that has been given to the case recently prompted the family to come forward.
Oldrieve said that same night, a couple in a vehicle saw a woman in a nightgown on the side of the road, who went back into the bush when the car approached. She was reportedly wearing a pink nightgown.
Lois Hanna was thought to have disappeared in a peach coloured nightgown. Her car, her purse, and the clothes she had been wearing were still at her house, and she had put out the garbage.
"That's just one concession north of our search area. That section where the girl was seen in the nightgown was searched extensively, but the concession south where the scream was heard, and the bra was found, was not," he added.
A grid search will begin at 8:30 a.m. September 28, 2019, at 869 Kairshea Ave., one concession south of Holyrood. The search is expected to continue on Sunday, September 29th.
Volunteers are asked to sign in. It would be even better if people register in advance, by messaging the Please Bring Me Home Facebook Page. There will be refreshments and bathroom facilities.
