It has been 29 years since six teenage boys have been final seen in Pickering, vanishing with out a hint after an evening of partying.
And it has been simply two months since non-public investigator Bruce Ricketts, who had been engaged on the case, died with out ever discovering the reality he had been in search of.
It is believed that within the early morning hours of March 17, 1995, Jay Boyle, Chad Smith, Michael Cummins, Danny Higgins, Robbie Rumboldt and Jamie Lefebvre stole a ship and water tricycle and took them for an ill-fated journey on the frigid waters of Lake Ontario.
Durham police investigated the disappearances and concluded the boys stole a ship from the East Shore Marina on Frenchman’s Bay, motored out onto Lake Ontario the place they capsized their boat and died of hypothermia.
The boys and the boats stay lacking. All that was discovered was a fuel can believed to have belonged to the 14-foot Boston Whaler duplicate police imagine the boys stole, which washed up in Wilson, NY.
Nonetheless, Ricketts questioned whether or not this really did belong to the lacking boat.
Ricketts spent greater than a decade investigating the case, professional bono, and continued to have questions concerning the investigation.
“I think it will take reopening up the entire case, a re-evaluation of all of the evidence that existed,” Ricketts stated in a 2018 interview. “There’s too much hidden here, there’s too much not being said.”
Ricketts typically posed inquiries to police and filed freedom of knowledge requests up till his demise.
A web based obituary states Ricketts died this January in Ottawa.
It’s unknown whether or not anyone else will proceed to look into the case of the lacking boys.
Ricketts appeared to have continued his investigation, together with his newest blog put up simply greater than a month earlier than his demise. Ricketts had posted a couple of “coincidence” across the case that had been bothering him within the put up dated Nov. 29, 2023.
“I have been working on the case of the Lost Boys of Pickering for over 13 years now,” he stated. “There have been ups and downs, triumphs and disappointments, but we push on.”
Ricketts pointed to a hearth that occurred 5 kilometres away from the place the boys have been reported to have gone lacking, on March 23, simply days after the boys have been final seen. He had filed an entry request for documentation of the hearth, curious to search out any data on the chance that one of many stolen boats was burned there.
“Let’s see if we can put this coincidence to rest,” he had stated.
Ricketts by no means posted once more earlier than his demise.
Anybody with data on the case can name Durham police at 905-579-1520, or anonymously contact Durham Regional Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or logging on to www.durhamregionalcrimestoppers.ca.
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