Marianne Schuett was 10 when she disappeared. 55 years later, police and family are still searching
CBC
Ten-year-old Marianne Schuett was walking home from school wearing a red, reversible jacket, plaid skirt and blue running shoes.
She stopped just a short ways from home to talk to a man sitting in a small, European car.
The date is April 27, 1967. Marianne hasn't been seen again.
"The child had only 400 yards to go to her home, but she never arrived," reads an Ontario Provincial Police "Missing Person" poster from that time.
The poster offers scant details of the day Marianne disappeared. Police say they believe the man in the car abducted the small girl with ear-length brown hair and greenish-blue eyes.
The suspect is described as a man in his 40s, with a thin face and glasses. Fifty-five years later, no one has been charged and Marianne has never been found.
On Wednesday, church bells will ring in Kilbride, a village near Burlington, Ont., where Marianne was taken — marking her memory and reinforcing the fact the little girl hasn't been forgotten.
"Just picture all of a sudden somebody in your life is gone and you don't know why, where, how, are they dead, are they alive?" said Steve Schuett, Marianne's brother.
Schuett was five the day Marianne went missing. Her being gone has been part of his life nearly as far back as he can recall.
Now 60, he remembers his sister as a shy, slightly awkward kid. The OPP poster says Marianne was "very mild-mannered."
"It's baffled us forever," said Schuett, about the question of how Marianne ended up in the man's car. "Even back then, we were told, 'You don't go with strangers.'"
The loss of Marianne left its mark on the family, he added, saying his mother suffered bouts of depression.
They had hoped to learn what really happened to Marianne to give their mother some peace, but she died in February.
"That was the big hope, but we still want to continue … just so we can have closure," said Schuett.
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