Linda Evans solved one of the Surrey RCMP’s oldest missing person’s cases about two weeks ago.
Lucy Ann Johnson was last seen by neighbors in Surrey, British Columbia, in 1961. Lucy’s husband, Marvin Johnson, did not report her missing until 1965. Police considered him a suspect for that very reason.
Police never found any evidence to implicate him. He died in 1990’s.
“Honestly, I thought she was dead because there’s been no contact. Nothing,” Evans told the Surrey Leader .
Lucy was born in Alaska and lived in the Yukon town of Carcross before she married. Linda decided to place an ad in a Yukon newspaper with Lucy’s name, date of birth, place of birth, and her grandparents’ names on an odd chance that someone might recognize her.
Linda’s stepsister called police with a tip that solved the missing persons case.
"The original daughter of Lucy Johnson, who went above and beyond to promote and try to generate tips all over B.C., actually somehow connected with a stepsister, who she did not know she had at the time," Corporal Bert Paquet, spokesman for Surrey RCMP, told CBS News .
“The police phoned me and said ‘we found your mom’ and I said ‘no, I found my mom’,” Evans told Surrey Leader .
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