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$50K reward offered in case of Kincardine woman missing for 37 years

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Thirty-seven years after her disappearance, the Ontario government is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the location of Lois Hanna.

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Hanna — then 25 — was last seen on Sunday, July 3, 1988, at the Lucknow Homecoming Dance in Kincardine.

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She and her brothers had gone to elementary school there.

A missing persons report was filed on July 4, 1988 with the then-operational Kincardine Police after Hanna did not report for work at MacG’s, a women’s clothing store in Kincardine which was unusual for the former Miss Mid-western Ontario beauty queen.

Apparently, Hanna, who studied fashion at Fanshawe College, loved her work and her co-workers.

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On July 9, 1988, the OPP was called in to help investigate her disappearance and despite an exhaustive search, Hanna was not located.

Police are treating her disappearance as a homicide.

At the time of her disappearance, Hanna was described as 5-foot-4 and 120 pounds, with brown eyes and short brown, curly hair.

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Anyone with information is urged to contact their local police, or the OPP at 1-888-310-1122.

Kincardine woman Lois Hanna
The province is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the location of Lois Hanna, who went missing in Kincardine, Ont., 37 years ago. (OPP) Photo by OPP

In a 2004 article, reprinted in 2024, the London Free Press delved into Hanna’s disappearance.

At the dance, the missing woman kissed her brother, Dave, on the cheek just before midnight and waved goodbye to her friends.

She reportedly travelled 20 minutes in darkness along Hwy. 86 in her red 1987 Pontiac Grand Am to the Kincardine home she had just moved into and parked in the driveway.

After entering the home and locking the door, she reportedly placed her purse and keys in their usual spot  – a china cupboard – and hung the pink dress she wore that night in her closet.

“Everything was good right up until the time she walked out of the arena,” her brother, Dave Hanna, told the London Free Press.

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