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Nick graduated from Sir Sanford Fleming College in 2010 with a social worker diploma. During his studies, he did a placement at a group home which was his first foray into working with youth. After college, he worked at a few group home facilities for developmentally disabled youth before being hired by Broken Arrow Residential Treatment Services (BARTS), a treatment foster care program. Shortly after joining BARTS, a crisis team was formed to deal with runway youth exhibiting aggressive behaviours. Nick’s first full-time client was a teenager from northern Newfoundland. Not long after, the youth ran away and Nick was tasked with locating the boy. Nick jointed the Crisis Team and helped in locating several other missing youth. After returning to Owen Sound in 2013, he continued to assist with finding missing youth until one day in early 2016, he stumbled upon the case of Lisa Maas. Nick and a couple friends began looking into the cold case which, for Nick, led to a passion for trying to solve these cases.

Matthew first searched for Lisa Maas back in July of 1990, two years after her disappearance. After graduating from York University with a degree in English and Creative Writing, he worked for several years as a reporter at the Owen Sound Sun Times which introduced him to the region’s unique culture and history. He has always had a fascination with missing persons cases, particularly the cases of Lisa Maas and Lois Hanna. Tragically, in September of 2012, Matthew’s father disappeared, leaving only a suicide note behind. Matthew and other family members searched for his father that night, who was later found by police, deceased. Upon hearing of Nick’s efforts, he reached out to Nick in January of 2017, initially to talk about his search for Lisa in 1990. They quickly realized they shared a similar passion and desire to bring home the missing.

Melissa has always had a passion for crime and has spent many years researching local cases. She contacted Nick in the summer of 2016 and has worked tirelessly to research missing persons cases across the country and North America. Her analysis has resulted in identifying trends in missing persons cases, focusing on demographics, gender and geography.