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The Vanishing of Barney Laflamme: A Cold Case Crippled at the Start
Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast
12 minutes
5 days ago
The Vanishing of Barney Laflamme: A Cold Case Crippled at the Start
The Vanishing of Barney Laflamme: A Cold Case Crippled at the Start
In May 1981, 24-year-old René Bernard Laflamme—known as "Barney"—vanished from Montreal just days before he was scheduled to begin a new life in British Columbia.
Barney was a man with a plan, deep family ties, and a one-way ticket West. His complete, abrupt silence since May 29th was immediately suspicious. But his final days were spent in the company of an unnamed man in Montreal—an associate characterized by family as "controlling and jealous"—with whom Barney had a heated financial dispute just before he disappeared.
Why was the lead suspect never properly investigated?
Host Jay Nicoll uncovers the tragic truth: the initial search for Barney was fatally compromised by "overlapping police turf" between the Ottawa and Montreal police, allowing critical evidence and the main person of interest to escape scrutiny.
Decades later, Barney's family is still fighting for the justice denied in 1981. This is the story of a preventable investigative failure.
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