- [Narrator] What is up, EWU crew?
Today, we are covering three cold cases solved years later.
Let's get right to into it.
Number three: Lucy Ann Johnson.
A few photos.
A few photos is all Linda Evans had left of her mother,
Lucy Ann Johnson.
In 1961, Linda Evans was living happily at age seven
with her mother and father, Lucy and Marvin, respectively,
along with a younger brother.
While the home was not as happy
as the children may have thought,
Linda did the best to make it so.
She enjoyed holidays with the fully-fledged family,
a definition of the American dream in the time of the '60s.
That is, until Lucy Ann Johnson suddenly left the family,
leaving her children behind as she fled.
Linda grew up with three photos of her mother,
admiring her throughout her life
and wondering exactly what she was like.
She did not have much to go off of,
according to the interview she underwent
with the National Post.
In said interview, Linda recalled,
"And when my father remarried,
"me and my younger brother were not allowed
"to bring up Lucy's name, so all I was left with
"were two little pictures of Lucy and one bigger one.
"That is all I knew of my mother."
Linda's father did not call in Lucy's disappearance
until 1965, making him a prime suspect
in Lucy's disappearance.
Authorities searched everywhere
they thought Lucy could possibly be, dead or alive.
They turned up empty-handed and confused.
Over time, the family and others
thought Lucy must have died,
but they could never exactly figure out how.
They interviewed neighbors,
searched the house and the houses around,
but found absolutely no traces of Lucy.
Foul play was suspected but never acted upon.
Marvin Johnson, Linda's father and Lucy's husband,
was the prime suspect of the case,
but they could never find any solid evidence
to charge him with any counts of any crime
for Lucy's vanishing act.
Marvin Johnson also refused to speak about Lucy
or her disappearance, prohibiting his children
from asking about her once she was gone.
It says in the same article, "She imagined so many things
"as a little girl but could never ask her father.
"The subject was closed.
"Mentioning her name in Marvin Johnson's household
"was forbidden, a fatherly edict that was not to be ignored,
"no matter how close Linda Evans grew to her dad."
After being so confused and ignored
in her questions about her mother,
Linda managed to find Lucy and Marvin's marriage license.
After doing more sleuthing,
using the little number of resources she had,
Linda finally found her mother's birthdate,
full name, and birthplace.
Using these resources, Linda worked up the courage
to release an ad online in an attempt to find
her lost relatives and family she had never known.
The ad read, "I'm looking for my relatives.
"My grandparents' names are Margaret and Andrew Carvell.
"My mother's name is Lucy Ann Carvell.
"She was born October 14th, 1935 in Skagway."
In the ad, Linda also included her email address.
Determined to find her family, she sent this ad
to the Yukon News in order to finally receive answers
she had waited around 50 years for.
Hope surged when Rhonda and Howard Glenn found the ad,
finding their half-sister that they never knew they had.
Rhonda, who was living in Whitehorse, Canada,
received a call from her brother,
who advised her to check out
the newest edition to the Yukon News.
She was beyond shocked to see that her mother
was in the ad as a missing person.
She was even more surprised that Linda
was saying that Lucy was her mother.
Rhonda wasted no time contacting Linda
with questions concerning who exactly she was.
She had no idea her mother was missing,
nor about her double life she escaped from
while she was fleeing to Canada.
Linda, excited and nervous
to finally find her family she had also never known,
was even more excited to see her mother.
Linda had two phone conversations with her mother,
which she had mixed feelings about.
She thought her mother was dead,
even murdered, for 52 years,
just to find out that she was alive
and living a totally different life.
Linda, curious, asked many questions
about why exactly Lucy left them with their father.
Lucy reasoned that Marvin was horribly abusive to Lucy,
beating her while grossly intoxicated.
Unable to deal with it anymore, Lucy fled the house,
but Marvin would not let her take her children.
After Marvin declared that she could not take Linda
or her younger brother, Lucy ran alone.
Linda, not a grandmother, visited her mother in her new home
shortly after the conversations,
and they exchanged very tearful hellos.
While Linda describes their first interactions
as very awkward and uncomfortable,
she said that she would like to move to Whitehorse
to be closer to her mother,
a happy, unexpected ending on a 52-year-old case.
Number two: Jack Morrison.
Jack Morrison's 1968 disappearing act,
probably the most weirdly wholesome
disappearing act of them all.
In the '60s, Jack Morrison was happily married in Canada.
He was married to an Anne Morrison,
a lovely woman, by his standards.
It was devastating when they split in 1967,
though they never ended up getting an official divorce.
Instead of officially divorcing Anne,
Jack disappeared from Canada without a trace.
Confused about his disappearance, people began looking,
fearful that he had been murdered or kidnapped.
Not a trace of evidence or information came up about him.
A lawyer spread information that Jack
had been shot and killed, and that was that.
It seemed like the end of the case,
the end of Jack Morrison,
the most charming and charismatic man at the party.
Or was it?
What truly happened to Jack,
Someone that seemingly uprooted his life?
False U.S. documents under the name Jack Owens
give us the clear answer.
Jack Morrison was no longer Jack Morrison from Canada
but rather Jack Owens in the United States,
living a separate life under the alias.
He was alive and thriving,
with a job in car sales and a happy marriage.
He lived this happy life until Hurricane Katrina hit,
leaving him unfortunately homeless.
Even then, though, Jack tried to piece his life
back together in sunny California.
He was only caught when authorities
asked for a birth certificate in 2010,
something he did not have because of his false documents.
So, Jack Morrison went back to Canada,
his fake ID left in California,
as he eventually went back to the place
he had originally made it a point to run away from.
What was the first thing Jack did
after being steadily housed and comfortable?
He tried to find his technical wife, Anne Morrison.
They never truly got a divorce,
as Jack fled before they could officially file it.
Even so, Jack had no idea where his wife was
once he had settled in a home for veterans.
He was in the military in Canada during his youth.
As he learned how to maneuver Facebook,
he searched for family and friends,
some of which had passed during Jack's time as Mr. Owens.
Desperate to find his wife, he went to Montreal,
where Jack and Anne had originally gotten married,
to find the records of their marriage.
He talked a government official into giving him
the location of Anne, which was Orangeville.
Immediately, he started calling
every Morrison in Orangeville, delighted to stumble
upon Anne's current husband after his second call.
Shocked that Jack Morrison was indeed still alive,
he rushed to tell Anne,
who was in chemotherapy for ovarian cancer.
Anne's sister, Mary Thompson Hill,
ended up having to bestow the news onto her.
She gently told Anne that Jack was very much alive.
At first, Anne refuted this new information,
as a lawyer had told Anne that Jack,
informally known as Jackie,
had been shot in the head and killed.
Eventually, Anne began to believe it,
even if it was mind-blowing
that Jack was still alive after all these years.
The news felt like a weight was taken off Anne's shoulders,
as she was absolutely sure
that Jack had died all those years ago.
To see him again was both exciting
and nerve-wracking for her.
According to an interview Jack, Anne and Mary
had done with The Star, Jack recalled their 1967 split.
"It was completely my fault when I got up and I left.
"It was nothing to do with her.
"She's a nice woman, a very lovely individual."
Eventually, the two met again,
all nerves being thrown out of the window
when they realized that neither of them have changed a bit.
Heartwarmingly, both of them fondly describe
how their eyes are familiar to one another,
holding warmth that they both recall from years lost.
In their wholesome reunion, Jack and Anne's husband
got along surprisingly well,
considering the situation they were in.
The article reads, "Morrison stayed for a day and a half,
"talked about the past with Anne,
"shot pool with Morrison's partner, a very nice man.
"They laughed about who was Anne's husband.
"It was funny in the way that it's,
""No, I'm her husband,' and, 'No, I'm her husband.'
"They went on like that.
"They got along very well," according to Anne.
Even with the new development,
Anne refuses to change her last name,
as she has found comfort in it
through all these baffling years.
The mystery of her dead husband had finally been solved,
and they are both doing fine.
Number one: Julie Bureau.
In Quebec, a 14-year-old schoolgirl made massive headlines
when she was reported missing for three years.
Julie Bureau, who was 14 before the time
of her disappearance, was living with her parents
in their home in Eastern Townships.
She was a normal girl, going to school
and growing up with friends and family.
This, of course, all took a turn
when Julie went suddenly missing in 2001.
Her family immediately filed a report,
and massive searches were conducted for the missing girl,
living in an inconspicuous small town
before her disappearance.
Not much information has been brought up about this process,
but, needless to say, nothing was found.
Losing hope, the thought that Julie was alive
began to seriously dwindle.
Most thought she was kidnapped and murdered,
as that is usually what happens
with cases of young girls vanishing into thin air.
Her parents were terrified
that they would find Julie dead in a ditch,
but it was even more harrowing to find nothing at all.
The case did not provide the family,
or anyone else who was close to Julie, any closure.
That is, until a visitor to a local flea market
reported seeing Julie there, healthy and happy.
In 2004, three years after her disappearance,
Julie Bureau was finally found at the age of 17.
She had been living an hour away from the Eastern Townships,
where her childhood home was,
during the whole time of her disappearance.
She had been living with Jean-Paul Bernard,
a single father who had found a starving Julie hitchhiking.
The two had both insisted that their relationship
was strictly friendship, as Julie was a minor,
even when she found by the passerby at the flea market.
Julie reported in her book
that she had been around gangs and prostitutes
for a time before she found Jean-Paul.
She began working and making her own living after that.
She also claimed that her own mother
had driven her away from her home,
recalling the psychological torture her mother
had put her through during her time living in her home.
Tired of it, Julie left her controlling mother.
Her mother claims this is not true,
even when faced with direct excerpts of Julie's book,
"La vraie Julie Bureau."
Julie's parents say that she lied about her home life
and that most of it was either made up
or exaggerated in her story.
Julie claimed she did not know she was being looked for
across the town and country,
but she later admitted to writing to her friends
and watching a television segment about her disappearance.
Either way, Julie refused to come home to her family
at the time of her discovery, staying with Jean-Paul
until she could go off on her own
with stability and happiness.
The case is rather simple,
but it still holds many twists and turns
that require a second glance to truly see.
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