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A quarter century after a young woman vanished from her suburban Toronto home, Ontario Provincial Police have reopened an investigation into her disappearance, and unearthed a new, unconfirmed report she may have been spotted alive in the United States.

If the sighting is real, it would fit with her mother’s fear that Amanda Jane Rudge intentionally disappeared in 1991, aged 27, to save herself and her mother after criminals threatened to kill her.

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If it turns out to be false, it will be yet another dead-end lead in a twisting investigation that has now been pursued, with varying intensity, by at least three separate police forces.

A focus of the new investigation is an anonymous phone call at the time of the disappearance to Amanda’s mother, Sylvia Rudge, saying she would never see her daughter again if Amanda gave evidence as a witness to the crimes of her acquaintances in a risky subculture of drugs and drinking.