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“We are not quite at six months yet and we’ve generated more than 185,000 views and we’ve received more than 50 formal inquiries to share information. From that, about a dozen active tips have come through.”

One case has been successfully closed, and another investigation is in the process of being closed, said Watson, although due to privacy concerns he could not reveal anything further.

Photo by Jason Payne / PNG

Could it be the “Babes in the Woods” murders, marked on the mapping tool with a locator dropped near the Lion’s Gate Bridge in Stanley Park and dated 1953, the year the bodies of the two little boys — murdered by a hatchet sometime around 1947 and found together covered by a woman’s fur coat — will be solved?

Or the case of the man in the blue checkered shirt who loved Edna, Mary C, Marlene, but no longer loved Karene?

In every case, said Watson, the unidentified person had a family — someone who loved them, who missed them, who wondered where they went.

Perhaps the remains belong to someone who disappeared decades ago, long before communications made tracking and finding and searching more efficient. Perhaps the person had told someone they planned to go to Alberta but somehow landed, and perished, in B.C.

Perhaps family members who never thought to look for their loved ones here in B.C., or who had given up hope, will recognize something: a star-shaped scar on a wrist, a Chinese mudman pot figurine someone carried, a pink sweater with a large eagle on the front.