Family members of six teenage boys who went missing in Pickering still haven't gotten closure 20 years later.

“It just seems like yesterday actually,” says Barbara Smith, a Pickering resident and the great aunt of Jamie Lefebvre, who was 17 at the time he disappeared.

Dubbed the Lost Boys, the teens vanished March 17, 1995 after a night of partying. Video surveillance caught three of them breaking into a marina on Frenchman's Bay in the very early morning hours. It's believed the boys stole two boats and went for an ill-fated ride on the cold waters of Lake Ontario, but no one really knows what happened.

A massive search for the boys turned up no sign of them or the boats. All that was found was a gas can near Wilson, New York which had been stowed on one of the stolen boats.

“The whole thing just puzzles you,” says Smith. “You don't really have closure.”

Each year the boys' families gather at Frenchman's Bay to remember 17-year-old Jay Boyle; 18-year-old Chad Smith and 17-year-old Robbie Rumboldt of Pickering; 17-year-old Michael Cummins of Oshawa; 16-year-old Danny Higgins of Ajax; and Jamie, who lived in Scarborough.

The families and friends write messages on balloons to their loved ones and lay out flowers on the beach.

On March 14, Smith says around 150 people gathered at The Courtyard Restaurant in Pickering for the special event, A Night to Remember. Families and friends raised funds to install a commemorative bench at the foot of Liverpool Road, and with the remainder, they will make a donation to the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.

“It was just amazing,” says Smith.

She has fond memories of Jamie.

“He was fun, a bit wild I would say, but as a teen at 17, of course they are,” she says.

Jamie's mother died in 2012, never knowing what happened to her son.

In October 2013, the family of Jay Boyle learned that human remains found near the Niagara River in 1998 were wearing a pair of red jeans like the ones he was wearing when he disappeared. Another set of human remains was found nearby.

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According to the Lost Boys of Pickering Facebook page, the families have asked for a DNA test, but so far haven't received any results.

Anyone with new information on the case is asked to call Durham police at 905-579-1520. Anonymous tips can be made to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 FREE.