Bones collected during a weekend search by volunteers for the remains of Lisa Maas, will be analyzed this week.
About 60 volunteers gathered at the Annan baseball diamond this past weekend to search for Maas’ remains. She went missing from the area on July 17th, 35 years ago.
Please Bring Me Home is a local group founded by Nick Oldrieve and Matthew Nopper that looks for missing people. They have conducted searches for Lisa Maas before, as well as other people who have been missing from the area.
Oldrieve says this past weekend, they searched seven different sites. “All, had, in my opinion, equal probability of (being) the site Lisa Maas could have been, for lack of a better word– dumped, and at each site we visited… bones were found.”
He adds, “More likely, all of those are not human bones.” Oldrieve says they catalogue all of the bones and where they are found and send them off to a forensic anthropologist for review.
Please Bring Me Home plans to use ground penetrating radar to search there in the coming days.
He says, “We were focusing (Sunday’s) search areas based on evidence surrounding Lisa’s case. So, where her licence was found, where she was last seen, and where her car was found was really where we focused all of our efforts.”
No one has ever been charged in relation to Lisa Maas’ disappearance, but Oldrieve believes there are people in the region who have information regarding the case, including information about where her remains are.
“There are people out there locally that know what happened to Lisa,” says Oldrieve.
Maas’ father passed away recently, but Oldrieve believes the search is still important, and they continue to search to bring closure to other members of her family.
“Just because Lisa’s father has passed does not mean that our mission slows in any way. We still continue on and push on to bring her home,” says Oldrieve, adding, the brothers of Lois Hanna who went missing from the Kincardine area around the same time always help with the searches for Lisa Maas.
Oldrieve says they completed searches of three sites Sunday, noting, “By the time we were done with those three sites, there was no chance that Lisa could be there.”
His goal is to put more time into one site, pending permission of the landowner complete a search at one of the Annan sites they searched this past weekend.
“We need to be confident, when we walk away from those sites, there is zero per cent possibility of Lisa being there,” says Oldrieve, noting the plan is to use ground penetrating radar on the site in the coming days.
The Please Bring Me Home website says, 22 year old Maas, who was pregnant, was last seen on the morning of Sunday, July 17th, 1988, leaving a house party in Woodford, Ontario. They say she arrived at the party with a girlfriend and male acquaintance, her girlfriend stayed behind when Maas left with the male acquaintance.
Please Bring Me Home says, according to his statement, the male acquaintance drove Lisa back to her car and she left for home.
Two days after her disappearance, Maas’ car was found stuck in the mud on a blind road running through a farmer’s property.