CANADA Canada - Dawn Carisse, 43, North Bay, Ont, 10 Aug 2001

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... photo found .... maybe a likeness of Dawn closer to the time of her disappearance ...

Thank you! A very good picture of her. Pretty, with her astonishing blue eyes (she has green eyes they say, but I see blue) in contrast with her darker hair.

 

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An interesting Podcast from Ellen White, Whereabouts Unknown, about a lot of people missing from the North Bay psychiatric hospital, including Dawn Carisse and the saddening circumstances in the hospital. Shocking....Dawn's daughters are also interviewed.

 

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Nov 13 2021
Private investigator hunts for clues in missing patient cases at North Bay Psychiatric Hospital
''Sandra McNeil is in the room because she’s searching for her mother, Dawn Carisse, who disappeared 20 years ago. Dawn, a mother of 3, was just 43-years-old when she ran away from the North Bay Psychiatric Hospital. She vanished without a trace.

In 1992, Dawn was placed at this hospital because of a sudden, debilitating brain injury that caused short-term memory loss. The injury caused her to forget her keys, or remember whether she turned off the stove. The sickness put her children at risk and was soon too much for her husband to handle. He thought she would be safer at the psychiatric hospital.''

But ''keeping Dawn in that hospital was a challenge. Even though she had short-term memory problems, she was exceptionally sharp. Her first nurse, Darlene Gingras, remembers how she would hover near the ward door, warning she would run. She desperately wanted to go back north, to be with her kids, in Kirkland Lake.

Dawn would repeat herself constantly, Gingras remembers: “She said, 'I’m Dawn the Running Bear and when I run, no one is going to catch me.'”

Dawn tried to run away from the hospital nine times before. Each time, she was found and brought back. One time, she even tried to hitchhike. However, on her 10th attempt, she disappeared. There was no note, few clues and her body has never been recovered.

Dawn was one of six patients who disappeared from the North Bay Psychiatric Hospital between 1966 and 2010. Unlike Dawn, who was supposed to be kept under 24 hour supervision and in a locked ward, some of the patients who disappeared had privileges to freely go in and out of the facility.''

''Watch W5's 'Dawn: The Running Bear' Saturday at 7 p.m. on CTV''

 

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‎Whereabouts Unknown on Apple Podcasts

 

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W5: A mother vanishes from a psychiatric hospital in Ontario
Nov 13, 2021

Private investigator hunts for clues in missing patient cases at North Bay Psychiatric Hospital

 

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North Bay Police Service
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''Dawn Eva Carisse
Missing since: August 9th, 2001
Year of birth: 1958
Age at disappearance: 43
Gender: Female
Bio group: Indigenous (First Nations)
Eye colour: Green
Hair: Short brown, parted in the centre
Height: 168 cm / 5 ft 6 in
Weight: 52 kg / 115 lb
Build: slender / thin
Scar: faint, on her left cheek
Last seen: wearing a short-sleeved long pink dress with a faint white flower pattern, a buttoned front, and a draw string that crisscrossed the back. She was also wearing brownish-red closed-toed sandals.

Dawn may have gone to Sudbury or Kirkland Lake to see her children
At that time of her disappearance, Dawn Eva Carisse was a patient of the North Bay Psychiatric Hospital who had been admitted approximately 18 years prior.

Dawn was living with short-term memory loss and was often easily disoriented. Two years prior to her 2001 disappearance, she left the hospital grounds in an attempt to see her children, who were living in the Kirkland Lake area at the time. She was later found hitchhiking along Highway 11 in the opposite direction of Kirkland Lake. Since 1997, Dawn had eloped nine times from the Ward, to be later found by hospital staff walking on the hospital grounds or on Highway 11.

At approximately 5 p.m. on Thursday August 9th, 2001, at the time when patients of her ward regularly met in a common room for dinner, hospital staff noticed that Dawn was not there, or on the ward. They immediately began a search for her on the hospital grounds and along Highway 11. This met with negative results. The following morning, hospital staff contacted the North Bay Police Service to report that she was missing.

Police conducted a thorough investigation, which included interviews with hospital staff, relatives and friends, and the dissemination of alerts to police partners and the public via the media. Following the media coverage, police received two reports from members of the public of possible sightings of Dawn. Unfortunately, all attempts to locate her were unsuccessful.

Dawn Carisse was known to have a pleasant personality. Based on her past behaviour of previous attempts to leave the hospital, it is possible that she was planning to go see her children. Her children were still living in the Kirkland Lake area at the time. However, she may have been travelling towards Sudbury. The guardians of her children had expressed to her that they were planning to move to Sudbury with the children within a year or two.''

Submit a tip

Anyone with information that may help us with this investigation is asked to call the North Bay Police Service at 705-497-5555 (and select option 9 to speak to a police officer) or visit us in person at 135 Princess Street West, North Bay.


For those who wish to remain anonymous, contact Near North Crime Stoppers by telephone toll-free at 1-800-222-8477, or submit a tip online at nearnorthcrimestoppers.com.''

 

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So good to see renewed attention for Dawn's missing case. Good thoughts and good luck to her loved ones.

 

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Private Investigator seeking answers over missing persons cases at old psychiatric hospital - Timmins News

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...They may be decades apart but Ellen White still sees unique parallels between six missing persons cases which all are tied to the old North Bay Psychiatric Hospital which was located on Highway 11 North, north of the city of North Bay.

Ellen White, is a private investigator who runs a podcast called “Whereabouts Unknown".

"The common link is they all happened at the old psychiatric hospital; the old building on the highway," said White, who is based out of Barrie.

The six, include Philippe Guerin (1966), Dawn Carisse (2001), Terry Zubko (1982), Norman Welsh (1976), Glen Wesley (2010) and Russell Hoffert (2000).

 

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...Then fast forward a few decades to the 2001 unsual case of Dawn Carrise.

She is a woman with a brain injury and memory loss, White says she left the hospital nine times from a securely locked ward.

"On her 10th attempt to break out she gets out and is never seen again," said White.

 

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• BY DANIELLE MARR
• UPDATED MAR 8, 2022

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Dawn Eva Carisse with her daughters Sandra and Nicole and husband Brooks before being admitted to the North Bay Psychiatric Hospital. Carisse went missing in 2001 and was never seen again. July 2019. - Sandra Mcneil Photo

• “Considering Dawn’s case dates back to 2001, there has not been any recent information that would forward the investigation. However, we have been working diligently attempting to complete comparisons with unidentified human remains cases across the country,” said North Bay Police Det. Const. Dave Wilson.
  
  Carisse is one of the detachment’s 13 unsolved missing persons cases. Six of these people disappeared from the same location: the former psychiatric hospital, which was demolished in 2013.
  
  While Wilson said he feels as though the detachment has developed a solid working relationship with the current North Bay Hospital’s Psychiatric Ward, missing person investigations in general are extremely frustrating for police agencies because Ontario hospitals are bound by privacy laws.''

''Another step in the right direction for missing persons cases, he added, is that a DNA databank is now in place, allowing police to submit missing person and family member DNA profiles in order to be compared with unidentified human remains across the country''
''Previously, police were expected to research individual cases that may relate to their missing person and then contact that agency directly to get a DNA comparison completed; the new system will automate this process.''

BEHIND THE CRIMES: How did 6 patients vanish from a psychiatric hospital? | Crime | toronto.com

''Philippe Guérin was a 27-year-old patient of the hospital when he disappeared June 12, 1966. Hospital officials sent a letter to police reporting him missing. His parents died never knowing what happened to their son, the oldest missing persons case on record at the North Bay Police Service.

A decade later, 31-year-old Norman Welsh was picked up by OPP walking along a highway outside Sturgeon Falls, July 18, 1976.

Concerned for his safety, police took him to a local hospital; from there he was admitted to the psychiatric hospital. When staff accompanied him outside the next day, he ran toward the wooded grounds and was never seen again.

On July 21, 1982, Terry Zubko was 18, a patient at the hospital since May. At 10 a.m., granted one hour of unsupervised time outside, Zubko went for a walk from which he would never return. He was reported missing later that afternoon.

On April 7, 2000, a particularly frigid day, just one year before Carisse slipped away, 34-year-old patient Russell Hoffert was reported missing. Hospital staff told police he simply walked away wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt, jeans and running shoes. With the wind chill that day, it was -20 degrees outside.''
On his 28th birthday, Glen Wesley was headed for downtown North Bay. A patient of the hospital, he had been granted special leave at 1 p.m. on Sept. 15, 2010 on a short-term pass. He never returned.''

“Can you really have six human lives just disappear?” That is the question Ellen White poses on her podcast, Whereabouts Unknown.

The former private investigator has assembled a team, including a genealogist, to dig into missing persons cases in North Bay. Some of the missing patients, White said, “are not people who are sophisticated in their thinking or had access to a telephone back then, without staff.”