CANADA Canada - Norman Whalley, 36, & Grant Ayerst, 21, Toronto, 11 Sept 1991

[h=1]Reward offered for information in 26-year-old cold case[/h]

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June 14, 2017 A reward is being offered for information that could help police in the investigation of two men who disappeared more than 20 years ago.
The province announced on Wednesday a $50,000 reward in the case of Grant Ayerst and Norman Whalley.
The two men were last seen together on Sept. 11, 1991 leaving a Toronto-area hotel. The pair was known to travel to Barrie.

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On Thursday June 15, 2017, Simcoe County Case Files will begin to feature videos, posted to social media, which will sequence the events which led up to the disappearance of Grant AYERST and Norman WHALLEY.

Investigators from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Barrie Police Service are urging anyone who may have information on this case, to contact the Simcoe County Case Files Hotline toll-free at 1-844-677-5030 or by email at SimcoeCountyCaseFiles@opp.ca

If you have any information and wish to remain anonymous, you can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or you can submit a tip on-line to www.crimestopperssdm.com where you may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $2000.

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Police say Grant Ayerst, 21, and Norman Whalley, 36, flew to Toronto from B.C. to sell drugs.

Ayerst had lived in Barrie and had only moved out west two months prior to his return visit to Ontario.
Whalley had never been to Ontario before.
In the video created for social media, Leon’s voice-over says police know the two men stayed at a Toronto hotel during the Toronto International Film Festival and then checked out to visit the Barrie area.
“We know they had return flights booked to return to B.C. on Sept. 13, and they never took that flight,” Bamford said.
Both men disappeared and haven’t been seen or heard of since.
“We know people move away and may live in a different city or even a different country now,” she said. “But if people share the videos, it may be that one little thing that jogs someone’s memory. Even the smallest detail matters.”

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Provincial police and Barrie police plan to hold a news conference today to announce a resolution to a cold case profiled in a social media video series.

The Simcoe County Case Files series highlighted four missing persons and unsolved homicide cases being investigated jointly by the two police forces.

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[h=1]The Grant Ayerst & Norman Whalley Disappearance – Episode 1 | Simcoe County Case Files[/h]

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Police have laid first-degree murder charges more than 26 years after two men went missing in Barrie.

During a news conference on Wednesday morning, Barrie police and the OPP announced the arrest of 49-year- old Michael Guido Gerald Claes of Elmvale.
He has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Grant Ayerst and Norman Whalley.

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Police say they haven't been able to find their bodies.

More to come…

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tarabull said:

WOW!!!! An arrest!!!!!

:scared:

:justice: for Norman & Grant!!!

:candle:

Where are they???

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dotr said:

1 of 6 videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfqJ2DEcaD0&t=0s&list=PLbecW3cjtFJ4YIjk8amMhTzB5xXypUyAz&index=6

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Police lay two first-degree murder charges in missing persons cold case

The disappearance of Grant Ayerst and Norman Whalley in 1991 was one of four cold cases profiled by provincial and Barrie police forces last year.

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A second suspect has been arrested in the 1991 disappearance and deaths of two men.

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On Wednesday (May 2), 52 year old David Glenn Bond was arrested in Keswick.

He faces two charges of accessory after the fact to murder in the deaths of Grant Ayerst of Barrie and Norman Whalley of British Columbia.

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Their remains have yet to be recovered.

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