Andrew Horberry, president of the Church and Wellesley Neighbourhood Association, is one of them. "People are worried obviously, there's been a number of incidents and maybe they're connected maybe they're not connected. We don't know," Horberry told CBC News. "But every one is a cause for concern."
[h=2]'I do feel unsafe'[/h] That anxiety has prompted Horberry to seek out volunteers to help him organize a walk-safe program in the neighbourhood.
The details have yet to be ironed out but the program could include a buddy system that would allow people walking alone to call for someone to accompany them, or a telephone monitoring system for people to remain on the line with someone if alone.
That's welcome news to Jessica Redwood, who says she no longer feels safe in the neighbourhood where she's lived for six years.
"When I first moved here, I felt perfectly safe, never had a concern about walking home on my own.... But it's just got to the point where I do feel unsafe."
Dani Rose, another community member, was prompted to put together an online map of unsolved disappearances in the area dating back to 2010.
Rose says she's been tracking the stories in her community for months and noticed a "growing sense of fear walking alone." That fear was only compounded, she says, by the string of missing persons reports this year.
