Dina Bat-og Missing Person Case

Dina Bat-Og was a 45-year-old woman who disappeared from Toronto, Ontario, after leaving her home for work on November 20, 2010. According to the Government of Canada’s national missing-persons case information, she was last seen at approximately 5:00 p.m. as she left her residence to go to work. Before leaving, Dina told others that she expected to return home around midnight. That ordinary plan for the evening became the central point in her disappearance when midnight came and Dina did not return. Publicly available records do not identify the address from which she departed, the location of her workplace, how she intended to travel there, or whether investigators were able to establish that she ever arrived at work. Those missing details leave an important gap between the moment she walked away from her home and the time she was expected back. Born in 1964, Dina was described as an Asian female with a medium build, standing approximately 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighing about 150 pounds. She had brown eyes, and her hair was described in the national case record as brown and red, curly, and approximately shoulder length.

The clothing information preserved with Dina’s case provides one of the few additional glimpses into how she appeared when she vanished. She was reported to have been wearing blue denim pants and a black hooded sweater or hoodie. Beyond that description, the publicly released case information is notably limited. There is no publicly stated explanation for why Dina failed to return home, and the national profile does not describe any message from her after she left, any confirmed sighting later that evening, or any established sequence of movements after approximately 5:00 p.m. It also does not publicly identify a vehicle connected with her disappearance, a specific transit route she may have taken, companions who were with her, or any particular circumstances at her home or workplace that might explain why she disappeared. What remains known is painfully simple: Dina left home intending to go to work and apparently expected the evening to be routine enough that she told those close to her when she planned to be back. When that expected return never happened, her absence became a missing-person investigation, with authorities left to determine what occurred during the hours after she departed.

Dina’s disappearance is recorded under Government of Canada case reference 2014005520, while the Toronto Police Service investigation is associated with case number 2010-3891313.D32. The Toronto Police Service Missing Persons Unit is identified as the investigating agency, and the national record asks anyone possessing information about Dina or the circumstances surrounding her disappearance to contact investigators. Even information that may initially seem insignificant could help clarify her movements after she left home, including whether she was seen traveling to work, whether she arrived at her intended destination, who may have spoken with her that evening, or where she might have gone afterward. The passage of many years does not diminish the importance of those unanswered questions for the people who knew and cared about her. In overview, Dina Bat-Og was a 45-year-old Toronto woman who left her home at approximately 5:00 p.m. intending to go to work and said she expected to return around midnight, but she never came back as planned; the publicly released information offers no confirmed account of her movements after she departed, leaving the crucial hours between her last known sighting and her expected return at the heart of this enduring and deeply troubling missing-person case.
Last Seen: Nov 25, 2010

Canada's Missing - RCMP case 2014005520