Joseph Paul Pierre Beaudoin was 45 years old when he disappeared during a journey that carried him from Prince Edward Island into Quebec and ultimately left investigators with few clues about what happened to him. Official records list him as missing since May 29, 1990, the day he left his residence in Hebron, Prince Edward Island. Although the case is associated with New Richmond, Quebec, police later established that his final confirmed sighting actually occurred two days later, on May 31,
when he checked out of the Hotel Francis in New Richmond. Beaudoin, who also went by the name Pierre, was a White male born in approximately 1945. He stood about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed approximately 205 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. He was described as wearing a green military-style shirt, blue denim jeans, and a green cloth Army jacket. The available public record does not explain why he left Hebron, where he intended to travel afterward, or whether he told relatives or acquaintances when he expected to return.
The known timeline places Beaudoin in New Richmond after leaving Prince Edward Island. Police confirmed that he stayed at the Hotel Francis, providing investigators with evidence that he had successfully reached Quebec and remained there for at least part of his trip. His checkout from the hotel on May 31 became the last documented point at which he was known to have been seen. What happened immediately after he left the hotel has never been publicly established. There is no publicly released account identifying anyone who saw him depart, describing the direction in which he drove, or establishing another confirmed destination. Those unanswered questions created a significant gap in the investigation: Beaudoin had left his home, traveled hundreds of kilometres, stayed at a hotel in New Richmond, and then seemingly vanished after checking out. With no later verified communication or sighting publicly documented, investigators were left trying to determine where his journey had taken him after New Richmond and what circumstances prevented him from returning or contacting those who knew him.
A potentially important development came later when Beaudoin's vehicle and personal belongings were discovered far from his home and from the Quebec hotel where he had last been seen. On August 17, 1990, his truck and belongings were located in a dense wooded area approximately 72 kilometres southeast of Route 275 in the Balmoral, New Brunswick, area. The discovery established that his vehicle had somehow traveled from New Richmond into New Brunswick, but the public case information does not explain who drove it there, how long it had been in the wooded location, or whether investigators found evidence revealing what happened to Beaudoin after leaving the hotel. The fact that both the truck and personal property were found while Beaudoin himself remained missing became one of the central mysteries of the case. Publicly available information does not disclose whether extensive ground searches, tracking efforts, forensic examinations, or witness interviews produced additional evidence, leaving the circumstances surrounding the vehicle's arrival in the wooded area unresolved.
The disappearance remains listed through Canada's national missing-person system under case reference 2014002350, with the investigating police reference W90-975. Information concerning Beaudoin's disappearance is directed to the East Prince RCMP, Prince District RCMP–West Prince Office, and information may also be provided through Crime Stoppers or the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains. Decades after Pierre Beaudoin left his Hebron residence, the essential sequence remains painfully incomplete: he departed Prince Edward Island on May 29, traveled to New Richmond, Quebec, stayed at the Hotel Francis, was last confirmed alive when he checked out on May 31, and his truck and personal belongings were eventually discovered in a remote wooded location near Balmoral, New Brunswick. No publicly documented account explains how he reached that area or what became of him afterward. His case therefore endures as the disappearance of a man whose movements can be followed across three provinces to a final series of clues, but whose fate beyond those clues remains unknown.Last Seen: May 29, 1990
