Yolande Bouchard Missing Person Case

Yolande Bouchard was a 51-year-old woman who disappeared from Trois-Rivières, Quebec, on March 22, 1993. More than three decades later, her name remains associated with one of the long-unsolved missing-person cases from the Trois-Rivières area. Publicly available records identify her as female, give her age as 51 at the time she vanished, and consistently place her disappearance in Trois-Rivières. A document hosted by the National Assembly of Quebec that reviews missing adults connected with the territory of the Trois-Rivières police lists Bouchard among the women who disappeared there and records March 22, 1993, as her disappearance date. Her case also appears in Canadian missing-person compilations organized by the month and year of disappearance, further preserving the basic facts of a case for which remarkably little information has been made publicly available.

The circumstances surrounding Yolande's disappearance remain largely absent from accessible online records. There are no reliable public accounts describing where in Trois-Rivières she was last seen, what she had been doing immediately beforehand, who last spoke with or saw her, what clothing she was wearing, whether she had access to a vehicle, or whether anything unusual was discovered among her possessions. Likewise, the available sources do not describe a confirmed destination, travel plans, medical circumstances, personal difficulties, or evidence explaining why she disappeared. The lack of those details makes it impossible to responsibly reconstruct her final movements or suggest what may have happened to her without entering into speculation. What is clear is that her disappearance was formally preserved among the missing-person cases associated with Trois-Rivières rather than disappearing from the historical record. The Quebec document notes that her case had appeared through Disparus-Canada and had also received exposure through ADR TV in 2017, although the document reported no known corresponding missing-person posting for her on the Trois-Rivières police website at the time of its review.

No dependable online source located for Yolande Bouchard reports that she was subsequently found, nor do the available records provide a confirmed explanation for her disappearance. There is similarly no publicly documented evidence in the accessible material identifying a suspect, establishing that a crime occurred, or determining that Yolande left voluntarily. Those unanswered questions are important because a missing-person case this old can easily become surrounded by assumptions that are not supported by evidence. For Yolande and those who cared about her, however, the passage of time does not diminish the significance of what happened. She was a real woman whose ordinary life in Trois-Rivières was interrupted by a disappearance that has remained documented for decades despite the scarcity of publicly released details. In overview, Yolande Bouchard was 51 when she disappeared from Trois-Rivières on March 22, 1993; her case has continued to appear in Canadian and Quebec missing-person records, yet the circumstances of her last known movements, the events that led to her disappearance, and what ultimately happened to her remain publicly unresolved.
Last Seen: Mar 22, 1993

Canada's Missing - RCMP case 2014002336