Johanne Couture was a 40-year-old woman from Lévis, Quebec, when she disappeared on February 22, 2002. According to information circulated by the Service de police de la Ville de Lévis, Couture was last seen wearing a long gray coat with a hood, black pants and black boots, and she was carrying a backpack. She was approximately 1.65 metres, or 5 feet 5 inches, tall and weighed about 68 kilograms, or 150 pounds. She had brown hair and green eyes.
Investigators also noted a distinctive identifying feature: a star-shaped tattoo on her back. Those details became especially important after she vanished, providing police and members of the public with a description that might help someone recognize her.
The available public information does not provide a detailed account of what Johanne was doing immediately before she disappeared, where in Lévis she was specifically last observed, who last saw her, or what circumstances led authorities to become concerned for her welfare. What is documented is that February 22, 2002 became the date associated with her disappearance and that the Lévis police subsequently sought the public's assistance in locating her. Her case was assigned police event number ETC-020222-008 and has continued to appear in public missing-person information distributed in connection with the Lévis police. With so few publicly released circumstances surrounding the hours before she went missing, the clothing and physical description provided by investigators remain among the most important known details of the case.
Police appeals have asked anyone possessing information about Johanne Couture's disappearance or whereabouts to come forward. The Service de police de la Ville de Lévis has specifically directed information to its confidential Tel-Lien tip line. The continued circulation of her case reflects the importance investigators place on information from people who may remember seeing her, may have known where she intended to go, or may possess information that did not appear significant at the time. Even after many years, a seemingly small recollection can sometimes help investigators reconstruct a missing person's movements, particularly in a case such as this one where comparatively little information about the circumstances of the disappearance has been made public.
Johanne's disappearance remains a case marked by unanswered questions. A 40-year-old woman disappeared from Lévis on February 22, 2002, dressed in a gray hooded coat, black pants and black boots and carrying a backpack, and police have continued to preserve and circulate her identifying information in hopes of obtaining answers. Publicly available records provide her description and the basic facts of her disappearance but do not explain where she went after she was last seen, whether she had plans to meet anyone, what transportation she may have used, or what investigators believe may have happened to her. In overview, the known story is therefore painfully brief but significant: Johanne Couture vanished from Lévis in 2002, police appealed for information from the public, and the circumstances surrounding what happened to her remain unresolved in the publicly available information.Last Seen: Feb 22, 2002
