In December 2016, Lina Tedros, a 15-year-old female, disappeared from Toronto, Ontario, together with her mother, Hellen Ermias. Public missing-person records identify the two as mother and daughter and place their disappearance in Toronto during that month. Although some case information has circulated with an age of 43 attached to Lina’s name, independent online sources identify Lina as 15 years old at the time she disappeared.
The publicly available record of what happened to Lina and her mother is remarkably limited. There is no detailed public chronology explaining where they were going, who may have seen them immediately before they vanished, or what circumstances caused both mother and daughter to disappear at the same time. Ontario’s Missing Adults later documented the disappearance of Hellen Ermias and her daughter Lina Tedros as a December 2016 Toronto missing-person case, while other missing-person compilations also place both women among Ontario disappearances from that period.
What makes Lina’s disappearance particularly concerning is that she did not vanish as an adult living independently from her family; she was a child who disappeared along with her mother. That connection has remained central to the case whenever it has been documented publicly. Because the two disappeared together, their cases are inseparable, and any explanation for Lina’s whereabouts would almost certainly have to account for Hellen’s disappearance as well. Yet publicly accessible sources provide very little information about the circumstances surrounding their last known movements. No reliable public account located for the case describes a confirmed destination, subsequent verified sighting, transportation used after their disappearance, or other event that would establish what happened after the pair were last known to be in Toronto. The absence of a detailed public narrative does not mean that investigators have no additional information; Canada’s Missing explains that individual profiles are published at the request of the primary investigating agency and that the national website does not contain every detail or every missing-person case in Canada.
Years after Lina disappeared, her name continued to appear in missing-person resources. In March 2019, Ontario’s Missing Adults announced that it had created a case page specifically concerning the December 2016 disappearance of Hellen Ermias and her daughter Lina Tedros from Toronto. Lina has also continued to be identified separately as a missing child. A May 2026 review of children featured through Canada’s Missing, the national program administered by the RCMP’s National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains, listed “Lina Tedros, 15, Toronto” among Ontario’s missing children. That listing is especially important because it independently confirms that Lina was a teenager when she disappeared rather than a 43-year-old woman. Other missing-person indexes likewise continue to list both Hellen Ermias and Lina Tedros among Ontario’s 2016 disappearances, reinforcing that the two names belong to the same mother-and-daughter case.
Despite the passage of many years, the information available publicly leaves unanswered the most fundamental questions: where Lina and her mother went after leaving their known lives in Toronto, what circumstances surrounded their disappearance, and whether anyone encountered them afterward. There are no reliably documented public details establishing a confirmed sequence of events after they disappeared, and that scarcity of information makes it particularly important not to fill the gaps with speculation. Lina was a 15-year-old girl whose disappearance occurred alongside that of her mother, Hellen Ermias, in Toronto in December 2016, and their names have continued to be preserved in Canadian missing-person resources long after they vanished. In overview, this is a deeply troubling mother-and-daughter disappearance in which two members of the same family vanished during the same period, few circumstances have been made public, and Lina has continued to be remembered and listed among Canada’s missing children.Last Seen: Dec 6, 2016
