On the morning of May 25, 1987, 61-year-old Rene Parr left the Trois-Rivières, Quebec, home where he had been living with his sister for approximately six months. Parr, a white male born in 1925, was last known to be at the residence at about 9:00 a.m. before he departed. At the time, he was going through a divorce and was expected to attend a courthouse hearing the following day.
He never appeared for that proceeding, and after leaving his sister’s home that morning, he was not seen or heard from again. The available official account does not identify where Parr intended to go when he left, whether he was traveling on foot or using a vehicle, or whether he had arranged to meet anyone. Those unanswered questions have left the hours following his departure as the central mystery in his disappearance.
Parr was described as a slender man who stood approximately 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighed about 95 pounds. He had a light or fair complexion, grey hair, and grey eyes. Investigators also documented two potentially important identifying features: a birthmark on his upper lip and a surgical scar on his right arm. When he was last seen, Parr was wearing a white-and-orange checkered shirt, brown wool pants, grey shoes, and a blue windbreaker described in official records as dark blue and light blue. He was also associated with eyeglasses and a watch in the clothing and features information maintained with his case. These details became especially important as investigators attempted to distinguish him from other people who might have resembled him and to provide the public with a description that could potentially trigger a memory of someone seen after he left the residence.
The circumstances surrounding Parr’s disappearance are especially troubling because there was an important event awaiting him the very next day. He was in the midst of divorce proceedings and was scheduled to attend court, yet he failed to appear. Official information does not state that investigators determined the divorce or upcoming hearing caused his disappearance, and no publicly available account identifies a suspect, reports that Parr was the victim of a crime, or establishes that he deliberately chose to disappear. There is likewise no public explanation for why he left his sister’s home that morning or where he might have gone afterward. What is firmly documented is a narrow sequence of events: he had been staying with his sister for months, he walked away from that residence at approximately 9:00 a.m. on May 25, and the court appearance expected the following day passed without him arriving.
The passage of time has made the limited information from that morning increasingly significant. Investigators recorded Parr’s physical characteristics, clothing, identifying marks, and personal circumstances in an effort to preserve the facts surrounding his disappearance. His case is maintained under reference number CDM-870526-006, and the official Canadian missing-person record continues to direct anyone with information to Sécurité Publique de Trois-Rivières Halte au Crime. No publicly available official account provides a confirmed sighting after the morning he left his sister’s residence, nor does it explain what occurred once he departed. In overview, Rene Parr was a 61-year-old man living with his sister in Trois-Rivières while going through a divorce when he left her home at about 9:00 a.m. on May 25, 1987; he was expected in court the following day but never appeared, and the available record offers no confirmed account of where he went or what happened to him after he walked away that morning.Last Seen: May 25, 1987
