Name: Holly Anne Painter
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: June 26, 1995
Location Last Seen: East York, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth: February 2, 1977
Age: 18 years old
Race: Unknown
Gender: Female
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 115 lbs
Hair Color: Dark brown, long, slightly curly
Eye Color: Brown
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Slender build; olive complexion. Needs glasses for distance. Fractured left leg 8 years prior to disappearance; Medical Information: Asthma; Fingerprints available
Dentals: Available. Perfect teeth, braces had just come off prior to disappearance.
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown
Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: 3 hoop earrings in each ear
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Holly was last seen in the vicinity of Dawes Road and Donora Road in Toronto at approximately 19.00 on the evening of June 26, 1995.
She supposedly ran from a friend's brown Ford Bronco as it stopped for a light at Warden and Kingston Road.
Holly was boarding in a corner house on Dawes Road north of Danforth Avenue in East York. She was adopted at about three by the Painters', a Scarborough couple who served as foster parents off and on since she was an infant.
By June 1995, Holly had lived on her own for about a year and was in Grade 10. She was hired for summer work at Save the Rouge Valley System, a local environmental group, after her successful six-month co-op experience there.
The week she vanished, Holly was about to start a rock-climbing course. On June 26, she phoned Mrs. Painter at 19.00, asking her for a ride to the SRVS office on McCowan Road to pick up her bank card. Holly was anxious to retrieve the card so she could buy climbing shoes that evening. Then Holly said she no longer needed a lift.
Police believe Holly was driven to the office by a male friend. They returned to her home with a female friend. The male friend later told police there was an argument in the home's basement and Holly hit her female friend. According to this, they were on the way to the Painter house near Midland and St. Clair avenues, when the Bronco stopped at a light and Holly vanished.
Holly wasn't reported missing until a couple of weeks later.
Holly's bank card was used in Cheektowaga, N.Y., soon after she disappeared. The male friend, who remains a person of interest, later admitted to police that he used the card in New York State. Foul play is suspected.
Agency Name: Toronto Police Service
Agency Contact Person: Homicide Division
Agency Phone Number: 416-808-7400
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 95M 4820-54
Missing Children Society of Canada
Child Find Canada
The Mirror Guardian
Added: Prior to 2011; Last Updated: 05-18-2022 - By: Htmlcnvtr
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** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
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