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Without a Trace

 
 

Michael Joseph Linklater, age 44 at time of disappearance, aboriginal male, born 1959, brown eyes & hair, 66 inches tall, 158 pounds, medium build, medium complexion. Photo courtesy of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

Michael Joseph Linklater of Moosonee, Ontario, Canada was last seen on July 13, 2003.

A skilled hunter, trapper, and fisherman, Michael was staying with his father and brother at their remote bush camp along the Abitibi River, downstream of New Post Creek Falls, and some 95 kilometers upstream of the Moose River Estuary on the Arctic Ocean's James Bay, off Lower Hudson Bay.

Michael reportedly walked out their camp around 6:00 am, never to be seen again.


14-Day Search

 
  Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)
   
 
  Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR)
   
 
  Attawapiskat First Nation

Despite an extensive, 14-day ground and air search of several 100 square kilometers of dense bush, no trace of Michael Joseph has ever been found.

The nearly 50-strong search party included:

  • Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers
  • Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) officers
  • 9 members of the OPP's elite Emergency Response Team (ERT)
  • 2 OPP K-9 teams
  • 1 OPP helicopter
  • 1 MNR helicopter
  • 21 Attawapiskat First Nation elders and bush veterans who had to be flown in—7 at a time, from the isolated village of Attawapiskat, up the roadless coast of James Bay from Moosonee—before they could board the Polar Bear Express bush train, which dropped them in the search area

In the News

July 15, 2003, The Daily Press (Timmins, Ontario, Canada)  
     
July 18, 2003, The Daily Press (Timmins, Ontario, Canada)  
     
July 28, 2003, The Daily Press (Timmins, Ontario, Canada)  
     

Missing-Person Poster

 
  Michael Linklater's social-media-friendly missing-person poster

To download a social-media-friendly missing-person poster for Michael Linklater, click here, and then right click on the image to save it to your computer, or drag it onto your desktop.


Social Media

 
  Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

The Linklater missing-person case is featured on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Canada's Missing Web site


Report a Tip

Report a tip to the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)

  • Phone: 1.888.310.1122
 
    Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)
     

Report an anonymous tip via Crime Stoppers Ontario, Canada

  • Phone: 1.800.222.8477
  • Internet: Web Tips
 
    Crime Stoppers Ontario, Canada

 


Cartography

 
   
 

Geo-Magnetic Compass beta

Quadrangle list

  • 1:1,000,000 Backroad Mapbook — Northeastern Ontario, 4th Edition: Moosonee/Moose Factory (page 95), Backroad Mapbooks
  • 1:250,000 Moosonee, Ontario (42-P, Edition 2, 1992) Energy, Mines, and Resources, Canada
  • 1:250,000 Moose River, Ontario (42-I, Edition 2, 1989) Energy, Mines, and Resources, Canada
  • 1:50,000 Ranoke, Ontario (42 I/15, Edition 1, 1954-55 [1970]), Energy, Mines, and Resources, Canada
  • 1:50,000 Picket Creek, Ontario (42 I/12, Edition 1, 1954-55 [1970]) Energy, Mines, and Resources, Canada
  • 1:50,000 Onakawana, Ontario (42 I/11, Edition 1, 1954-55 [1970]) Energy, Mines, and Resources, Canada

Thank you for taking the time to visit Michael Linklaters's missing-person Web site.

Team MibSAR

 
   
 

Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue (MibSAR),
Long Range Special
Operations Group (LRSOG)
www.MibSAR.com
Marquette, Michigan
United States

   
 
   
 

The founder of Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue (MibSAR), Michael Neiger of Marquette, Michigan is the lead investigator with MibSAR's Long Range Special Operations Group (LRSOG)

E-mail Michael Neiger

A 26-year veteran Detective/Sergeant with the Michigan State Police (MSP), Michael holds a Ph.D. from Wayne State University, and is certified by the National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR) as a SAR Tech I and SAR Tech Field Team Leader (FTL), the top two, field-deployable, search-and-rescue certifications offered by NASAR.

   
 

The design and hosting of this missing-person web site, and associated social-media-friendly graphics, are courtesy of Michael Neiger — Lead Investigator with Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue (MibSAR).

MibSAR is a small, Long Range Special Operations Group (LRSOG) based along the south shore of Lake Superior in Marquette, Michigan. LRSOG search-and-recovery operators are dedicated to investigating select unsolved missing-person cases and homicide cold cases in the remote bush between the Great Lakes in northern Michigan, USA, and the Arctic Ocean’s Lower Hudson Bay in Ontario, Canada.

 

MibSAR is a FEMA NIMS ICS document- compliant SAR Team

 

An independent, volunteer investigator, Michael Neiger holds, or has held, memberships in the following professional organizations:

National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR)
 
International Society of Professional Trackers (ISPT)
 
International Association of Cold Case Investigators (IACCI)
 
International Crime Scene Investigators Association (ICSIA)
 
International Homicide Investigators Association (IHIA)
 
American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)
 
International Association for Identification (IAI)
 
All of Michael Neiger's searches, investigations, work products, and other services
are provided free of charge to victims, their families, and law enforcement agencies.

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