Kimberly Ann McAndrew - August 12, 1989 - Age 19 - Missing - Halifax, NS

[Desespere]

http://www.halifax.ca/Police/MissingPersons/Info/McAndrewKimberly.html

Kimberly Ann McAndrew - Posted
Age: 19
DOB: 1970/01/17
Missing
Date last seen: August 12, 1989
Location last seen: Halifax, NS

Kimberly Ann McAndrew - August 12, 1989 - Age 19 - Missing - Halifax - The 19-year-old vanished from a busy parking lot on Quinpool Road after leaving work at the Canadian Tire store a little early. Police have never been able to figure out what happened to McAndrew or how she left the parking lot. Slight scar on bridge of nose. Case number: 7020-U

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[kindheart]

Kimberly McAndrew, Halifax

On August 12, 1989, 19-year-old Kimberly McAndrew punched the clock at 4:21 p.m., walked out the back door of the Canadian Tire store on Quinpool Road in Halifax and vanished.

A happy, well-adjusted Dalhousie University undergrad, Kimberly was working for the summer as a cashier at the store. Her sister, her sister?s boyfriend and Kimberly?s boyfriend were to pick her up when she finished work at five.

But it was a quiet day at the store, and Kimberly?s supervisor told her that she could punch out early. It wouldn?t have been unusual for Kimberly to walk home on such a beautiful afternoon. The store was about a 15-minute walk from the apartment where she lived with her two sisters.

When they left to pick her up, Kimberly?s sister and friends drove the same route to the store that she would have taken had she walked home. There was no sign of her.

Intelligent, outgoing, well liked at work, Kimberly was her usual upbeat self the day she went missing. Her father, Cyril, a retired RCMP officer, says that she longed to get the silver braces removed from her teeth. She would never have missed the appointment with her dentist that was to have taken place three days after she disappeared.

Former Halifax police Const. Dave MacDonald, who worked on the case, says he thinks of Kimberly often. ?I was an officer for 30 years, the last 12 in the major crimes unit, and never has a case haunted me like this one,? he says.

Sgt. Dave Worrell took over the case in 1999, shortly before MacDonald retired. He says police have received hundreds of tips, investigated alleged sightings, conducted hundreds of interviews and administered several polygraph tests. ?There is at least one person out there who knows what happened,? he says. ?This case is very much ongoing.?

For Cyril McAndrew, coping with his daughter?s disappearance is as difficult today as it was more than 12 years ago. ?Kimberly was abducted?there?s no other explanation. Her bank account was never touched, and her clothes weren?t taken from her home.?

Cyril and his wife, Audrey, live for the day someone finds the strength to tell the truth. And they still have hope. ?Miracles happen,? Audrey says.

http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/2002/04/help_us.html

[Chris]

Wonder if she took a ride from someone she knew? Someone who had a crush on her or something?

[capeheart]

I also remember this matter quite well about Kimberly, just a big mystery that seems so unreal to happen in broad daylight. There was such a short time frame here for her to go missing.  Somebody picked her up that knew her, for sure.  Everything should be gone over again in this matter, it is likely a friend that she knew, a neighbour right in her own neighbourhood or someone that lived in the same apartment building as she did. This may not have been planned, a known person  maybe under the influrence of drugs or alcohol, which she may not have known, picked her up and this person took advantage of her. Someone in that area has to know something about this.  It is such a long time and no answers, the family has to be devastated.  They are in my thoughts whenever I hear about this and it is brought up.  God bless all.

[whispersoftly]

i am adding the addy to the halifax police site about her case because for some reason when  click on the other one it doesnt work
http://www.halifax.ca/Police//MissingPersons/missinginfo.asp?VictimID=159
 as well i will copy and paste the info here because i want to make a comment on a certain line
Incident#: 06-99031

Date:8/12/1989

D.O.B.:1/17/70

Location: Quinpool Road, Central

Kimberly has been missing since August 12, 1989. At 16:20 hours, she left her place of employment, Canadian Tire Ltd. at 6203 Quinpool Rd. in Halifax, where she was employed as a cashier.

Details:
She was last seen at the Gardenia Flower Shop in Penhorn Mall in Dartmouth. She was identified by an employee at the flower shop as having bought a balloon and a rose. At the time of her disappearance, she was wearing pleated, ankle-length navy cotton slacks with slash pockets in front and one pocket in the back, a white, short-sleeved "Esprit" t-shirt with red and green squares, a navy cotton oversize cardigan, and jade green flat-heeled slip-on loafers. The police have conducted hundreds of interviews, several polygraph tests, and have even followed tips from psychics who contacted the department.

being only 5 when this happened and seeing it on the news this story has made a big impact on me. for years I thought about 'the canadian tire girl' and prayed that she would be found, and after seeing the store firsthand many years later all i could think of is, how on a busy street like this could someone not have observed something? I am always looking around and being aware of my envronment no matter where i am. Perhaps all the reading i have done about crime gives me a 'leg up' on such situations. But it's been TWENTY years this august.surely friendships/allegiances have changed and someone must be willing to talk should the right time come up. I think that this august 12th a candle light vigil should be held at 6203 quinpool road in her memory and a big splash in the news, to perhaps work on someone conscience, or tug at the heartstrings of someone who is keeping they're mouth tightly closed.maybe possibly have a press conference too to refresh people's mind and re-question everyone involved. in twenty years im sure stories have changed and lies have been forgotten, as that works in MANY cases.

in the article i copied of the HRP website I notice that
She was last seen at the Gardenia Flower Shop in Penhorn Mall in Dartmouth. She was identified by an employee at the flower shop as having bought a balloon and a rose

has the significance of this been really looked into...  and if so maybe it needs to be looked into again. were bus driver's / cabbies in that area questioned? how did she get there?what happened in that time frame?  a new set of eyes need to look at this case.  I surely hope that the family gets some closure, twenty years is a long time to be left wondering and searching a sea of faces wondering if she's in there somewhere and if so why she left. I know that would run through my mind. it's quite sad

[lostlinganer]

usually grab a rose and balloon for a special person's birthday...or someone in hospital.  .....there goes my head with mention of hospital..... I developed some bad ideas about any thugs lurking or doing business in the market of body parts; and where they would hang out to pick a victim. ....I'll let that one go for now.

[capeheart]

I understood the balloon and the flower were for her boyfriends birthday, it seems that was in an earlier report quite some time ago. I do not know how far the Penhorn Mall is from Can Tire? It has been years since I have been in Halifax. I always felt that Kimberly had accepted a drive from someone she knew. I always felt that, because it was broad daylight. I am sure she would have cried out unless someone abducted her in a van, it would I think have to be more then one person. Such a short period of time to go missing in and nobody saw anything. Very scary for anyone living in Halifax. Now there is the Paula Gallant case, a different scenario because her body was found, but just as mysterious why nobody has come forward with information. Just keep on talking about these cases and I am sure something will come out of the woodwork.

[mauvelilac]

You Know I've always wondered about Jonathon Yeo in this case. He was from the Maritimes, living in Ontario when he kidnapped Nina De Villieres(sp) off a university campus I believe outside of Toronto. He was on his way back east when he dumped Nina's body in a culvert off the 401 just outside Napanee . He stayed in the Maritimes for awhile, headed back to Ontario and because he was a suspect in more than Nina's murders, there was a standoff between him and police in Hamilton which culminated in his death. I don't remember, I think he shot himself, but the police might have. I'm unclear on that.
So I'm wondering if he could be a suspect in Kimberly's disappearance and dumped her on his way back to Ontario on one of his many trips home. Just a thought.

[Desespere]

Even though he was on the drug squad at the time McAndrew disappeared, Martin has since made the case his own. He's followed every lead; personally re-interviewed dozens of those who gave statements early on to see if they remembered something else; talked with the retired cops who worked the case in the beginning; met with psychics; followed dead-end rumours that Kimberly had been forced into prostitution in Toronto or even—as recently as two years ago—a rumour that she was alive and well and living in upstate New York; interrogated a Halifax man serving time in a British Columbia prison as a dangerous sexual offender; questioned other inmates who claimed to know where her body was buried; scoured Sir Sandford Flemming Park for three days on one tip; even, pursuing another lead, donned a hard hat and rubber boots and climbed six metres down a dirty wet well shaft in Point Pleasant Park so he could scoop up some tiny bone fragments that turned out not be McAndrew's.

Martin believes he knows what happened to McAndrew. "Call it an educated theory, based on her victimology, geography, the timing, the activities of a particular person. But…" He stops, considers. "You want to solve it for the families. I've always tried to be involved with the families of the victims. It's hardest for them, dealing with the void. You want to give them peace, some closure even if it's only learning what happened…. It's hardest for me when the families are nice to you, when they're appreciative of what you're trying to do, thankful for keeping them informed. Like the McAndrews. And the MacCulloughs."

This is from a book I think about the investigator "Martin" he has a lot of involvement with the unsolved cases in Halifax, NS. The above I thought was interesting to put here because it shows the types of things this one investigator has done to try and bring Kimberly Ann home.

http://www.stephenkimber.com/blog.php?cid=42

[Desespere]

Incident #:
 06-99031   
Incident Date:
 August 12, 1989   
Date of Birth:
 January 17, 1970   
Location: Quinpool Road, Halifax,

Nova Scotia
   
 
The Integrated HRP/RCMP Major Crime Unit is seeking the public's assistance in locating Kimberly Ann McAndrew.
 
 
On August 12, 1989 at 4:20 p.m. Kimberly McAndrew left her place of employment, Canadian Tire Ltd. at 6203 Quinpool Rd. in Halifax, where she was employed as a cashier. She was last seen at the Gardenia Flower Shop in Penhorn Mall in Dartmouth where she was identified as having bought a balloon and a rose. At the time of her disappearance, she was wearing pleated, ankle-length navy cotton slacks with slash pockets in front and one pocket in the back, a white, short-sleeved "Esprit" t-shirt with red and green squares, a navy cotton oversize cardigan, and jade green flat-heeled slip-on loafers.

Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Kimberly, or anyone who may have seen her is asked to call Police at 490-5016.
 
This is from the link at the very top, has been updated to add a little more information. Whole site is different from early 2007.

[capeheart]

Everytime I reread the information about Kimberly, it is mindboggling even today. August, at that hour of the day it is like noon time. I mean it doesn't get dark until 9:30 in the summer. I just find it so hard to believe that she just dropped out of site. I feel she had to be abducted in the parking lot, but I do not believe it was anyone from Halifax. If it was a stranger, it was someone from over the boarder or another province that was vacationing here in Nova Scotia that took her. Or she accepted a drive with a person she knew from her neighbourhood. But if she knew her friends were meeting her after work, why would she take a drive willingly. If her plans were to meet with her friends, she would not take a drive. So it all points to abduction. You know the man that murdered all the children out west, Clifford Olsen, well he was here in Cape Breton in Sydney for a period of time. He tried to abduct someone here in Sydney. When I saw his face on TV, I said, I saw that guy before and one of the lawyer's here in Sydney told me, yes, he used to live here for a period of time. So in the summer months, we get tourists from all over the world here in Nova Scotia. Way down here in little old Cape Breton, they come from everywhere. So people should be vigilent, because some of these murders may be from someone just passing through.

[Chris]

I got this stunning message via the contact form on the site. Does anyone know if Shannon Murrin was in Nova Sctiia then?
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In 1991 I was a inmate in Springhill Institution in Nova Scotia. The missing persons poster for Kimberly Ann Mcandrew was posted on the trophy case in the gym. I use to play badminton with Shannon Murrin. I honestly remember Murrin telling me he knew what happen to Kimberly. He never said he took her but for 20+ plus years I wondered what he ment. And of course when the Mindy Tran case was linked to Murrin I was even more motivated to find out who the person was in that wanted poster. I did a search for missing persons and when I saw Kimberlys picture I knew she was the one on that poster. Did he take her. I don't know for sure but I hope this is a lead that can be followed up and lead to the person responsible for Kimberlys dissapperance.

Thanks to the person who sent that in

[chet]

i'm not sure Chris, but I do recall his name being thrown out in regards to Kimberly's case in the past.

i wonder if the detective Tom Martin, referenced above in a posting by Des(#8 I think) in a piece written by Steven Kimber should be alerted to this. Maybe this person who posted could pass along details...? Confirm a few things?

[D1]

Amazing how this guys name keeps popping up. Time after time from one end of the country to the other he is named as either a suspect or a POI for multiple murders of girls around this same age.

The cop in this case "Martin" seems to have a specific suspect in mind. Maybe something here could be of help to him?

A time line of sorts for Murrin's whereabouts can be extrapolated from the information at http://mindytran.com/murrinscrimes.htm

The Canadian Parole board would have this info if Martin made the request.

[peripeteia]

Doesn't seem unreasonable to notify Det.Tommy Martin and Steven Kimber about Murrin, he doesn't sound like a nice guy.

I'm having trouble knowing why Kimberly went to the Penhorn Mall, that is a long long way from Quinpool Road, unless her boyfriend lived there, I thought she lived near her place of employment.  Where Carla Stricklands' body was found is not all that far away from Penhorn Mall.

I had thought that Andrew Paul Johnson was a person of interest in this case, he is presently incarcerated in British Columbia as a dangerous offender, at the time of Kimberly's disappearance, he was a resident of the Halifax area.