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You are here: Home / Cold Case News / Mary Emma Bisenthal Hammond: update

Mary Emma Bisenthal Hammond: update

September 7, 2020 By Alice

Mary Emma Hammond Grid AdS
Mary Emma Hammond Grid AdS

Thanks to one of my readers we get this update in the case of Mary Emma Bisenthal Hammond. Brantford Police is asking for your help. Can you identify and/or locate any of the four unknown persons in the pictures below?

These are previously unreleased photographs. 

Investigators would like to speak with the unidentified persons regarding any information they may be able to provide related to the disappearance of Mary Emma Bisenthal Hammond.

Brantford Police Unidentified Person #1
Brantford Police Unidentified Person #1
The four unidentified persons

The unidentified persons are believed to have ties to the Hungarian/Ukrainian/Bosnian/Polish community in and around the time of Hammond’s disappearance.

Her whereabouts are still unknown.

Brantford Police Unidentified Person #2
Brantford Police Unidentified Person #2

These are the pictures from the Brantford Police website. Please watch examine them there if these here are too small.

The Case

On September 8, 1983 Mary Emma Bisenthal Hammond left her home on Elgin St., Brantford, Ontario, Canada around 3:30 am. That morning, she worked the early morning shift at Buns Master Bakery. She had been employed there for about one year.

Brantford Police Unidentified Person #3
Brantford Police Unidentified Person #3

Mary walked “north on Park Road North (now Wayne Gretzky Parkway) she passed the Massey-Ferguson factory and cut across the field towards the rear of the bakery.” She never arrived.

Authorities followed Mary’s footprints to the property line at the rear of the bakery and the point where Mary would cut across the field. And then she was gone. Most likely, Mary got into a car. However, she was very close to work so why bother?

Brantford Police Unidentified Person #4
Brantford Police Unidentified Person #4

There is the possibility that she was hit by a car. She may have been lifted into that car to be taken to a hospital but I assume that all medical facilities in the area were checked.

Another possibility is that Mary died while enroute to a medical facility and was taken to be buried somewhere. Kidnapping remains another option. However, nobody ever sought contact with the family.

Contact Information

If you have any information regarding Mary Emma Bisenthal Hammond’s disappearance, please call the Mary Hammond tip line to leave a voicemail for investigators at 519-756-0113 ext. 2800, or contact them by email at [email protected] The Incident Report Number is #83-24791.

Tipsters who wish to remain anonymous should contact Brant- Brantford Crime Stoppers at 519-750-8477 or 1-800-222-8477.

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Filed Under: Cold Case News, Missing Persons Tagged With: Canada, Mary Emma Bisenthal Hammond, Missing Person, Ontario

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