Guelph Police seeking aid in solving decades-old missing persons cases
Posted Feb 5, 2025 06:38:53 AM.
Last Updated Feb 5, 2025 11:16:33 AM.
Police in Guelph are holding out hope for a handful of cold missing persons case files, and are asking the public to help look for four missing people who disappeared from the Royal City decades ago.
The oldest of these case files dates back to the 1970s.
In June 1975, Guelph resident John Zuern, 21, was at a hospital in London when he left without permission.
Reports indicate that Zuern made his way to Toronto and was living somewhere on the streets, likely in the area of Bloor Street West and Spadina Avenue where he was last seen five years later.
Zuern is described as white, with blue eyes, roughly 5’11”, and would be 71 years old today.
David Krueger lived in the Royal City in 1979 and was a recent University of Guelph graduate who ran into some financial troubles when his hot tub business was failing.
Three weeks before his disappearance, his mother passed away, and police indicate that he may have been depressed. Kreuger was last seen in April 1979.
Toronto Police located his vehicle at the Finch Avenue TTC Station in June of that same year.
Prior to his disappearance, Krueger spent time working in the oil fields out west in Alberta, and police believe that link may have some significance.
Krueger is described as white, 6’5″, and has a large distinctive port wine birthmark on his lower right leg. Today, he would be 73 years old.
In December 1983, Anne Mathews, 41, went missing from Homewood Health Centre on Delhi Street, a mental health treatment centre.
Mathews is said to have left the centre alone and on foot, and unfortunately, nobody but Mathews knows which direction she departed in.
She was wearing a red felt coat with fox fur on the hood, a sweater, and boots at the time of her disappearance.
Police at the time conducted a thorough ground search in areas around Guelph, but unfortunately, Mathews was never found
Today, she would be 82 years old.
In 2004, Wilfred ‘Wolf’ Bruder, 50, made a call at a payphone at Willow West Mall on Silvercreek Parkway and was never heard from or seen again.
Bruder is white, roughly 5’5″ with brown eyes and, most notably, is missing the ring finger on his left hand.
He would now be 70.
According to Guelph Police, resolving these cases could provide some much needed closure to their friends and families.
“Missing persons cases cause immense emotional distress for the families and friends of those involved,” said Detective Constable Kyle Winters of the Guelph Police Major Case Unit. “Resolving these cases – whether through locating the individuals or learning what happened to them – can provide much-needed closure for those left behind.”
