Thunder Bay Police Service calls missing person case 'suspicious,' as family pleads for answers

Sarah Law · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 12, 2025 2:07 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

It's been astir 5 months since Randall Jack was past successful interaction with his family, and the Thunder Bay Police Service (TBPS) is present considering the lawsuit to beryllium suspicious.

The 32-year-old past spoke with relatives successful October 2024 and was reported missing connected Nov. 24, 2024. 

"This is wholly retired of quality for him not to [have] immoderate benignant of communication. There's been nary footprints near by him done banking, compartment telephone records oregon thing similar that, and that is wherefore we're deeming [the case] arsenic suspicious astatine this point," said Det. Const. Jeff Saunders, missing idiosyncratic co-ordinator for the TBPS.

Jack's household held a media league extracurricular the TBPS presumption Wednesday greeting — having held a akin lawsuit 2 months earlier — to entreaty to the nationalist for immoderate accusation that could assistance bring him home.

"I'm hopeless to find my son. I request him home. I can't slumber astatine night, I'm truthful stressed out," said Jack's mother, Sandra Jack. 

"I interest of proceeding that sound astatine the doorway each nighttime that thing atrocious [has happened], thing I don't wanna hear."

Jack is simply a subordinate of Big Grassy River First Nation who has been surviving successful the northwestern Ontario metropolis for 20 years. He is described arsenic six feet gangly with a bladed build, abbreviated achromatic hair, brownish eyes and a just complexion.

Police accidental helium has 2 children, ages 7 and 12, that helium has not seen since September 2024. His household has go progressively acrophobic for his well-being.

Jack's disappearance has been listed connected the RCMP's nationalist missing persons page.

"All his accusation is being shared nationally and provincially with each different constabulary agencies, and we're appealing for immoderate benignant of accusation that could pb to the whereabouts of Randall and bring immoderate answers for the family," Saunders said.

The TBPS large crimes portion is progressive successful the investigation, moving alongside missing persons investigators.

'He could beryllium anywhere'

The TBPS doesn't person a past known sighting of Jack, which has made it hard for investigators to absorption their efforts oregon behaviour ceremonial searches, said Saunders.

He's known to predominant the Blucher-Picton Avenue country connected the northbound broadside of municipality and is well-liked successful the neighbourhood, "but helium could beryllium anywhere."

"We cognize determination are radical retired determination that person answers, and passim the investigation, determination are radical that we inactive privation to speech to and get backmost to," Saunders said.

"We're hoping that done this 2nd plea to the nationalist that idiosyncratic volition travel forward."

People are encouraged to cheque immoderate video surveillance footage they person successful the Blucher-Picton Avenue area, and to interaction investigators straight with immoderate accusation they person astatine 807-684-1200. Tips tin besides beryllium submitted anonymously done Crime Stoppers astatine 1-800-222-8477 oregon online astatine www.p3tips.com.

"If anybody knows oregon has seen him, delight scope retired due to the fact that we each miss him, and it's conscionable the not knowing is the hardest," said Jack's aunt, Christa Jack. "Five months is mode excessively long."