Nicole Morin

Case background and investigation

Nicole Louise Morin, born April 1, 1977, lived with her family in a 20th-floor penthouse apartment at 627 The West Mall in Etobicoke, in the west end of Toronto, according to Please Bring Me Home and Wikipedia. On the morning of July 30, 1985, the eight-year-old had arranged to meet a friend in the lobby and go swimming in the building complex's pool.

According to Toronto police, as reported by CP24 and CBC News, she said goodbye to her mother and left the apartment at around 11 a.m. She never reached the lobby. Please Bring Me Home records that her friend buzzed the apartment about fifteen minutes later asking where she was, and that her mother, who ran a home daycare, initially assumed Nicole had gone on to the pool or was playing elsewhere in the complex. Police were called that afternoon. She was wearing a peach one-piece bathing suit, a green hairband and red canvas shoes and carried a plastic bag with a towel, blanket and clothes.

Toronto police formed a 20-member task force, which Wikipedia says remained active for nine months, and carried out what police have described as one of the most extensive searches in the force's history. No physical evidence explaining her disappearance has been found. A detective sergeant told CBC News in 2025 that after she entered the elevator it was as if she had simply vanished.

Over the years police and missing-children organizations have released age-progressed images and video re-enactments to keep the case in the public eye, according to Please Bring Me Home. Wikipedia notes that a $100,000 police reward for her safe return was offered in the years after she vanished.

On July 30, 2025, the 40th anniversary of her disappearance, Toronto police announced a reward of up to $50,000, valid for one year, for information leading to her location, and released a new age-progressed image showing how she might look at 48, CP24 and CBC News reported. A childhood friend who lived in the same building appealed at the news conference for anyone who suspects they may be Nicole to come forward. No arrest has been made and the case remains open with the Toronto Police Service.