2            THE FREE PRESS U1TS0LVEL CRIUES MARCH 11, 2001
Jack family still missing
                     Last seen in August 1989
  It is the only case of its kind in Canada; the disappearance of an entire family.
    On August 1, 1989, Ronald Jack was seen at First Litre Pub with a Caucasian male. They left together. A relative later told police, the man had offered he and his wife, Doreen, jobs at either a logging camp or at a ranch.
    At 1:30 a.m., August 2, 1989, at the Bednesti Clu-culz Lake area, Ronald phones his mother to give her the goods news. He told her they would be gone for 10 days to two weeks. They were packing up some their belongings and those of their two boys, nine-year-old Russell and four-year-old Ryan. By all accounts, it appeared the family had every intention of returning to their home on Strathcona Avenue, at some point.
    They have not been seen or heard from again.
    On January 28, 1996, around 8:33 in the morn-
  ing, an unidentified man called the Vanderhoof RCMP detachment and was patched through to the Prince George police dispatch. The voice said, “The Jack family are buried at the south end of Gordie’s ranch." The call, it was discovered, was placed from the Stoney Creek area.
     A tape of the call was sent to the University of British Columbia for analysis. The analysis revealed nothing of value to the investigation. There had been a party at the residence where the call had originated on the evening prior, as police had been called to a complaint of a disturbance. However, interviews of party-goers revealed nothing.
     According to investigators, one of three things could have happened: foul play, the family simply went off the road and have not been discovered, or they left voluntarily. They are placing greater emphasis, however, on the first option.
Pictured here are Doreen Ann and Ryan Jack (above), Ronald Paul Jack (upper right) and Russel Jack (bottom right).
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