“She was only 19 when she disappeared, but she had already accomplished so much.”Īfter she finished high school, Williams took stenography courses and got a job as a secretary at a law office in Hamilton. “Aunt Eileen is still talked about most days among our family members, even sixty years after she was last seen,” said her family. While Williams’ immediate family members, including her siblings, have all passed on, she still has nieces, nephews and other relatives who still remember her fondly. “Her father followed two years later – they never got the answers for what happened to their daughter.”Įileen Williams in seen in this photo from her childhood. “Eileen's mother passed away the following year - some say of a broken heart,” said her family. Her disappearance is considered suspicious, but no arrests have ever been made. Investigators note that Williams’ return plane ticket to Hamilton was never used and her bank account remained untouched for several years, until it was turned over to her surviving relatives. “There are many people here who still remember the search parties.” “It was a traumatic time for the whole community,” they said. Police say extensive searches were conducted in the weeks and months after Williams disappeared.Īccording to her family, more than 150 volunteers joined the search, scouring the area from Montague to Beach Point, including a swampy area outside of Montague. “Her sister, Esther, was expecting a baby at the time and family members recall she was so upset they were concerned about her health as well.” “The days, weeks, and months that followed were incredibly difficult on all of Eileen's family and friends,” said her family in a statement. They reported her missing to the Montague RCMP the following day and an investigation was launched. However, they grew worried when she failed to return home the next day, and they started to look for her. When Williams failed to return home that night, her family assumed she had stayed with her friends. Her family believes she may have been trying to hitchhike back home to Beach Point. Police say she was last seen just outside Montague, on the road that leads to Murray River and Beach Point, around 7 p.m. Investigators believe Williams was considering going to a party in Montague the night she disappeared. She told Pearle that she would return to Beach Point if she didn’t end up staying with her friends. They say Williams had planned to do some errands and visit some friends from high school. THE DAY SHE DISAPPEAREDĪccording to a statement from her family, Williams’ sister-in-law, Pearle, drove her to Montague and dropped her off at the post office on Aug.
Police say she disappeared during one of her annual trips home and was never seen or heard from again. Williams eventually moved to Hamilton, Ont., but she would come home to P.E.I. The youngest of seven siblings, the teen grew up in Beach Point, P.E.I., located roughly 30 kilometres southeast of Montague, P.E.I. The 19-year-old woman was last seen on Aug.
"We want people to know that Eileen was a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a cousin and a friend - not a day goes by that we don't think about her." "We know that time is not on our side, and that anyone who knows what happened to Eileen may not be around much longer," said her family in a statement released this week. Now, Williams’ family has teamed up with a retiring RCMP officer in the hopes of finding new information that could help solve one of Prince Edward Island’s oldest cold cases. The missing woman’s family is still trying to answer that question, 60 years after she disappeared without a trace on Prince Edward Island.
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