What happened to two men who left on a fishing trip 57 years ago and never returned home?
That’s the question Ontario Provincial Police are hoping to answer.
Neil Wormsbecker, 29, and Hank Englebertus Halff, 30, left for their outing on Oct. 22, 1967.
The men both lived in Stratford, Ont. at the time.
“They went out fishing from Goderich,” said OPP Const. Craig Soldan. “There was a storm that came in. They were last seen just south of Goderich, out in Lake Huron fishing.”
Their boat was eventually found, but Wormsbecker and Halff were never seen again.
The Ontario Center for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains and the National Missing Persons DNA program are now hoping to close the decades-old case.
And they already have their first clue.
“They have DNA that’s on file from found human remains that have been located in Lake Huron,” Soldan explained. “They’ve asked us to see if we can obtain …