Maureen was eight years old when she went missing on July 30, 1985. She was last seen around 11am.  that day at her home at 627 The West Mall.  She left her top floor unit to go swimming with a friend and has not been seen since.  Today, Nicole would be 45 years old.
Brett Robinson, of Please Bring Me Home (PBMH), said about two years ago he started talking to a woman who believes she saw Nicole with a man she knew in a western park on the day she disappeared.
The alleged witness, who is now in her early 50s but was about 12 years old at the time, declined to speak to the media at this time.
“This person she identified allegedly sexually assaulted her.  There’s a lot of pain, a lot of trauma there,” said Robinson, who visited the undisclosed green space late last month.
Robinson said his organization decided to investigate the park after being unable to “disappear” this person from being at that unnamed location at the time the witness indicated.
“Responsible research is about eliminating people, and we couldn’t do that in this case, so we decided to investigate this park with cadaver dogs,” he told CP24.
“It made sense that in theory that could have happened.”
Robinson said they expect sweeping the west park, which is “a few kilometers” from Nicole’s apartment building, to take two to three hours.
“If we get any kind of hit, we will notify the police immediately,” he said, noting that PBMH has a policy of sharing all tips it receives with the police unless otherwise requested.
Toronto police said a previous exhumation for Nicole’s remains took place “during the (Nicole Morin) investigation,” but did not confirm the location or provide other details.
Spokesman Kevin Masterman said investigators are looking into whether there are links in this case to the late Scarborough resident Calvin Hoover, who was identified through DNA as the person who kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed nine-year-old Christine Jessop.
Like Nicole, Christine was just a child when she disappeared from Queensville, Ont.  home on October 3, 1984. She disappeared just 10 months before Nicole was last seen.  Christine’s body was found dumped in a wooded area in County Durham three months later.  Nicole’s remains, however, were never found.
Masterman said Toronto police “will follow up on any leads or evidence,” particularly those that may implicate Hoover.
“At this time, there is no evidence that (he) is involved in (Nicole’s) disappearance,” he told CP24.
Over the years, police have received dozens of tips about Nicole’s disappearance.  They have issued several news releases and made several appeals, but she is still being ignored.
At the time of her disappearance, Nicole was described as white, 4 feet tall and 55 pounds with straight shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes and a birthmark on her upper right forehead.  An updated artist rendering of what it might look like today can be found here.