Please... Come Forward
“(I) plead with them... that little bit bit of information might be the piece we’re looking for. I can’t say how much it would mean to us for somebody to come forward.”
“What I want is for people is to go back to that week at Acadia University and on the ninth floor of Crowell Tower, and just go through the information you have in your head and take it apart and look at it from a different perspective,” she said in an interview at RCMP headquarters in Halifax, sitting next to a table of mementos from Matheson’s life.
MacDonald said she’s urging anyone who knows anything about her son’s disappearance to come forward.
“(I) plead with them... that little bit bit of information might be the piece we’re looking for. I can’t say how much it would mean to us for somebody to come forward.”
The past 20 years “have been like a roller coaster of highs and lows and highs and lows,” MacDonald said. “We get some information and we think ‘this is it and this is what’s going to be what solves the case,’ and then nothing. That has gone on regularly. There might be several years where there’s no information and then things are stuck and something will come out, but it will be the same.”
RCMP spokesman Cpl. Scott MacRae said police think some kind of foul play may have been involved in Matheson’s disappearance and hope the cash reward might prompt someone to come forward. “As the investigating police agency, we want this to hopefully generate information in the public because we truly feel there are people out there (who know something),” he said.
He said after 20 years people may be in a different place in their lives and inclined to share information they’ve kept to themselves or that they didn’t know at the time may be important.
“That one little tidbit of information may be what brings the police that much closer to finding answers for the family,” MacRae said.
Police had made another search in the Wolfville area six or seven years ago without finding any new clues, MacRae said.
When last seen, Matheson was wearing blue jeans, a purple T-shirt, blue coat, dark brown suede loafers a purpse ball cap. He wore a gold hoop earring in his left ear.
Anyone with information can call 1-888-710-9090. Those who come forward will be expected to provide their name and contact information and may be called to testify in court. All calls are recorded. More information on the case can be found at www.gov.ns.ca/just.