Brantford police have scheduled a news conference Wednesday morning to provide an update in their investigation of the 1983 disappearance of Mary Hammond.
Police said representatives of Hammond’s family will attend.
In September 2020, police released photos of four men believed to have knowledge of Hammond’s disappearance in Brantford on Sept. 8, 1983. Police were seeking to identify the men.
On the morning she disappeared, Hammond was scheduled to work the morning shift at the former Buns Master Bakery, where she had worked for about one year. She walked north on Park Road North, now Wayne Gretzky Parkway, and passed the Massey-Ferguson factory and cut across the field towards the rear of the bakery. At about 4 am, a co-worker called Hammond’s husband asking why she had not arrived at work.
Hammond’s footprints were followed to the property line at the rear of the bakery and to a point where she cut across a field. The footprints then disappeared.
Evidence at the scene included some items from her lunch: a cup, a dish and a half-eaten apple. One of Hammond’s white sockettes and a small quantity of blood were located in an area of the field.
At the time of her disappearance, Hammond was 25, 5-foot-10 with long straight reddish-brown hair, brown eyes and a fair complexion. She was last seen wearing a blue, mauve and red lumber jacket, blue jeans, a yellow T-shirt and white Adidas running shoes with a silver stripe.
More information about Hammond’s disappearance also can be found on the police website’s Cold Case Files at www.brantfordpolice.ca.