Family desperate for answers weeks after Mississauga dad vanishes without a trace

EDITOR’S NOTE: The family of Terry Jackman told Global News his body had been found and police do not suspect foul play

For Sarah Goncalves, the hardest part of her boyfriend’s disappearance in Mississauga more than a month ago is not knowing what happened – and what to tell their two-year-old son Caleb.

“It’s very tough for me because I have all this and then I also have to watch our son,” she told Global News Tuesday. “It breaks my heart because my son actually says to me almost every day, ‘Miss daddy.'”

Terry Jackman, 34, disappeared without a trace on Aug. 31 after walking away from his work site at a local tree service, near Cawthra Road and Lakeshore Road East, on his lunch break around 12:20 p.m.

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Goncalves, Jackman’s girlfriend of three years, says she is desperate for answers and is doing everything she can to help police locate him.

“I’m not doing good at all,” she told Global News Tuesday. “I’m trying the best I can to do anything I possibly can.”

Goncalves created a Facebook group to bring together members of the community to help look for Jackman Wednesday night.

“The only thing I can only really do at this point is keep trying to get some searches going and see if anybody has seen him or heard anything just to know he’s OK at least,” she said.

“I’ve actually gotten a lot of messages on Facebook from friends of his, old friends of his, even from when he went to high school — so a lot of people wanting to help. That’s why I organized that search.”

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Goncalves said she won’t stop until she finds something because Jackman has never done anything like this before.

“Nothing. Nobody’s heard, nobody’s seen, it’s very strange,” Goncalves said, adding the two had an argument shortly before his disappearance but she did not think it was the reason he vanished.

“We always make up.”

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Jackman, who is also the father to another six-year-old boy with another woman, has not reached out to friends or family since his disappearance and police said it was “unusual” for him to be out of contact for this long.

He is described by police as a white male, standing 5’7″ tall, 130 pounds with a thin build. He has short brown hair, hazel eyes, is possibly unshaven and was last seen wearing a dark-coloured T-shirt, dark green pants and beige steel-toed boots.

Police have searched the area where Jackman went missing with the help of K9 units but have turned up nothing.

Family and friends had also conducted their own searches, putting up fliers in the area and asking local residents for information.

But Goncalves said she and her family have grown “extremely worried” as time goes on.

In the meantime, she has a simple message for Jackman:

“I love you and I miss you and I really want you home.”