VANCOUVER – One of Vancouver’s five remaining unsolved missing persons cases from 2011 has been solved after police turned to the public for help last week.
Daniel Holt, 29, was found living in another community outside of Metro Vancouver, police said Monday.
He was using a different name and cited ‘personal reasons’ for the move.
“His photo was recognized by someone who saw the television coverage of Friday’s press conference,” Vancouver police Const. Lindsey Houghton said in a news release. The person called their local police station which contacted Holt, and Holt confirmed it was him.
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Holt had worked for a software company in Victoria in the past, and had spent time living on a boat moored in North Vancouver. He was reported missing by his mother on Sept. 12.
Of more than 3,700 missing persons cases from 2011 in Vancouver, only four remain unsolved – all of them are young men between 19 and 25.
Still missing are Permadech Tatti, 21; Mitchell Gallivan, 19; Brian Mbaruk, 20; and Matthew Huszar, 25.
Vancouver police investigators said last week that all potential leads had been exhausted, but the cases remained open.
Huszar is the most recent of the young men to vanish in Vancouver. He disappeared at some point around midnight on Dec. 16 after leaving a Christmas party at the Lamplighter pub in Gastown.
So far, there have been no tips or evidence to suggest foul play in any of the cases, police say.
Nor does there appear to be any link between the men or the circumstances of their disappearances.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of any of these men are asked to call the VPD’s missing persons unit at 604-717-2530, your local police, or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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