Family of missing Montreal boy still holding out hope

MONTREAL – When you first meet them, you notice the special bond between Christiane Sirois and Melanier Metivier.

The mother and daughter have supported each other through the tough times.

In their case, it’s been close to three decades of unanswered questions.

“It’s been 29 years we are living this,” Christiane Sirois says. “It has to stop.”

Sirois is the mother of missing child Sebastien Metivier.

On November 1st 1984, the then 8-year-old boy was last seen leaving St-Nom-Jesus Church on Adam Street in east-end Montreal.

Police say he was likely abducted walking home from the church to his home on nearby Desjardins Avenue.

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Sebastien’s sister, Melanie Metivier, was with her brother that night.

“I have a lot of pain because of that,” she says holding back tears. “It’s hard for the emotions.”

Sebastien Metivier disappeared the same day two other boys were reported missing in the Montreal area.

The bodies of 12-year-old Wilton Lubin and 4-year-old Maurice Viens were found.

Sebastien’s whereabouts remain a mystery.

The missing boy’s mother is desperate for closure.

Still to this day, Sirois still puts put up posters of her son in the neighbourhood where the crime took place.

Last month, the Surete-du-Quebec announced a major development in the case.

A special team of investigators looking into the case say a serial killer may be behind Metivier’s disappearance and the murders of six other children.

The S-Q won’t reveal any details about their new possible lead.

Pina Arcamone, the director of the Missing Children’s Network, hopes the information leads to arrests.

“It will be very interesting in the next few weeks to see what further information the SQ will reveal,” Arcamone told Global News.

“I can’t imagine one day without my child, can you imagine 29 years?  It’s a nightmare.”