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<\/p>\nA nine-year mystery just got stranger.<\/p>\n
An Edmonton Christian magazine publisher who seemingly vanished in 2017 is believed to be living rough in Edmonton\u2019s river valley.<\/p>\n
Jeffrey Caporale, 68, was listed as missing in 2017 by both the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) and the RCMP.<\/p>\n
At that time, he was believed to have an alias as \u2018Rob McKinney\u2019.<\/p>\n
In April 2020, just as the pandemic panic was sending people into isolation, a family member filed another missing person report with the Edmonton Police Service.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to March 2026, and a man identifying himself as Jeff Caporale showed up in an interaction with Edmonton police officers at Groat Road and 102 Avenue.<\/p>\n
The officers didn\u2019t realize he was possibly the missing Jeff Caporale until later.<\/p>\n
Now Edmonton police have a mystery to clear up, issuing a news release last week to try and generate more tips from the public.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo date, efforts to locate Jeffrey have been unsuccessful and the EPS is now issuing a media release with images taken from the recent interaction,\u201d says the news release.<\/p>\n
Caporale is about five foot five and 150 pounds, with a surgical scar on the left side of his chest. He is bald and has light blue eyes.<\/p>\n
He is believed to currently be living unhoused in the river valley in locations including the Victoria Park area.<\/p>\n
Magazine publisher<\/p>\n
Around 2015-2016, a listing appeared for Caporale\u2019s bi-monthly publication, Living Light News magazine, on a website with markets for freelance writers.<\/p>\n
It was described as \u201can award-winning evangelical Christian lifestyles newspaper featuring news, sports and entertainment which glorifies God and shares the Gospel message.\u201d The publication touted a circulation of 80,000 and an office in Mill Woods.<\/p>\n
The paper paid 10 cents a word at a time when finding a paying freelance publication was a challenge.<\/p>\n
By 2016, the listing advised writers they were seeking stories about Christians who were famous personalities and celebrities.<\/p>\n
Postmedia spoke with Brian Hahn, a former sales manager for Living Light News.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s definitely him in the picture, in the snow, absolutely,\u201d Hahn said of the photo snapped by officers.<\/p>\n
Hahn remembers Caporale as a person with a spiritual bent, involved in his church. He had a home in Edmonton\u2019s Jasper Place neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
He last encountered Caporale at a restaurant in Leduc in 2015, where the entrepreneur was dining with friends. Caporale told him he was getting out of publishing the magazine, and going a \u201cdifferent direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
City police reached out to Hahn as possibly one of the last people to have had contact with him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said he disappeared without a trace, and his brother was very concerned, that the family needed closure,\u201d Hahn said.<\/p>\n
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Jeffrey Caporale has been listed as missing for six years, the Edmonton Police Service said.<\/p>\n
Lorna Lowe, a former employee of Caporale\u2019s, was shocked to see a social media post about Caporale.<\/p>\n
\u201cI worked on his sales staff for almost a year about 27 or so years ago,\u201d Lowe said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe started it and ran it, and was the editor. It was all about just good news of what Christianity was doing worldwide. And the premise was it all had to be like, happy, joyful. There was no bad news in it,\u201d Lowe said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was very unique. People loved the publication simply because it was good news instead of all the bad stuff we typically read.\u201d<\/p>\n
Based in Edmonton, at its peak Living Light News had employees in Alberta and Saskatchewan, she said.<\/p>\n
Website and phone numbers for the publication are out of service.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was distributed Alberta wide and then a little bit into Saskatchewan \u2026 it seemed to quite quickly dwindle for some reason, and I\u2019m not sure why, because I wasn\u2019t with the company at that point in time,\u201d Lowe said.<\/p>\n
The Jeff Caporale she knew was intelligent and generous.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he didn\u2019t know how to do something, he would learn how to do it and then just do it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you needed help, he would probably give you the shirt off his back.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a very strong faith, he just wanted to help people in that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Caporale\u2019s friends noticed that he suddenly disappeared from contact, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just a very odd circumstance all of a sudden, there was just no contact for a very long time \u2026 (a mutual friend) heard through the grapevine that he had been missing for a number of years, and they weren\u2019t even sure if he was alive anymore,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Jeffrey Caporale is asked to contact city police at 780-423-4567 or #377 from a mobile phone.<\/p>\n
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