Nicoll Investigations has spoken with more than 60 people in hopes of locating Justin Pollari, who abruptly vanished from St. Joseph Island over 24 years ago <\/p>\n
New leads have emerged in the investigation into the mysterious disappearance of a St. Joseph Island teen more than two decades ago.<\/p>\n
Private investigator Jay Nicoll has been looking into\u00a0the case of Justin Pollari, who was 14 when he went missing from Hilton Township in December 2001.<\/p>\n
While Nicolls says the missing teen was deemed a runaway by police, new information he\u00a0gleaned from over 60 individuals suggests\u00a0locations where Pollari’s\u00a0remains could be potentially found \u2014 including a lake, a landfill site and a property where heavy construction equipment was stored.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But a tip from one of Pollari\u2019s stepbrothers has now led Nicoll to believe that his remains could possibly be buried beneath a garage that was being built on the island around the same time\u00a0he went missing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s coming back to this place as being pretty accurate \u2014 and it’s certainly my No. 1 target at the moment,\u201d said Nicoll, who is the sole proprietor of Nicoll Investigations, a private investigation and cold case firm based in Richmond Hill.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The private investigator \u2014 who is also the podcaster behind the Ontario Cold Cases<\/a> podcast \u2014 has managed to stitch together a timeline of events leading up to Pollari\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n Nicoll says Pollari went to a local restaurant in Hilton Beach before going to a friend\u2019s camp on the day he vanished.<\/p>\n That night, Pollari was at dance at the Hilton Beach Community Hall with a group of friends until his father forcibly removed him from the venue, according to information received by Nicoll.<\/p>\n The private investigator says it appears Pollari snuck back to the community hall, eventually getting a ride back home with a pair of individuals at some point that evening.<\/p>\n \u201cThey’re the last ones, as far as I’m concerned, that saw Justin alive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Nicoll noted that Pollari left behind money, clothing and a \u201cskateboard that never left his side,\u201d when he vanished from the island that night.<\/p>\n Based in Richmond Hill, Nicoll is raising\u00a0funds through a GoFundMe<\/a> campaign to cover costs for a trip to St. Joseph Island and Sault Ste. Marie, to continue his investigation on the ground and speak with people in person.<\/p>\n A key part of that investigation would be to speak with one of Pollari\u2019s stepbrothers who has been feeding the private investigator information.<\/p>\n \u201cHe is currently in jail, and he will not talk to the police at all,\u201d said Nicoll.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is why I’m kind of desperate to get out there to talk to him face-to-face, because he said he will speak to me.”<\/p>\n Nicoll says most of the information he’s\u00a0received will eventually be submitted to Ontario Provincial Police.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the meantime, the private investigator is appealing to the public for any shred of information that could assist him in his investigation.<\/p>\n \u201cJust write everything down,\u201d Nicoll said. \u201cI don’t care if it’s in a jumble and a complete mess and it’s point form.<\/p>\n \u201cEven the littlest things like that, just write them down because it corroborates something else a little bit later.\u201d<\/p>\n Anyone with information can contact Nicoll by calling (289) 923-7302<\/a> or\u00a0at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n The public can also submit anonymous tips to Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-TIPS<\/a> (8477) or online via the P3 platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicoll Investigations has spoken with more than 60 people in hopes of locating Justin Pollari, who abruptly vanished…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,278743],"class_list":["post-788971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-st-joseph-islandmissing-teendisappearanceprivate-investigatorjustin-pollarijay-nicollnicoll-investigations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}