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Yohanna Cyr

In searching for missing children who could possibly be the "unrelated" Allenstown child, we came across the story of Yohanna Cyr, missing out of Montreal. The story was of particular interest to us because Aaron Lewis (the man mentioned in articles below) had once lived in Allenstown, NH and still lived in the area. 
Yohanna and unidentified Allenstown child

 Once we learned that the Allenstown child was the biological daughter of Terry Rasmussen, this possible match was ruled out. But in the process, we had had contact with Yohanna's mother, Lilly, and her story was a difficult one to hear. 

Lilly and Yohanna

 Reddit Summary of case




Yohanna in 1978 and the age progression that was done

 The man questioned in the Cyr case (Aaron Lewis aka Aaron Guay aka Ronald Guay aka Rainbow) still lives in New Hampshire (Hooksett) and according to Montreal authorities, was not been cooperative when questioned in recent years. He declined to take a polygraph test and would not speak about the circumstances surrounding her disappearance. Perhaps she really did drown while he was watching her but how cowardly and sadistic not to own up to this and let a mother bury her child's remains properly. 
Aaron Lewis back in the day

 QUESTION: Aaron/Ronald had a friend nick-named 'Devil' in 1978. If anyone knows who this man is (he may have been from Boston), please contact Ronda Randall at oakhillresearch@gmail.com or by text/call at 207-841-2526.


                                                                  Is there any chance this could be Yohanna?

Peter MCCabe  Ingrid Peritz The Globe and Mail April 30, 2014

Searching for clues in 36-year-old case; Toddler has been missing since 1978, but more recent evidence fuels hope 
Cherry, Paul. Montreal Gazette [Montreal, Que] 08 Nov 2014:

Hope turned to bitter disappointment for Liliane Cyr on Friday after a much anticipated search underneath sections of a parking lot in the St-Laurent borough turned up no trace of her baby girl who disappeared 36 years ago.

After having combed the parking lot, part of the borough's recreational centre on Grenet St., twice in recent months with ground penetrating radar, Montreal police decided to break ground Friday in the hopes of finding the remains of Yohanna Cyr, the 18-month-old girl who disappeared in 1978. Previous searches using radar turned up two spots in the parking lot, which was a wooded area in 1978, where large metal objects appeared to lie about a metre below the surface. The search was based on a tip, received eight years ago, from a woman who saw Liliane Cyr's then-boyfriend leave their apartment building with a metal breadbox on the day the toddler disappeared. The apartment building, which has since burned down, was close to where the wooded area used to be.

Cyr, who was not home when her daughter went missing, spent hours waiting Friday after Montreal police arranged to have the asphalt removed from the two locations and people assisting in the investigation dug. Unfortunately, the first spot failed to turn up anything metal. At the second, they found a steel pipe.

"It was not the answer she wanted to hear today," said Pina Arcamone, director general of the Missing Children's Network, who lent support to Cyr on Friday.

Understandably, Cyr left the search area without a comment for reporters. Before receiving the disappointing news, she expressed hope Friday would prove to be the day she could at least find some closure to 36 years worth of wondering, agony and doubt.

"It's been a few years now that I feel (Yohanna) is here," said Cyr as people began digging. "It will be a relief if they find her." 

Cyr said she had to work on Aug. 15, 1978, the day her daughter disappeared, and left the toddler in the care of her then-boyfriend, Aaron Lewis, a man from Boston she had been dating for a while.

When she returned, her child was gone.

She said Friday that Lewis later told her Yohanna Cyr had drowned in their bathtub and he buried her because he feared calling the police. She said Lewis told her this in English, which she had difficulty understanding in 1978.

According to court records, Lewis, now 65, was arrested and charged at the Montreal courthouse with child abduction after Yohanna disappeared. On Sept. 28, 1978, three weeks after his arrest, he was acquitted and released. One month later, he was charged with perjury but was acquitted again, on Nov. 16, 1978. "It was the biggest mistake of my life," Cyr said of her relationship with Lewis. She added she noticed Yohanna had a black eye shortly before she disappeared, but attributed the injury to her daughter possibly falling while attempting to walk. "I fell in love with him and it was a mistake."

Det.-Sgt. Marie-Julie Durand, a Montreal police investigator who has been working on the case for the past three years, said two years ago investigators met with Lewis, who now lives in New Hampshire, and he was uncooperative. 

The witness who came forward eight years ago approached the Missing Children's Network with the tip first. Cyr said on Friday the same woman said the same thing back in 1978, but later recanted out of fear.

"I think this shows that information can come about even years later," Arcamone said before the search ended on Friday.

"Sometimes people see things and they don't think it's important because they figure someone else already did (tell police). But then (years later) they'll see the mother or father of a missing child (in the media) and they will come forward. It has brought us to where we are today."

(in French) October 2016

Part Three                                                                                 Part Four

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