On a Sunday morning in Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 26, 1991, 29-year-old Andrew Lindsay Percival began his day with a phone call to his sister. It was around 9:00 a.m. when he asked to borrow their mother's car for the morning, a request to which his sister agreed. Andrew then picked up a friend and they proceeded to run some errands in the St. Vital area of the city. The day took a puzzling turn after these errands were completed. Andrew drove his friend to the Downs Hotel located at 3740 Portage Avenue, dropping him off at approximately 11:30 a.m. Before parting ways, he told his friend he would be back shortly but unsettlingly mumbled something about "there's going to be a fight with a guy who is 6'6", 300 pounds." He never returned to the hotel.
Around the same time he left his friend, Andrew contacted his sister again, asking if he could keep the car for a while longer.
She denied his request, and Andrew told her he would have the car towed back to their home. He mentioned that he had found friends who could give him a ride to Route 6, the main highway that leads through the Interlake region, an area encompassing communities such as Oak Point, Lundar, and Ashern. True to his word, the car was towed home. Records from the towing company confirmed the vehicle was picked up from the Augier Trailer Park, situated near the Downs Hotel. The car was undamaged, and the keys had been left in the ignition. The identities of the friends he claimed were driving him to Route 6, and his intended destination, remain unknown.
Andrew Percival was a white male, standing 5'11" and weighing 190 pounds at the time of his disappearance. He had brown hair, blue eyes, and wore prescription glasses. He was also distinguished by two tattoos: a bluebird on his right calf and a heart on his left arm. In the years since he was last seen, there have been no credible sightings or communications from him. Rumors circulated that Andrew had connections to the criminal underworld and may have been involved in transporting cocaine for individuals associated with a criminal organization, leading to speculation that he may have met with foul play as a result of these associations. Despite these theories, no physical evidence has ever been found to confirm what happened to him, and his body has never been located. The case of Andrew Percival's disappearance is a collection of perplexing final moments: a cryptic mention of a fight, a borrowed car left with the keys in the ignition, and a planned trip up a highway with unknown companions. These fragments of a story have left his family and investigators without answers for decades, a quiet and lingering mystery in the vast landscape of Manitoba.Last Seen: Oct 26, 1991
