Our Son Is Missing

June M. Blurton is a retired speech pathologist.

On September 20, 1994, 22-year-old Joe Gledhill Jr. did not come home
for dinner. At the time he was staying with his parents in Westchester
Village, 70 kilometres west of Halifax. In the morning, he had left his
parents’ home to drive to his job in Dartmouth; it was the last time
he was seen alive.

This book details the mounting frenzy of Joe Jr.’s parents and
friends, the strenuous search efforts of the RCMP, interviews with the
media, and the involvement of a psychic in the case. Six weeks after his
disappearance, Joe Jr. and his car were discovered in a deep gully off a
highway that had been searched repeatedly. No one could give a
definitive reason for the accident.

Amateurish writing notwithstanding, this book effectively conveys the
pain, desperation, and exhaustion experienced by Joe Jr.’s family and
friends.