Investigators in Canada are offering a C$100,000 reward in a bid to solve the brazen kidnapping of an Iranian Canadian woman by assailants disguised as police officers that continues to baffle detectives.
Elnaz Hajtamiri was violently abducted on 12 January 2022, from a house in an Ontario beach community, by three men disguised in police gear, who hauled her barefoot through the snow and into a waiting SUV.
In the year since, there have been no ransom demands from her captors and few updates on the case.
“Her family is grieving her absence and has lived through a year with limited answers,” Det Insp Martin Graham of Ontario provincial police told reporters on Thursday morning. “Someone out there knows the identities of these men.”
Police also released two composite sketches of the masked suspects, based on details provided by two eyewitnesses, as well as brief written descriptions of the three men. During the abduction, one had a holstered gun and another had imitation handcuffs.