Elizabeth Bain

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Elizabeth Bain, a 22-year-old university student in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, disappeared and was presumed murdered on June 19, 1990. Her car was later discovered with a bloodstain in the backseat, but her body was never found. Bain's boyfriend, Robert Baltovich, was convicted of her murder on March 31, 1992; however, his conviction was set aside 12 years later, when a judge determined that there were serious problems with the original investigation and case. He is currently awaiting his re-trial to begin on a second degree murder charge.

Baltovich's lawyers, and some others, have suggested that Bain was in fact the first murder victim of notorious killer Paul Bernardo, who (it was later discovered) was the Scarborough rapist, committing violent, serial sexual assaults on young women in the Scarborough area at the time of Bain's disappearance. Witnesses have come forward saying Elizabeth was last seen with a blonde man who could have been Paul Bernardo.