May 26, 1989. Kelowna, British Columbia. While taking a lengthy backpacking trip through Canada, 20-year old British national Charles Horvath cashes a cheque at a bank, but soon vanishes without a trace. After not hearing from him for several months, Charles’ mother, Denise Allan, travels to Kelowna to perform a search and learns that Charles was staying at a local campground until he abruptly disappeared and left his personal belongings behind. Over the years, there are a number of leads, including an anonymous note which states that Charles was killed at a party before his body was dumped in a lake, but no evidence is found to indicate what happened to him. Did Charles Horvath become a victim of foul play? If not, what actually caused his disappearance? On this week’s episode of “The Path Went Chilly”, we cover an unsolved missing persons case involving a victim who vanished while travelling through our podcast’s home country of Canada.If you have any information about this case, please contact the Kelowna detachment of the RCMP at (250) 762-3300 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

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Additional Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Charles_Horvath-Allan

https://unsolved.com/gallery/charles-horvath/

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Charles_Horvath

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/mother-spends-40000-pounds-trying-to-trace-son-1556520.html

https://globalnews.ca/news/71198/search-for-missing-son-brings-mother-back-to-kelowna/

http://globalnews.ca/news/1169821/still-no-sign-of-charles-horvath-25-years-later/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/charles-horvath-allan-s-mother-makes-last-effort-in-search-of-answers-for-missing-son-1.3076705

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/u-k-mom-has-new-hope-of-finding-out-what-happened-to-her-son-30-years-after-he-disappeared-in-b-c-1.5705896

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/we-re-still-searching-for-answers-mother-determined-to-solve-30-year-old-case-of-missing-son-1.4846262

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-30-year-search-for-the-u-k-s-most-famous-missing-son

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/incredible-choir-bound-together-heartache-7919460

https://www.kamloopsbcnow.com/watercooler/news/news/Kelowna/GoFundMe_started_in_last_ditch_effort_to_find_Charles_Horvath_who_disappeared_without_a_trace_in_Kelowna_34_years_ago/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/504855528/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/494974095/

https://crimeblogger1983.blogspot.com/2019/04/murdered-in-canada-karoly-charles-john.html