Ottawa police offer $75K reward in case of missing Greely man

Ottawa police are offering a $75,000 reward to anyone who can provide useful information about a local man who disappeared in 2019 and whose death is now considered a homicide.

At a news conference Wednesday, police shared the latest information on the case of Corey Baldwin, who was in his early 40s when he disappeared in April 2019.

Police said Baldwin was last known to be in the Montreal area, but investigators believe he may have travelled to British Columbia shortly before he was reported missing in December 2019. They want to talk to anyone who may have seen him in either place.

"We know there's people in the Montreal area, we know there's people possibly in British Columbia, in the Ottawa area that have information on Corey's last moments prior to being murdered," homicide Det. Chris Benson said at the news conference.

"We're hoping that those individuals come forward and provide us that information to advance this investigation."

Police have not found Baldwin's body and are not saying why they now believe Baldwin was killed, citing the ongoing investigation.

In a previous news release, police said Baldwin would never have left his family, including two young daughters, without an explanation.

6-year search

Ottawa police have followed up on a number of tips over the intervening years, but said none yielded results.

Police have described Baldwin as a bald white man measuring five-feet-10-inches tall and weighing 232 pounds. He has grey/blue eyes and has several tattoos on his arms, legs and back.

He was from Greely, a rural community within the City of Ottawa.

Wednesday's announcement is not an unprecedented move: Ottawa police have sometimes offered monetary incentives for information on unsolved files that leads to an arrest and prosecution.

Last September, for example, they offered $75,000 to anyone with useful information in the case of Roger Dale Lusk, who was fatally stabbed in September 2024.

The Ottawa Police Service has yet to pay out any such award, however.