Conrad Jason Ducharme
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In northern Alberta, long roads cut through forest and farmland, connecting small, close-knit communities. It was along these highways in the summer of 2016 that 43-year-old Conrad Jason Ducharme, known to family and friends simply as Jason, was last seen.
Jason was believed to be traveling on foot to Dixonville for a tent meeting. He made it there and was later spotted in Manning. But after that, his trail went cold. Known for walking long distances and sometimes catching rides, Jason often stayed with friends or relatives scattered along his route. At first, his family assumed he was with someone else. Only later did they realize no one had seen him, and by then, his trail was already fading.
What alarmed them most was that Jason missed his son’s birthday at the end of July, something completely out of character. Nearly a decade later, no trace of Jason has ever been found. His family continues to hold onto hope that answers may still come, and that by sharing Jason's story, someone who remembers something might step forward.
If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Conrad Jason Ducharme, please contact the Manning RCMP at 780-836-3769 and reference case#: 2016-1416531. Or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or submit a tip online at canadiancrimestoppers.org.
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| 0:00.0 | We have to take every tip that we can get. |
| 0:12.8 | Might be a good one or just a rumor. |
| 0:16.3 | So we use everything that we could get. |
| 0:19.1 | It's a small place and nobody's seen anything, heard anything. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm sure they've heard something. |
| 0:24.5 | Everybody's tight-lipped. |
| 0:26.2 | We're the backbone for this investigation. |
| 0:29.3 | Recapping, recalling, all the effort that we put in, our family did a lot. |
| 0:34.7 | Just thinking about it, just brings tears to my eyes. How much we've done and haven't even buttoned anywhere. |
| 0:42.3 | RCMP have no idea at all what happened to him. He just vanished without a trace. There's no clues and there's no nothing. |
| 0:51.3 | We had set up search parties. We searched on our own, but there's just nothing to go on, not a single clue. |
| 0:58.5 | There was talk saying that RCMP were the last person to have seen them in the town of Manning, |
| 1:04.0 | but that was never really looked into. |
| 1:06.7 | In northern Alberta, the land seems to stretch endlessly. |
| 1:15.6 | Forest give way to farmland and long roads cut between small, close-knit communities. The region is sparsely populated, but densely wooded, with vast distances separating towns and settlements. |
| 1:22.6 | Between the Paddle Prairie settlement and the town of Grimshaw, |
| 1:26.6 | lie tiny hamlets and miles of highway |
| 1:28.9 | often traveled by those who live in the north. It was along these roads in the summer of 2016, |
| 1:35.5 | that 43-year-old Conrad Jason do charm, known to his family and friends simply as Jason, was last seen. |
| 1:42.5 | That July, Jason was believed to be traveling on foot to Dixonville, |
| 1:46.4 | where he planned to attend a tent meeting. It was later confirmed that Jason made it to Dixonville. |
| 1:52.0 | Not long after, Jason was spotted in the town of Manning, and it's there that his trail seems to go |
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