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Missing baby sparked search
DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com
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Stories from Tri-City News headlines from decades past will be a reoccurring feature this summer as the publication approaches its 40th anniversary in 2024. One of the saddest stories published by the Tri-City News was the tale of a baby who was reportedly snatched, along with her car seat, from a vehicle outside Coquitlam Centre
The disappearance occurred May 30, 1990
It prompted Coquitlam RCMP to hold a reenactment of the scene in the hopes that someone remembered the incident.
A radio station offered a $10,000 reward if the baby was found and the family of two-month-old Harpeet Paul also put up a reward for the safe return of their daughter.
According to reports in June 1990, the parents went into the mall for 30 minutes.
They took an older daughter with them, but left Harpeet behind because she was sleeping. When they returned to their 1979 Chrysler Cordoba the infant and her car seat were gone. RCMP at the time were looking for a “Tom Selleck look-alike” who boarded a New Westminster bound BC Transit bus at approximately the same time the baby disappeared.
Nearly two weeks after the baby disappeared, on June 13, 1990, the TriCity News reported that no new leads had been reported
