DUNCAN MACPHERSON

'Duncan MacPherson' (February 3, 1966 – c. August 1989) was a professional ice hockey player who died under mysterious circumstances. He was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. A standout defensive defenseman for the Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League, MacPherson was drafted in the first round, 20th overall, of the 1984 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Islanders. He played minor league hockey for the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League and the Indianapolis Ice of the International Hockey League.

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Disappearance

In the summer of 1989 he was going to Europe to possibly take a job as a player-coach for a hockey team in Dundee, Scotland, and he went on a solo vacation around Europe in August, 1989 before taking up the position. He was scheduled to arrive in Dundee on August 12. When he did not show up, his family went to look for him. His rental car was discovered six weeks later in the parking lot of the Stubaier Gletscher resort in the Stubai Alps in Austria, where he had rented a snowboard and taken lessons. He was last seen late in the afternoon of August 9 on the chairlift. In July, 2003 an employee of the resort discovered his perfectly-preserved body in melting snow. In the intervening years his family had made an annual search of the resort, looking for his remains. It is likely that MacPherson, a novice snowboarder, fell into a crevice and was likely run over by the snow grooming machine.

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★ List of ice hockey players who died young

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★ Story of his disappearance

★ Find-a-Grave Entry

★ More accurate description of his story

★ A documentary produced for the fifth estate by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.