Duncan MacPherson
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Duncan MacPherson (born February 3, 1966 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, presumed death August 1989 in Austria) was a professional ice hockey player who died under mysterious circumstances. 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.
[edit] Disappearance
In summer 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 it up. He was scheduled to be in Dundee on August 12th. When he did not arrive his family went to look for him, and his borrowed car was discovered 6 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 9th 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 ran over by the snow grooming machine.
