Two years ago, Mariam Makhniashvili walked her brother to a midtown Toronto high school and parted ways at the rear door.
The teen girl, then 17, has not been seen since.
The mysterious disappearance of Makhniashvili rocked a family that had moved to Canada for a fresh start and left Toronto police with few leads to follow over the past two years.
Makhniashvili walked to Forest Hill Collegiate Institute on the morning of Sept. 14, 2009, with her brother George, and then told him she would be going in the front door as it was closer to her first-period class.
That is the last confirmed sighting of Mariam, who came to Toronto from the Republic of Georgia to reunite with their parents. Vakhtang Makhniashvili and Lela Tabidze had been working in Los Angeles for five years prior to being reunited with their children.
One of the few tangible leads in the case was the recovery of her school knapsack two weeks after her disappearance.
The bizarre case prompted hundreds of tips and unconfirmed sightings. A few witnesses claimed to have seen her in rural Alberta in the aftermath of her disappearance.
The case was featured on U.S. show America's Most Wanted and prompted Toronto police to issue a $10,000 reward one year after her disappearance.
The teen's disappearance captured international media attention at the time and has remained in the headlines following a series of incidents involving her family.
Her father, 51-year-old Vakhtang Makhniashvili, is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to aggravated assault for stabbing three people.
He has said stress, caused by the loss of his daughter, was behind his actions.
The stabbing victims included a neighbour who he blamed for his daughter's disappearance and a couple who posted his bail following the previous attack.
The last person to see the teen girl, her brother, also went missing.
A year after his sister's disappearance George Makhniashvili vanished briefly after a squabble with his parents. He turned up unharmed at a police station in Vaughan the next morning.
