Duncan MacPherson

Duncan MacPherson (born Duncan Alvin MacPherson on February 3, 1966) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who died under mysterious circumstances during a ski trip in Austria.

Playing Career
duncan was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. A standout defensive defenceman for the Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League (WHL), he 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, but never made it to the NHL.

Disappearance & Death
In the summer of 1989, Duncan went to Europe.

The New York Islanders had bought out & released him and he had intentions of taking a job as a player-coach for a semi-pro hockey team in Dundee, Scotland, commencing in August 1989 even though he did have a bad feeling in his gut about the entrepreneur Ron Dixon who was backing the Scottish team.

He went to central Europe alone in early August 1989 to visit old friends and see the sights before going on to Scotland. Duncan was scheduled to arrive in Dundee on August 12, 1989, but when he did not show up, his family went to look for him.

A car he had borrowed from a friend was discovered six weeks later in the parking lot of the Stubaital ski-region resort at the foot of the Stubai Glaciers in the Stubai Alps in Austria, where he had rented a snowboard.

Duncan's last known contact was with an employee of the ski resort on August 9, 1989 who reported that he spoke with MacPherson, and last saw MacPherson departing alone to perhaps squeeze in some final snowboarding and hiking before nightfall

Adding drama to the mystery was the fact that Duncan claimed he had been contacted by the CIA and that they were interested in recruiting him as a spy, but the story was never confirmed.

Almost 14 years after Duncan disappeared, an employee of the Stubai Glacier Resort discovered a glove sticking out of the ice of the melting Schaufelferner Glacier (one of the Stubai Glaciers' arms) in the middle of the ski run where his body had lain frozen.