Police are combing an Ontario river on Friday after a severed head and foot were found in and near the waterway this week.
“We have a foot and a head at this point. We’ll be looking for the entire victim,” acting Inspector Randy Cowan of the Peel Regional Police told reporters Thursday in a news conference near the Credit River in Mississauga.
Cowan said the head was that of a woman and the foot had painted toenails, leading authorities to suspect it was also from a woman. However, tests would be needed to conclude they were from the same victim, he said. The foot was found Wednesday and the head on Thursday.
“Common sense tells us this is most likely related,” he said.
A cause of death had not been determined, Cowan said.
“Without a cause of death we can't call it homicide, but certainly foul play — there's definitely something amiss," Cowan told reporters.
The inspector said the body parts were likely from an adult.
“The size of the remains would indicate it is not a child,” he said. Decomposition meant the race of the remains could not immediately be determined, he said.
The remains were found about a kilometer apart along the river, which runs near Hewick Meadows Park in the city of 700,000 west of Toronto not far from Lake Ontario. Cowan said they had likely been in the river for a short time, weeks on the high end.
Police were checking into missing persons cases from the immediate area and others upriver for leads into the case, Cowan said.
The area around where the body parts were found is a quiet residential one, according to a report from CNN affiliate CBC.
The Mississauga case is the second involving body parts to make big headlines in Canada this year.
In May, a human foot was mailed to the headquarters of the ruling Conservative Party in Ottawa. Remains, but not an entire body, were also found by a janitor behind a Montreal apartment building.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, a 29-year-old porn actor, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in that case in June. He pleaded not guilty.
Body parts linked to the Magnotta case were also mailed to schools in British Columbia, according to authorities.
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Canada is awesome. Usually nice and cool up there. It's The Great White North. (I miss SCTV)
Yeah, Eh?
The detail of the painted toenails gives this story a David Lynch feel.
This just in : The cause of death, decapitation.
And how do you know she wasn't decapitated after death? Hmmm? How do you know these details?
Don't u derestimate or forgot that too much ice cream cold also be the cause...
WHOA slow down man you're talking crazy.
Just couldn't resist: did Obama finally decide to get rid of Joe Biden while he had his foot in his mouth?
They find a severed head and comment "Something definetly amiss here"
Gee – ya think ???
Canadians sure know how to chop people up! Is this a national past time?
LoL, at least we don't eat each other, and have a mass shooting every month. Typical Americans, always ready to poke at another country when something happens, completely ignoring their own screwed up situation.
Oh, stop.
Canada is glorious.
This would be much more prevalent in, say, Detroit, where just yesterday body parts were found in a sewer.
(Credit: CW)
They didn't need to link the two cases, but that's the news for you.
If the killing was in America, it would have been gun related. There are less violent crimes in Canada because there are less guns. Likewise, there are less violent crimes per capita in all of Europe compare to America because there are less guns there and less right wing trailer trash.
1. Canada has more gun ownership per capita than the US.
2. The US gun violence is predominantly Black on Black followed by Brown v Brown or Brown v Black.
3. The US is being overrun by Black and Brown gangs bent on violence.
4. Very little White v White gun violence.
5. Where gun ownership and carry is legally protected along with Castle doctrine the crime rate is very low.
6. In Europe and England such violence is on the rise consistent with certain levels of Immigration.
7. China with severe restrictions they enjoy a heavy use of Knives, Arson and explosives as guns are not available.
8. Firearm ownership by the people is the only sure protection of the people from Tyranny.
9. An armed populace can not be enslaved by a Government.
There is no apostrophe in wheels.
Amen. Like that one about a guy who had 13 bears guarding his weed plantation.
Obama : "Rocco! You didn't do that !!!:"
This has a serious ick factor going on.
Canada bans guns, now it will have to be knives... knives don't kill people, people kill people...
Don't offend the LGBT community with such narrow minded reporting.....the painted toenails could belong to anyone, silly.
@NM
So what's your point? If gun violence in America is predominently black on black or brown on brown, its still a bad trend that needs to be corrected. Whether black on black or white on white, we need to have stricter gun laws in America. And with that being said, parents need to play a bigger part in the lives of their children regardless of race.
“Without a cause of death we can't call it homicide, but certainly foul play — there's definitely something amiss," Cowan told reporters."
Really? Ya think?" LOL!!!!
definite suicide. see it every year. people cutting off their own heads.
Feets don't fail me now !