Body pulled from canal at Hog's Back。
Nicholas Kohler, With files from Jennifer Morrison
The Ottawa Citizen
Saturday, September 20, 2003
CREDIT: Bruno Schlumberger, The Ottawa Citizen
Police divers worked in yesterday's heavy rain to recover a body from the Rideau Canal at Hog's Back Road.
A woman's body was pulled from the Rideau Canal at Hog's Back Road yesterday evening, and police are treating the death as suspicious.
Ottawa police hope autopsy results expected today will provide a cause of death. The investigation has been turned over to the major crime unit.
Police were working last night to determine whether the body, found just north of Hog's Back Road and the canal locks, is connected to a missing person report they had received earlier in the day.
Sgt. Claude Parent was investigating the missing person report when he came upon the body about 3:50 p.m.
The woman, missing since 10 p.m. Thursday, lives in a Prince of Wales Drive apartment building overlooking the area.
But police could not say if the body was that of the young woman.
"We go out looking for one thing, we find this," said Staff Sgt. Brad Spriggs. "I can't make the connection yet. She's not been identified."
He said police will treat the incident as suspicious "until we know otherwise."
The police divers who recovered the body worked through heavy rain as uniformed police, donning the Ottawa force's bright orange rain coats, wandered amidst powerful gusts of wind and the historic green-trimmed buildings overlooking the Hog's Back locks.
The gathering of police cars and ambulances -- 10 to 15 emergency vehicles converging on the grass and bicycle trails adjacent to the canal -- attracted the attention of drivers on Colonel By Drive, resulting in at least one minor accident.
The investigation continues.
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.asp?id=F93E602E-B59D-486C-88D5-A8609E67CD5B
Nicholas Kohler, With files from Jennifer Morrison
The Ottawa Citizen
Saturday, September 20, 2003
CREDIT: Bruno Schlumberger, The Ottawa Citizen
Police divers worked in yesterday's heavy rain to recover a body from the Rideau Canal at Hog's Back Road.
A woman's body was pulled from the Rideau Canal at Hog's Back Road yesterday evening, and police are treating the death as suspicious.
Ottawa police hope autopsy results expected today will provide a cause of death. The investigation has been turned over to the major crime unit.
Police were working last night to determine whether the body, found just north of Hog's Back Road and the canal locks, is connected to a missing person report they had received earlier in the day.
Sgt. Claude Parent was investigating the missing person report when he came upon the body about 3:50 p.m.
The woman, missing since 10 p.m. Thursday, lives in a Prince of Wales Drive apartment building overlooking the area.
But police could not say if the body was that of the young woman.
"We go out looking for one thing, we find this," said Staff Sgt. Brad Spriggs. "I can't make the connection yet. She's not been identified."
He said police will treat the incident as suspicious "until we know otherwise."
The police divers who recovered the body worked through heavy rain as uniformed police, donning the Ottawa force's bright orange rain coats, wandered amidst powerful gusts of wind and the historic green-trimmed buildings overlooking the Hog's Back locks.
The gathering of police cars and ambulances -- 10 to 15 emergency vehicles converging on the grass and bicycle trails adjacent to the canal -- attracted the attention of drivers on Colonel By Drive, resulting in at least one minor accident.
The investigation continues.
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.asp?id=F93E602E-B59D-486C-88D5-A8609E67CD5B
