Body matches Jennifer's description
真的是她阿 ~~~~~~
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/OttawaAndRegion/2005/09/19/1223102-sun.html
POLICE have launched a possible homicide investigation after a body believed to be that of Jennifer Teague was found in a heavily wooded area off Moodie Dr. yesterday.
The body was discovered by an off-duty cop just after noon, eight days after police launched a massive search for 18-year-old Jennifer, who went missing after finishing her shift at a Barrhaven Wendy's on Sept. 8.
The officer was enjoying the afternoon with his family before going to work the night shift at the Elgin St. station.
As they walked along the Lime Kiln Trail, off Moodie Dr. less than 10 km from where Jennifer was last seen, the odour of the decomposing body drew the officer into the bush, where he found the body covered in brush.
"It was off a trail but in the bush," Staff Sgt. Monique Ackland confirmed. "It's absolutely impossible to see anything from the road."
Although Ackland wouldn't confirm the body was Jennifer's, sources said the investigation into Jennifer's disappearance changed direction immediately after the gruesome discovery. Investigators had no one in custody last night, nor do they have any suspects or persons of interest in the case.
COPS TIGHT-LIPPED
Jennifer's dad, Ed Teague, and his wife, Sylvie, had just returned to a friend's home after church and were having a snack when they got the call from police.
Sylvie said last night police weren't telling them much more than they were telling the media yesterday afternoon.
"I watched the news before I went for a walk and that's what we know," Sylvie said.
Police were awaiting autopsy results before they would say with 100% certainty that it was Jennifer's body in the woods.
"Because of the area that the human remains were found, because of the proximity of where Jennifer was last seen, we do not discard the possibility that it could be Jennifer, however, without identification we cannot speculate," Ackland said.
Despite the discovery of a body matching his daughter's description, Ed Teague remained hopeful last night that his daughter would come home alive.
"We're both still hopeful that it's not her," Sylvie said. "So until we hear for sure, we'll keep praying."
Last night, Jennifer's brother Carey was sitting quietly on the front step of the family's Kennevale Dr. house with a friend, but declined to comment on the find.
Sylvie said she and her husband planned to steer clear of the scene so police could do their work.
However, a police command post set up yesterday at the corner of West Hunt Club Rd. and Moodie Dr. drew dozens of curious and frightened residents, many of whom pulled over to find out what was happening.
"Have they found her?" asked one couple parked at a red light before shaking their heads and driving off.
"When they said they may have found the girl, I got shivers," said one concerned parent who'd pulled over with his kids.
Jennifer went missing after 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 8.
She had just finished her shift at Wendy's and met up with some friends outside the Mac's convenience store in the area of Jockvale and Tartan roads.
After already telling her mother to lay out her pajamas, the teen told her friends she had to go home because she had school in the morning.
However, Jennifer's family didn't call police until the next night when she failed to show up for work.
Ottawa police's missing persons unit was originally working on the case but when police couldn't find any reason, other than foul play, for Jennifer to be missing, major crime detectives took over.
NCC PATROLS
Police launched a massive hunt for the teen last weekend and completed a search of the 2.5-km radius surrounding her house on Thursday afternoon.
Officers continued to canvass neighbours last night.
While the wooded NCC property where the body was found is beyond the 2.5-km radius searched by police in the days following Jennifer's disappearance, NCC spokeswoman Marie-Eve Letourneau said patrols in the area were beefed up over the last week as a precaution.
"The NCC started patrolling the area a little bit more intensively once we heard the girl had been missing," she said. "We were patrolling on ATVs, by walking and on bicycles as well as the parking lot."
Letourneau couldn't say whether there were any patrols in the area the night Jennifer went missing, nor would she comment on how long it took to find the body despite those extra patrols.
Ackland said forensic identification officers would comb the Stony Swamp area for clues before removing the body. The same officers involved in the search for Jennifer will be doing an evidence search of the area where the body was found.
The NCC trails remained closed and motorists had to find other routes through the southwest end of the city as police cordoned off the area between West Hunt Club Rd. Richmond Rd., Fallowfield Rd. and Moodie Dr. Police expected the roads to remain closed all morning.
