GUILTY Canada - Alexandra Flanagan, 33, strangled, dismembered, Barrie, Ont, 8 July 2007

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A walk in the woods unearthed a grisly discovery this holiday weekend.
Human remains were found by someone walking through the woods near Horseshoe Valley Rd. and the 6th Line of Oro-Medonte Township, just north of Barrie, just after 8 a.m. Saturday.
OPP Const. Peter Leon said an autopsy of the remains will be conducted Sunday in Toronto at the Centre for Forensic Science.
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/05/22/14049591.html
 
Provincial police are saddled with the task trying to solve the mystery of two bodies found on the same day, miles apart.
An area resident made the first discovery while walking just after 8 a.m. Saturday in the Sugar Bush subdivision off Horseshoe Valley Road, near the 6th Line of Oro-Medonte Township.

Police are not speculating upon whether there may be a connection between the two.
After determining the first discovery was that of a human, OPP called in several teams, including the criminal investigation branch, the Barrie OPP crime unit, forensic identification unit, emergency response and the OPP SAVE (snowmobile, ATV and vessel enforcement) team.



http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2591379
 
We have several that are missing and unaccounted for.
 
http://www.orilliapacket.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2591400


The body appears to be male, based on the comments in this article. And, if the people who found the body could tell that it was male, it means that it couldn't have been there all winter. There has been a lot of warm weather this spring in that part of the province.

"We've heard it's from the belly button down and has no feet," Meagher said. "We were also told it was a male."
 
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/05/24/14061361.html

The remains - that turned up on the same day just hours apart - startled a peaceful first holiday weekend of summer for two cottage country communities.

In the first case, remains were found around 8:20 a.m. in the woods off Valleywood Dr. in Oro-Medonte Township, just north of Barrie.

Around eight hours later at 4:30 p.m., Huntsville OPP were called to Maplehurst Rd. in Lake of Bays Township when someone out for a walk spotted human remains in a ditch.


The fact that both portions of the body were found on the same day, imply that they were just quickly dumped out of a vehicle, without much attempt to hide them.
 
I just googled the 2 approximate locations. They are 123 km apart, and approximately 1 hour 40 minutes drive. Both dumping sites are about 15 - 20 km off Hwy 11 in semi-isolated locations.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=6+line+n,+oro-medonte,+simcoe+county,+ontario+l0l+2x0+to+maplehurst+dr,+lake+of+bays&sll=49.894634,-89.208984&sspn=32.341945,67.851563&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=9

Since the body was recognizable as a male and it doesn't sound like it was buried, the death must have been fairly recent.
 
Thanks for starting this thread. This case is very, very strange. The body is thought to have been dumped at the sites on Friday night or Saturday morning. The person or persons involved may have wanted the body to be discovered and the entire body hasn't been discovered yet.

OPP Const. Peter Leon said that the body parts were dumped either late Friday night or early Saturday morning.

"The remains were located relatively quickly," said Leon, who added that whoever was responsible for the "gruesome homicide" likely wanted the remains to be found.

Police say that the body hasn't been fully recovered yet. Police say that both sets of remains belong to an unidentified male victim.

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/lo...ntry-Body-100524/20100524/?hub=TorontoNewHome
 
http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100525/100525_barrel_body/20100525/?hub=CP24Home

Body parts of a white man were found Saturday in Oro-Medonte and Lake of Bays Townships in Ontario. Provincial police Const. Peter Leon said the remains were dumped either late Friday night or early Saturday morning.

Police haven't been able to identify the victim of the "horrific crime" because some parts of the body are missing, Leon said.

"This individual was dismembered, a very violent type of a death
 
<snippets>
He wouldn’t speak to the details, but one police source said the victim’s head and torso are yet to be accounted for.

The killers wanted to send a message, police say. So after killing the man, they left his body parts conspicuously strewn around Ontario’s cottage country.
Police believe the remains were dumped at the sides of roads, and the victim was killed the night before.
Coroners soon confirmed the body parts belonged to the same man, but identification is proving more problematic. “It’s going to be somewhat difficult, there are still body parts that are missing at the present time,” said Constable Leon.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/body-parts-of-slain-man-found-100-kilometres-apart/article1579657/
 
Does anyone know if there is a thread already set up for Alexandra?

Since she is not unidentified, missing, or a cold case, the thread would have to be set up in the Current Events Section.
 
Human remains found in third cottage country location
Single victim believed involved
May 30, 2010

Human remains found Friday in cottage country may be linked to those found in two separate locations May 22, the OPP said in a statement Sunday.

It’s the third discovery of human remains in the last week, with the two other grisly finds in the Oro-Medonte and Lake of Bays townships. The latest discovery was made Friday on the shoulder of Stoneleigh Road, just south of Muskoka Rd. 117, which runs between Bracebridge and Baysville by an employee of a paving contractor working in the area.

The latest remains, the OPP statement noted, “are believed to be associated to the human remains that were found” earlier. A post-mortem is scheduled for Toronto on Tuesday.

OPP confirmed last week that the remains found in the two locations earlier are from the same unidentified male victim.
 
Body parts found in three locations belong to same victim, police say

“For somebody to do what they did to those remains and then literally distribute them throughout central Ontario, as they have done, is posing a very unique set of circumstances for our investigators,” said Const. Leon.

Police sources previously denied rumours that the victim may be Paolo Renda, right-hand-man to Montreal organized crime boss Vito Rizzuto.

article contains MAP of the 3 locations:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/body-parts-found-in-three-locations-belong-to-same-victim-police-say/article1587226/

map: http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&t=h&msa=0&msid=103335406819895550235.000487eadfe61fb227a78&ll=44.707706,-78.519287&spn=3.513605,6.580811&z=7&source=embed
 
Body parts still out there: OPP
Posted By RAYMOND BOWE
Posted 5 hours ago
Provincial police say a "significant" portion of a man's dismembered body could be still out there somewhere, waiting to be found. And with it could come answers.

Part of a Caucasian man's body -- believed to be a lower torso and legs with the feet missing, based on witness accounts -- was found May 22 in Oro-Medonte Township's Sugar Bush area, north of Barrie, during the Victoria Day holiday weekend. More of his mutilated remains were found later that day in Lake of Bays Township, east of Huntsville.

A third set of remains was discovered last Friday, northeast of Bracebridge, on the shoulder of Stoneleigh Road, off Musoka Road 117, by a construction worker.

Police believe those remains were also deposited over the long weekend.

The man's identity hasn't been determined, but authorities say his body was dumped in plain view not long before the body parts were discovered. Police have said he was the victim of a homicide, although cause of death hasn't been confirmed.

Const. Peter Leon said there's a "strong belief " -- based on geography, timeline and what parts have been located -- that the most recent remains also belong to the same man.

"It's one step closer than we were the day before, but there are additional human remains yet to be located," said Leon, who wouldn't comment on what it still missing, although he did say investigators aren't yet close to having a whole body. "There's still some significant human remains yet to be located."

Investigators are awaiting results from more post-mortem tests scheduled for Tuesday at the Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto.

"Any piece of information (detectives) can get, whether it be medical-related or a tip from the public, will be welcomed by the investigators, most definitely," Leon said.

The location where Friday's remains were found was searched closely for evidence.

"There was nothing found in that immediate area," Leon said.
read more: http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2601896

This is a horrid story! :(
Reading between the lines, I'm under the impression (and this is JMO) that LE is asking for the public's help because they are missing the most important body part for dental identification purposes. MOO and I hope I'm wrong, and also hope LE (and not an unsuspecting passerby) can soon find what is still missing.
 
I agree that with you that the police do not have remains to identify through dental records. Going by the map of the location of the remains, I wouldn't be surprised if more remains are discovered off of highway 60 East towards the Quebec border. I'm sorry, but I really think this guy is the Montreal gangster. JMO. His body is not hidden and obviously the perp(s) wanted him to be discovered in pieces. JMO

http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?ie=UT...5.359865,-78.233643&spn=0.893524,2.469177&z=9
 
I agree that with you that the police do not have remains to identify through dental records. Going by the map of the location of the remains, I wouldn't be surprised if more remains are discovered off of highway 60 East towards the Quebec border. I'm sorry, but I really think this guy is the Montreal gangster. JMO. His body is not hidden and obviously the perp(s) wanted him to be discovered in pieces. JMO

http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?ie=UT...5.359865,-78.233643&spn=0.893524,2.469177&z=9

But why dump the body parts in central Ontario? Seems to me that the dumpers seem to know this part of Ontario, to a certain extent. The Horseshoe Valley Rd area site, in particular, is a bit further afield from just doing a swing along 401/11/60. That would be a lesser known recreational area to out-of-provincers than Muskoka I would think. JMO.

Definitely a mystery.

What about bikers? Are they known to 'publicize' their victims to make a statement? There are a lot of biker gangs in Ontario.
 
But why dump the body parts in central Ontario? Seems to me that the dumpers seem to know this part of Ontario, to a certain extent. The Horseshoe Valley Rd area site, in particular, is a bit further afield from just doing a swing along 401/11/60. That would be a lesser known recreational area to out-of-provincers than Muskoka I would think. JMO.

Definitely a mystery.

What about bikers? Are they known to 'publicize' their victims to make a statement? There are a lot of biker gangs in Ontario.

I'm not sure why chose to dump parts in Ontario. I forgot to mention that another reason I think it could be the gangster from Montreal is because he went missing on the Thursday before the body parts were found on the Saturday, May 22nd. The remains were 'fresh' and were estimated to have been dumped either on the Friday night or early Saturday morning. I have to search for the links but I think they may have already been posted on this thread, have to check. I also agree that it could be a biker thing. JMO
 

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