CANADA Kevin Savoie, 52, St. Thomas, ON, Skeletal remains in rural property Mar '18

Elgin County OPP are investigating -- and nearby residents are hoping for answers -- after skeletal human remains were discovered at a property northwest of St. Thomas.

Police descended on the rural scene near 10194 Turner Road after human remains were discovered at a rural property in the Municipality of Central Elgin Monday. They’ve been there since.

“Yesterday, my whole street was filled up. We had firefighters, we had maybe 10 volunteer firefighters and we had maybe five OPP cruisers,” neighbour Kayla Jarry said Thursday.

“The forensics vehicle actually got stuck in our back field.”

Jarry, who lives next door to her mom on Turner Road, said the remains were found on her mother’s property by an electrical worker Monday morning around 11 a.m. Turner Road is near a large electrical substation.

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Police do not know the identity of the remains and are hoping a post-mortem scheduled for Thursday will help them in the investigation, Const. Jay Denorer said. It’s not deemed suspicious at this time, he said, but that can change.

“Pending the results (of the post-mortem), it will let us know which way the investigation is going to go,” Denorer said.

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© Google Maps A Google Maps screen grab of the area where provincial police say human remains were discovered on Tuesday.​

Provincial police received a report that remains were found in the area of Turner Road in Elgin County on Tuesday, between the St. Thomas Expressway and Waterworks Park.

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Anyone with information about the incident is urged to contact the Elgin County OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or Crime Stoppers at 1 -800-222 -TIPS (8477).

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Police believe the dog may have been starved to death.

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The Fit 4 Less black gym bag was found Thursday at around 8 a.m. in the area of CN rail tracks between Inkerman Street and Woodworth Avenue.

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[Shelley] Desrochers' family has decorated a commemorative bench in Rayner Gardens, part of the Civic Garden Complex on Springbank Drive, to honour her 44th birthday on Sunday.

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Elgin OPP have identified the skeletal remains found on a property northwest of St. Thomas last week as a man who was reported missing to police in 2016.

Police have identified the remains as belonging to Kevin Savoie, 52, of St. Thomas after a post-mortem was conducted last week.

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In a public statement issued in September 2016, St. Thomas police said Savoie was last seen at his home Sept. 9.

Police at the time investigated a tip that Savoie was staying with a friend in Aylmer, but later appealed to the public for help locating him after the search didn’t turn up the then-51-year-old.

Police say foul play is not suspected in the case but are asking anyone who knew or had contact with Savoie before his disappearance to call OPP Det. Const. Brian Watson at (519) 631-2920.

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