RCMP are still waiting for test results in their investigations into the separate discoveries of possible human remains in a jar in Lunenburg County, and of a woman’s body in Kings County.
Cpl. Dal Hutchinson said the July 11 discovery of the woman’s body in a field behind a home on Saxons Street in Sheffield Mills is still an ongoing investigation by the Southwest Nova major crimes unit.
Police and paramedics were called shortly after 6:30 a.m. for a reported cardiac arrest and found the deceased woman about 15 metres behind the home, which was surrounded by farm fields.
Hutchinson said that while the major crimes unit is also still investigating the remains in the jar, the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner’s Office is now the lead investigator on the file.
He said police “have not made a determination about any criminality at this time.”
A spokeswoman for the Medical Examiner’s Office would only say the office is still investigating. Shewouldn’t say whether or not a determination hasbeen made that the remains are human, whether or
not there was any information on where they may have come from, or if anything else had been found at the site.
On July 26, a worker using an excavator behind the Lunenburg wastewater treatment facility on Starr Street found a jar that contained what police described as “unconfirmed human remains.”
Police said at the time that the jar was about 15 centimetres high and eight centimetres in diameter and appeared to have been buried for a significant period of time, but was “not archeological” in nature.
