Toronto Police say they may have found further remains in Scarborough after locating what looked like a human leg in the same area yesterday.
Const. Wendy Drummond said a bag containing evidence was found by a creek near Kennedy Road and Sheppard Avenue around 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
A coroner and an anthropologist are on the scene to help police determine if the evidence is from a human body.
Remains were found in the area yesterday and Toronto police are still working to determine whether they are human or animal. They are also working with Peel Regional police to determine if there is any connection to the discovery of body parts in a Mississauga park earlier this week.
Mississauga search continues
In the meantime a team of about 30 to 50 Peel police officers will spend at least a few more days scouring a Mississauga park for body parts, Const. George Tudos said.
Tudos made the comment to CP24 Sunday afternoon as officers spent a fifth day searching through Hewick Meadows Park and the Credit River for any sort of evidence that could help them determine how a severed human head, foot and two hands ended up in the area.
“We are still conducting our searches on foot and in the water as well,” Tudos said. “It’s been a few days now but we still have the same amount of officers and we are going to continue the search until we are satisfied that we have gathered all the evidence or until we have had the chance to go through this park thoroughly."
Officers have been searching a 4 kilometre area of the Credit River from sunrise to sunset since hikers spotted a human foot along the riverbank Wednesday morning.
Since that macabre discovery, police have also found a human head and two hands nearby and are awaiting forensic test results to find out if all four body parts belonged to the same victim.
“We are hoping to get that information shortly,” Tudos told CP24 Sunday.
Meanwhile, Toronto police are still trying to determine whether remains found near Kennedy Road north of Cardwell Ave Saturday night are human and whether they may be related to the body parts found in Mississauga.
Speaking with CP24, Tudos urged anyone who sees anything suspicious to contact police.
“This park is rather large and there are going to be people travelling through the waterways and we are asking that if they do see anything suspicious to contact us and we will send an officer to collect the evidence and see whether or not it may be connected to this case.,” he said.
