{"id":132472,"date":"2025-09-10T00:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132472\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T00:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:22:06","slug":"huaman-remains-fund-in-niarage-are-the-result-of-a-homicide-victim-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132472\/","title":{"rendered":"HUaman remains fund in Niarage are the result of a homicide, victim unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/niagara\/2025\/09\/04\/homicide-unit-investigating-after-human-remains-found-in-niagara-on-the-lake\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/niagara\/2025\/09\/04\/homicide-unit-investigating-after-human-remains-found-in-niagara-on-the-lake\/\">human remains recently found in Niagara-on-the-Lake<\/a> are the result of a homicide, however they have yet to identify a victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Niagara Regional Police Service (NRPS) are describing the deceased as a Black male, 18 to 22 years old, between five-foot-10 and six-foot-three with a muscular build.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHomicide investigators have been working closely with the NRPS Missing Persons and Unidentified Human Remains Coordinator and have determined that the current description of the victim does not match any known outstanding missing persons within the Niagara Region,\u201d police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said they believe the incident, which they are calling \u201csuspicious,\u201d happened between late 2021 and the spring of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They added that this ongoing investigation is \u201cparticularly complex\u201d due to the decomposed condition of the remains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAs a result, forensic and postmortem examinations remain ongoing,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with further information is asked to contact police at 905-688-4111, dial option 3, ext. 1009417, or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say human remains recently found in Niagara-on-the-Lake are the result of a homicide, however they have yet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-132472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}