{"id":774056,"date":"2026-07-01T21:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774056\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:02:13","slug":"ontario-man-missing-since-1988-identified-as-toronto-motorcycle-crash-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774056\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario man missing since 1988 identified as Toronto motorcycle crash victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Police say a man who went missing almost four decades ago from a city in southwestern Ontario has been identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Ontario Provincial Police force says 19-year-old Bradley Verbeek was reported missing in March 1988 and had been last seen in London in December 1987.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They say investigators last year obtained information suggesting Verbeek was involved in a fatal motorcycle crash in Toronto in May 1988.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say he was buried at the time as an unknown person, but recent DNA testing confirmed his identity and his family was notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Insp. Nathan Parker says, while tragic, the outcome reflects that police are committed to bringing families closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Verbeek\u2019s family, in a statement provided by police, says after years living in limbo they are \u201cprofoundly grateful\u201d to finally have answers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Police say a man who went missing almost four decades ago from a city in southwestern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,11867,3302],"class_list":["post-774056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ontario-quebec","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774056","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=774056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}