Human remains found on Stoney Creek mountain

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Police were called to Paramount Park, at the edge of the Niagara escarpment, after the remains were found on a steep section of the Bruce Trail on Sunday night. The decomposed body was found on a densely wooded slope that has made for a challenging investigation by police.

Throughout the day, they have been removing bags of evidence from the area, assisted by the coroner’s office. They’ve scheduled an autopsy for tomorrow morning but at the moment, they can’t determine the cause of death, or even how long the body may have been there. The case has been turned over to the central detectives office and police will be holding the scene at Paramount Park at least overnight and perhaps for another day or two.

At the moment there are roughly 30 missing person cases in Hamilton, all of them several years old. 8 are currently listed on the Hamilton Police Service website, of those cases one of the most recent is the 2004 disappearance of Roy George Taylor. He left his home adjacent to the Bruce Trail here in Stoney Creek, on April 2nd 2004, and hasn’t been seen since. At one point police believed that the 72 year old Taylor may have planned his own disappearance, but no trace of his whereabouts has ever been discovered.

Police cannot yet determine the age or gender of the person whose remains were found here, nor can they say just how long the body may have been lying near the trail. Some of those questions may be answered following the autopsy tomorrow.