Digby County RCMP have identified the human remains found on a beach in September.
On September 8, 2019, a body was found on the beach in Sandy Cove in Digby County.
Corporal Jennifer Clarke says “we worked with the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service and the remains have been identified through DNA analysis. The deceased, a 43-year-old man from Saint John, New Brunswick, had was reported missing late last summer.”
The circumstances of the death are not suspicious.
The investigation was included in an RCMP initiative in partnership with the New York Academy of Art to reconstruct the faces of Canadian unidentified human remains.
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