Montreal - Canadian police found on Thursday the
head from what is believed to be a woman's dismembered body in eastern
Ontario province near Toronto, after retrieving a severed foot from the
same river.
Officials at the coroner's office are attempting to
determine whether the body parts found in the Credit River belong to the
same person, and how old and tall the victim may have been.
The nails of the cut-off foot were painted with yellow polish, which suggests the foot belonged to a woman.
After
the grisly discovery police launched a search in the area to try to
find other body parts, but only the head was recovered after 24 hours.
Divers and sniffer dogs helped investigators search through Hewick
Meadows Park near Toronto.
"Without a cause of death, we can't
call it homicide, but certainly foul play - there's definitely something
amiss," said acting inspector Randy Cowan of Peel Regional Police.
The
case is brings to mind the "Canadian Psycho", a male ex-porn star
suspected of killing a Chinese student with an ice pick in Montreal in
May, then carving up the victim's body, sexually abusing the corpse and
filming the act, before posting the video online.
The suspect in that murder, Luka Rocco Magnotta, is in jail awaiting a trial scheduled for early next year.