A cold case more than two decades old has been solved after new DNA technology was used by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) to identify the remains of a man found near a southwestern Ontario town in 2003.
Police have been actively attempting to identify the body for 21 years, despite determining the death was not suspicious. It wasn’t until last fall that the mystery was officially solved.
The John Doe has been identified as 48-year-old James Raymond Stewart of Detroit, Michigan, who went missing in November 2002, police said in a Jan. 6 press release.
James Raymond Stewart (OPP handout photo)
Stewart’s body was recovered by police from the Livingston Channel Detroit River, just west of Amherstburg, Ont., on May 29, 2003….