Police identify Otonabee River Man’s identity 36 years later [Video]

Police have identified a man whose skull was found almost 40 years ago in a Peterborough-area river.

In a release, police said the human remains are those of Gerald Durocher, who would have been 38 years old at the time of his death.

Recreational divers located the man’s skull about 130 feet from shore on July 10, 1988, in the Otonabee River near Lock and McKeller streets in Peterborough.

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At the time, when they conducted a post-mortem examination, police said they could only determine the skull belonged to a man and that he was a victim of homicide.

Though officers said they extensively searched underwater and in the air for the remainder of his body, it was never recovered.

Just over three years ago, Peterborough Police Service (PPS) said they submitted evidence to Othram – a Texas-based lab that leverages forensic genealogy to solve cold cases – and the Ontario …