More than 36 years after a dismembered human head was found in an Ontario river, Peterborough police say they finally have a breakthrough.
The homicide of the Otonabee River man – revealed on Wednesday to be Gerald Durocher – has mystified investigators ever since the grisly discovery was made by members of a recreational dive club more than three decades ago.
It was on July 10, 1988, when the divers took to those waters in Peterborough and found a human head at the bottom of the Otonabee River some 130 feet from shore.
Shortly after the discovery, which was made near Lock and McKellar streets, police launched an extensive air and underwater search to locate the rest of the body. However, to this day, it was never found.
On its website, police said that through investigation at the time, they determined the head belonged to a man roughly between 40 to 74 years of age.
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