A man has been charged with indignity to human remains after a body was found inside a Maple Ridge home that was the subject of a missing person investigation.

Mylie Barron is currently in police custody, said Staff Sgt. David Lee with the Integrated Homicide Investigations Team, (IHIT), the agency that has now taken over the investigation into the whereabouts of 43-year-old Jessica Cunningham.

Ridge Meadows RCMP put out a missing persons alert last week for Cunningham, saying the Maple Ridge woman was last seen or heard from in June.

As part of their search, they went to the house in the 22800 block of Gillis Place on Tuesday, Aug. 26, where they discovered human remains.

The Lower Mainland District Regional Police Service's forensics team and IHIT descended on that same house at the

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