Niagara police say they’ve confirmed the identity of human remains found in August in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., as a Toronto man who was reported missing in 2022 and that his death was determined to be a homicide.

The Niagara Regional Police Service homicide unit says the remains were found on Aug. 31 at approximately 2 p.m. Officers responded to an unidentified human remains call in an area near Read Road and the shore of Lake Ontario.

Police determined a human skull had been discovered, prompting police to secure the area and detectives to take over the investigation with support from the NRPS forensic services unit.

A few days later on Sept. 3, full skeletal remains were recovered and detectives began work with the coroner’s office and Ontario Forensic Pathology Service to try to

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