OPP have laid a murder charge against a man in connection with the finding of human remains in Elliot Lake last winter.
On February 14, East Algoma Detachment officers found human remains in a wooded that were those of a missing person, Joseph Topping, 31, from Elliot Lake.
Then on February 26, a post-mortem examination was concluded causing investigators to classify the death of Topping, as a homicide.
On August 20, police arrested a man in relation to this case.
Brad Fabian Southwind, 23, of Elliot Lake, is charged with: first degree murder.