
DNA helps solve historic human remains case in Lloydminster
Science has helped solve the mystery of who a set of human remains found near Lloydminster in 1997 belonged to.
A man’s body was found near the North Saskatchewan River in November of 1997. The Coroner’s investigation found nothing criminal but also nothing to identify who the remains belonged to.
DNA was collected but did not match with anything at the time, and a sample was left in the National DNA Data Bank of Canada for possible future resolution.
Decades later, the mystery of whose body was found has been solved after the Edmonton Police Service revived a cold case of their own.