Search suspended in Niagara River torso case
Posted September 6, 2012 1:08 pm.
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Police have suspended their ground and water search for more evidence after a woman’s torso was found in the Niagara River last week.
Niagara police expanded on Wednesday their search both of the water and along the shoreline from Kingsbridge Park in Chippewa to Fort Erie. But they said Thursday that no further evidence was recovered.
Police said no further searches were immediately planned.
On Aug. 29, tourists spotted a headless and limbless torso in the lower Niagara River near the Rainbow Bridge. Preliminary autopsy results indicate the woman was 31-55 years old and that she had had two C-sections plus a tubal ligation.
Police believe she was murdered. But they have ruled out the possibility that the torso may belong to Guang Hua Liu, 41, of Scarborough who was dismembered last month. Some of her body parts were located in a ravine in Toronto and a park in Mississauga but her torso is still missing.
On Wednesday morning, a badly decomposed torso was found in a suitcase floating in Lake Ontario near Bluffer’s Park in Scarborough by two jet skiers. An autopsy was being conducted Thursday afternoon.
Police said it was so badly decomposed that they couldn’t tell if it was male or female. Furthermore, they couldn’t say if the torso belonged to Liu until the tests were completed.
