Remains found in car submerged in Lake Ontario of man missing since 1983: OPP
Posted May 17, 2023 12:45 pm.
Last Updated May 17, 2023 3:32 pm.
Police in Ontario confirmed on Wednesday that the human remains found inside a car in Lake Ontario earlier this year are of a former prison guard who was reported missing four decades ago.
Investigators say the Lennox and Addington County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was pulling a vehicle out of the lake in January when they found another nearby car with human remains inside.
During a follow-up investigation last month, it was determined that the vehicle contained human remains and had been in the water for several years.
OPP established that the remains belong to David Hannah, who was reported missing in 1983, aged 36.
In 2011, police said they believed a man named David Hannah, who had gone missing around the same time, was murdered and announced a $50,000 reward for information that led to his killer.
Police said that year Hannah, an Indigenous man, was employed at a maximum-security prison, the Millhaven Federal Institution, in Bath, Ont., and had gone missing along with his blue 1969 Oldsmobile Delta 88.
Hannah was from Amherstview, Ontario, a township on Lake Ontario’s north shore.
