IT may still be several weeks before investigators know the identity of the body found last weekend in North Vancouver's Lower Capilano neighbourhood, according to police.
The remains, discovered Aug. 20 just west of Capilano Road, were autopsied Wednesday, but police still haven't turned up a name and have not determined how the victim died, said Cpl. Richard De Jong, a spokesman for the North Vancouver RCMP.
"We are utilizing all forensic investigative techniques to determine identity," he said. De Jong could not say whether the victim was a man or a woman.
Police came across the body at about 5: 45 p.m. after a neighbour reported a foul smell. Investigators found the decomposing remains in a wooded space off a gravel foot path that links Curling Road with Belle Isle Place.
Because of the way the body had been concealed, police are treating the death as suspicious. The RCMP's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is now in charge of the case.
"Once identity is made, if it's a missing person we can go back possibly to when they were reported," said De Jong.
