Identified! Canada - Lake Ontario, Highway 33 & County Road 6, Amherstview, Ont., human remains removed from submerged blue car, May 2023 - David Hannah

[dotr]

May 4 2023

Human remains fully removed from car after being submerged in Lake Ontario for years | Globalnews.ca

Ontario Provincial Police say human remains and a vehicle found in Lake Ontario were probably in the water for years. Now the process of identifying them begins in earnest.

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''A painstaking recovery process continued to unfold in Lake Ontario for a second day.

Police divers in Amherstview, Ont., have now recovered human remains found inside a submerged car.

It’s believed the car plunged into the water along Highway 33 and County Road 6 several years ago.

It took all of Wednesday for provincial police divers to remove human remains from the vehicle.''

'By midday Thursday, the vehicle itself was slowly lifted out of the water. Covered with debris and heavily damaged, the make and model is difficult to identify, but the blue colour of the paint is visible.'

“The next step will be to send the human remains for forensic examination, and for the vehicle to be examined closer, to figure out what kind of vehicle it is,” says Const. Shannon Cork with the Lennox & Addington OPP.

''Missing persons cases will be re-examined to look for a fit — for example, the case of Amherstview resident David Hannah, who went missing in 1983 and was driving a blue 1969 Delta 88.

At this early stage of the investigation, no such connection can be made, but police say the underwater discovery is likely related to a missing person’s case.''

 

[Bopit]

More info on the case, looks like they presume he was murdered, but it may simply be a case of having a submerged vehicle. That said, if he left Amherstview heading towards Bath, he would have been parallel to the water, rather than heading directly towards it.

 

[dotr]

More info on the case, looks like they presume he was murdered, but it may simply be a case of having a submerged vehicle. That said, if he left Amherstview heading towards Bath, he would have been parallel to the water, rather than heading directly towards it.

Just got a thread started for him..

CANADA - Canada- David Manuel Hannah, 37, prison guard @ Millhaven Institution, went missing enroute to work, Kingston, Ont. 4 Jan. 1983

David Hannah was last seen on Jan. 4, 1983. Police believe he was murdered. 2011 https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/50-000-reward-offered-in-eastern-ontario-cold-case-1.616015 ''The provincial government is offering a $50,000-reward for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons who...

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[musicaljoke]

I had to do a map search to find out that Amherstview is just a bit south-west of Ottawa.

 

[Bopit]

I had to do a map search to find out that Amherstview is just a bit south-west of Ottawa.

About 2.5 hours of highway driving away, fairly close

 

[dotr]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/police-human-remains-vehicle-lake-ontario-kingston-1.6830519

''Ontario Provincial Police say they found a vehicle with human remains inside, which had been in the water for "many years," while searching Lake Ontario near Kingston for a completely different vehicle earlier this year.

In a news release sent Wednesday, the police detachment for Lennox and Addington counties said the original discovery was made in January and the remains — which have not been identified — were confirmed last month.

Det.-Const. Shannon Cork said the vehicle was found covered in debris, making it clear it's been on the bottom of the lake for some time.

The way the remains were found was unusual, the officer said, adding she had never before come across this type of discovery during her 21-year career in policing.

"Who knows how many years would have gone by if we hadn't had that incident in January?" Cork said.

A barge with an excavator and police officers, including two divers in cold-water gear, could be seen floating in the water a little ways from shore near two red buoys on Wednesday.''

Divers prepare to recover the vehicle and human remains. (Dan Taekema/CBC)

 

[Bopit]

Just looking at the car here, that's a pretty particular shade of blue. for reference, this is the model of car David Hannah drove:

 

[bombardier]

Just looking at the car here, that's a pretty particular shade of blue. for reference, this is the model of car David Hannah drove:View attachment 420012

Beautiful car! Certainly looks consistent with the wreck seen in post #1.

 

[dotr]

IDENTIFIED as David M. Hannah.!

CANADA - Canada- David Manuel Hannah, 37, prison guard @ Millhaven Institution, went missing enroute to work, Kingston, Ont. 4 Jan. 1983

David Hannah was last seen on Jan. 4, 1983. Police believe he was murdered. 2011 https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/50-000-reward-offered-in-eastern-ontario-cold-case-1.616015 ''The provincial government is offering a $50,000-reward for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons who...

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[AzPistonsGirl]

wow! This should be read by all the WSers who give up when someone hasn't been found after 2 weeks or a month. Sometimes they dig their heels into a theory or a person and assume guilt when really, something like this is totally plausible. Amazing.

 

[Bopit]

Hoping this brings some closure to his family and the community. I've spent lots of time in the area with an ex-boyfriend who was coincidentally a prison guard at a nearby institution, this is one of those stories that everyone knows about in the area. Nice to see it come to an end, even with a sad result. And to think, without the search in January, they might not have found him.

 

[Sillybilly]

A little OT, but couldn't help but think of the old 2006 case of the female UID found near the Darlington Nuclear Plant. That case always bothered me.

Canada - Bowmanville, Ont, Black/S. AsianFem 18-30, 90UFON, near freeway, Oct'06​

Bowmanville is about 1.5 hrs / 183 kms to Amherstview, and there aren't a lot of old, unsolved cases from eastern Ontario in that time period. Could be nothing, but with David's employment as a prison guard and the numerous contacts he must have had in that capacity, just wondering if there could be any connection to prisons, prisoners, and our UID.