Police come up empty-handed in Shad Bay search
Posted Mar 11, 2013 05:19:20 AM.
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The search for human remains on a property at 4117 Prospect Road in Shad Bay has ended without police finding anything.
The four day, around the clock search started early Thursday with about a dozen people using shovels and buckets, and eventually saw cadaver dogs and an excavator brought in over the weekend.
Police say they were searching for human remains in connection to a major unsolved crime, but wouldn’t offer much more in the way of details other than to say the search didn’t turn up anything.
However, there are signs that suggest investigators are working on a decades old missing persons case.
Property records show the home belongs to Thomas Arthur Johnson, the brother of Andrew Paul Johnson, who’s serving time in a British Columbia prison for abduction and sexual assault.
Andrew Johnson’s name has been linked with a couple of Nova Scotia murders as well as the 1989 disappearance of Kimberly McAndrew.
According to reports, McAndrew’s family has confirmed police have contacted them in regards to a major investigation, but RCMP Sgt. Alain Leblanc is staying tight lipped.
“What I can tell you is that we’ve concluded our search at the property in Shad Bay and we did not locate human remains,” he said. “Of course the investigation continues despite the fact we did not find human remains.
He wanted to make one thing clear.
“When we talk about unsolved major cases I think it’s important for people to understand that even though these cases may be a few years old, we don’t just forget these cases, we purses all avenues of investigation whether it’s a new case or an old case,” he explained.
Leblanc added more information could be released today.
