A woman remained in custody Friday following the bizarre discovery of a body in a Scarborough home earlier this week.
CTV Toronto's Tamara Cherry said police were called to a home in the Warden Avenue and Huntingwood Drive area Wednesday after a man's body was found partially wrapped in a blanket.
Police will not say how the man died, and have not confirmed whether he was murdered.
Neighbours said the landlord who lived upstairs heard the man yelling from the basement about a week before his body was found.
But when they did not see him or hear from him after that, the landlord asked the man's wife where he was. She allegedly told them he returned to Hong Kong.
However, on Wednesday, the landlord noticed the wife moving belongings out of the basement apartment. Neighbour William Zhang and his wife entered the apartment while she was out, and found two feet sticking out from beneath a yellow blanket.
Around that time, the wife returned to the apartment, and allegedly told a neighbour that the man suffered a heart attack.
The wife was arrested and charged with performing an indignity to a body. An autopsy was performed and a cause of death was determined.
She remains in custody.
Neighbours said little was known about the man and his wife.
"Only last week I saw a woman and a child walking down there, but I thought they were just coming to visit. I have never seen them before actually," Reem Helmy told CTV Toronto.
Police said the man was in his 40s, but are not releasing his name as police are still working with the Chinese consulate to notify next of kin in China.
With a report by CTV Toronto's Tamara Cherry
