ORO-MEDONTE, Ont. - For the third time in less than a month, a body has been found in Oro-Medonte, this time in the charred wreckage of a pickup truck off a country road.
The blaze happened Monday morning in the driveway of a house not far from Lake Simcoe Regional Airport, 15 kilometres north of Barrie.
The frozen body was still inside the vehicle yesterday, and investigators had to thaw the corpse before it could be extracted for forensic testing, fire investigator Bill Hiscott said.
"It's part of the conditions you have to deal with," he said. Firefighters didn't know there was a body in the truck Monday, Hiscott said. It wasn't until the extinguishing foam dissipated the grisly discovery was made.
"I could see the truck and the flames rising up," said neighbour Bruce Keeling."It didn't occur to me that a body could be in the vehicle."
Police said they aren't connecting this death with the recent murders of two men.
Jonathan Chambers, 21, and 31-year-old Richard Boxall -- were found in separate incidents in an area nearby.
The township area has become infamous as a dumping ground for bodies. The remains of Mimi Khonsari, the wife of a Barrie doctor, were found nearby in May 2004. Khonsari had been stabbed to death.
And a Vietnamese couple, Dung That Ton and his wife Bong Thi Bui, were found beaten and shot to death in May 2002. The couple had links to marijuana grow-ops.
