Boyfriend charged with 2nd-degree murder after Shalini Singh's remains found in Hamilton landfill: police
Hamilton police have charged Jeffery Smith for the second-degree murder of his common-law partner Shalini Singh, whose partial remains were found in a landfill last month.
Smith, 42, was arrested in a Burlington, Ont., parking lot on Friday, near his family's home, Det. Sgt. Daryl Reid told reporters Monday.
He was also charged with indignity to human remains, related to her body being disposed through an apartment building garbage system, Reid said.
Police believe Singh was killed on Dec. 4, after she spoke to her mother Anita Singh on the phone around 7 p.m., or in the early morning hours of Dec. 5, in the apartment where she lived with Smith.
Investigators theorized early on, after reviewing hundreds of hours of surveillance footage, that Singh never left the building alive after Dec. 4, and could've been killed and then her body disposed of. They traced the building's garbage from that time period to the Glanbrook landfill.
After months of combing through garbage, police officers found human remains on May 21, which they confirmed were Singh's through DNA testing on Friday, before charging Smith.
Singh's family has struggled waiting for answers. Her father Dalip Singh called it "sheer torture" when interviewed by CBC Hamilton in February. On Monday, police said Singh's family has requested privacy at this time to process her death.
"Even though they've waited this long and the moment has built up to this, it's still a shock to them to get the confirmation," said Reid.
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