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National Post
9 hours ago
- National Post
Police find missing woman's remains in Hamilton landfill, charge common-law partner with her murder
A 42-year-old man is facing a murder charge after police confirmed partial human remains found last month in a Hamilton landfill are those of a woman who was last heard from in December. Article content Hamilton police say DNA test results confirmed on Friday the remains found on May 21 are those of Shalini Singh. Article content Det. Sgt. Daryl Reid says Jeffery Smith from Burlington, Ont., was arrested in a parking lot later on Friday, and he was charged with second-degree murder. Article content He says the accused was Singh's common-law partner at the time, and police believe she was killed in her apartment before her body was removed through the building's garbage system. Article content Article content The charges have not been tested in court. Article content Singh was initially reported missing in December alongside Smith, but police said he showed up at a family member's house outside the city the next day and has allegedly refused to co-operate with the investigation. Police have said they obtained surveillance footage from the apartment building where the couple lived and there's no video of Singh leaving after Dec. 4, the day her family last heard from her. Article content Police had been searching the Glanbrook landfill since late February. Article content Reid said the search is ongoing, but the current heat wave may delay those efforts. Article content Singh's family has been informed about the discovery of her remains and is receiving support from the force's victim services unit, police said. Article content
CBC
10 hours ago
- CBC
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.
