Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) found human remains in a car located at the bottom of Lake Ontario earlier this year and identified them as those of David Hannah, a prison guard who went missing in 1983.
Back in January, during an underwater search for a separate, unrelated vehicle, police divers found a car submerged in Lake Ontario, CBC News reported. They had found the vehicle below pieces of debris, giving police an indication that it might have been there for several years.
This week, the OPP confirmed that the human remains found belonged to Hannah and that they would continue investigating the situation.
“We hope that this gives some measure of resolution to his family,” OPP spokesperson Bill Dickson said according to CBC News. “I don’t know if you can call it luck or not, to actually have been in that area and [have] been able to make the connection to find this other vehicle.”
Hannah had gone missing on Jan. 4, 1983, and was last seen in Kingston, Ontario, according to the RCMP’s National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains.
There had been different reports regarding Hannah’s whereabouts including an article that claimed he had been seen in the 1990s. Police initially offered $50,000 for any information that could lead to him being found but no concrete evidence ever popped up.
