WINNIPEG – RCMP are again searching the limestone quarry where the remains of Michael Kalanza were found in 1997. Kalanza was 80 years old when he went missing from Faulkner, Man., in 1985.
Police have performed an extensive review of the case, the RCMP said in a news release Wednesday. Inquiries in the community yielded new information and advanced DNA tests and further forensic analysis using new techniques have also been done, the news release says.
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RCMP are also doing another forensic search of the Spearhill limestone quarry in the Interlake, about 25 kilometres southeast of Faulkner. The two Manitoba Interlake communities are about 200 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.
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Kalanza’s body was found in 1997 by a group of Grade 9 students from Ashern Central School on a field trip to the quarry. DNA testing identified Kalanza in 1999, RCMP media relations officer Tara Seel said Wednesday.
The family of the retired man still lives in Manitoba and is in touch with police, Seel said.
“They are being kept apprised of the situation.”
Anthropologists have helped police with the investigation, and much of the information the RCMP have gleaned about the case has come from forensic examination of the evidence, police said.
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