Nine years after his disappearance, the family of Cody Wolfe says his body has been found.
In a Facebook post, Wolfe’s sister Amber said it wasn’t the ending she was hoping for but that she was thankful the wondering has now come to an end.
“We’re deeply saddened by the outcome. It certainly isn’t the outcome that we had hoped for,” said Myrna LaPlante, Wolfe’s aunt.
RCMP said human remains were found May 7 on a small island on the Muskowekwan First Nation where Wolfe was last seen on the evening of April 29, 2011.
Two youth stopped on the island while searching for geese eggs on a small body of water and discovered the remains, police said.
An autopsy on May 13 confirmed it was Wolfe, and RCMP said his family was notified.
“There is an element of surprise that he was located at that particular site,” LaPlante said.
Community members, family and friends have been searching for the 17-year-old since his disappearance.
LaPlante said she thought they would find him within the first week of searching, but always came up empty handed.
“We thought maybe he is somewhere and maybe one day he will come walking through that door and be home,” she said.
He had been at his grandmother’s residence and left around 10:30 p.m. to walk to a friend’s residence approximately five miles away.
Wolfe never arrived, and his last known whereabouts were on a road north of Lestock after midnight when he stopped texting.
Roads in the area were wet, and Wolfe was on a road that had been flooded, although it appeared he had made his way around the washed-out road.
Police said the area where Wolfe’s body was discovered was submerged intermittently over the years and only recently became exposed.
RCMP said Wolfe’s death is not considered suspicious.
“If there is an upside to this, the upside is we don’t have to wait 20 or 30 years or more, forever wondering where he is,” LaPlante said.