The militants released the video Tuesday showing fellow Canadian Robert Hall and two other hostages pleading for the Canadian and Philippine government to meet the demands of the terror group.

The scene was all too familiar in a Southeast Asian nation that has struggled with ransom kidnappings by the Islamic militants for years, except for two things.

Philippine forensic experts are checking if a headless Caucasian man's body found by villagers in a southern province is that of a Canadian hostage beheaded by Muslim extremists.