Bone fragment testing in Treadwell case could take a month

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Posted: Nov 27, 2012 9:02 AM ET

Last Updated: Nov 27, 2012 10:27 AM ET

DNA testing to determine if the bone fragments found during a search for the remains of a 62-year-old woman could take a month, Hamilton Police said Tuesday morning.

Police and forensic experts spent two days last week combing a field near Winona, Ont., for Shirley Treadwell's remains. Small bone fragments found by the team were sent for DNA analysis to determine if they belonged to a human or animal.

Catherine Martin, spokesperson for Hamilton Police, said investigators don't anticipate getting the test results for up to a month.

Martin wasn't able to comment on what the bone fragments look like or where in the field they were found. She told CBC Hamilton that the fragments are "very much on the small side."

Treadwell, a Stoney Creek woman who had a mental disability, is believed to have died in 2009. Police were alerted to her death in July 2012.

Her niece and caregiver, Melinda Evans, was charged in September of this year with committing an indignity to a human body and fraud. Evans allegedly disposed of her aunt's body and collected disability cheques, but police have yet to find Treadwell's remains.

The focus of last week's search was an area of about 37 acres, from Barton Street to Highway 8 and Glover Road to Jones Road.

Staff Sgt. Paul Evans said that the searchers last week were, "using a number of techniques because of this field and the terrain."

Hamilton police also called in University of Toronto forensic expert Dr. Tracy Rogers, director of forensic anthropology, and 14 of her students to help with the search. Rogers' expertise is in locating and identifying human remains and burial sites, looking for things that police might otherwise miss.

Rogers told CBC Hamilton on Monday that she and her team had completed their work, and would not be involved in the testing of the bone fragments that were found.

Hamilton police and a team of forensic experts from the University of Toronto searched a 37-acre field near Winona, Ont., on Nov. 22-23. (Google Maps)

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