Manitoba

Police suspect homicide in woman's death

The death of an aboriginal woman whose remains were found earlier this week in East St. Paul is being treated as a homicide, police said Saturday.

The death of an aboriginal woman whose remains were found earlier this week in East St. Paul is being treated as a homicide, police said Saturday.

The remains have been identified as those of Hillary Angel Wilson, 18. An autopsy has been performed, but the cause of death has not been revealed.

Police were notified of the body in a phone call Aug. 20 from a boy, 14, who was walking his dog. The woman's remains were found on a dirt path in a sparsely populated area near the intersection of Winnipeg's North Perimeter Highway and Highway 59.

With files from the Canadian Press