According to their daughter, she asked not to reveal her name for privacy reasons, and her father had been looking for a pump in the water tank. Instead, he found a brown shoe tied to his leg protruding from the mud.

“They found the body, so their memory of finding it is not good, so they never talked about it,” said their 65-year-old daughter who lives in Toffield.

“I always thought [the killer] It will be the locals, because they must know where the septic tank is. “

Her parents drove to the RCMP detachment and talked to the now retired RCMP sergeant. Ed Lammerts who accompanied them and another police officer to the scene.

Ramertz was a corporal in the RCMP detachment and is now 80 years old. When contacted by phone on June 23, Lammertz told Fifth Manor He doesn’t believe this case will be solved.

“He was dumped and they burned him to death,” he said. “You can’t tell if [the victim] Is it male or female. Who has the ability to attack such a person? It’s a bit difficult for me. “

According to newspaper reports at the time, an autopsy in 1977 showed that the victim had died of painful death. He was tied up, sexually cut by a sharp object, burned and beaten before being shot in the chest and head.

According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police website, the victim was white, aged between 26 and 32 years old, about 5 feet 6 inches tall, of medium build, brown hair, and weighing about 154 pounds.

He was wearing a blue Levi’s shirt, gray T-shirt, blue jeans and brown shoes when he was found.

Body rolled into pieces

The corpse was wrapped in yellow sheets, tied with nylon rope, and then dumped upside down in a 1.8-meter-deep septic tank at McLeods Farm, which is about 65 kilometers southeast of Edmonton.

Ramertz said he believes the murderer is now dead, but said that if he is still alive, he is unlikely to face justice.

“how is it [are] Lammerts said. “Are you going to send an 82-year-old man to prison now?” An 82-year-old man killed someone 50 years ago. What do you do? ”

The RCMP Headquarters in Ottawa did not respond to a request to confirm that they have resolved the case.

David Mittelman, a geneticist and CEO of Othram Inc., a private laboratory in Texas, declined to comment on whether his company was involved.

Othram focuses on the recovery and analysis of human DNA from degraded or contaminated forensic evidence.They also conduct genealogical studies, trying to determine who the DNA belongs to for police agencies in Canada and the United States. They first Make headlines After they identified the unknown murderer of the 9-year-old Christine Jessop in 1984, they were in Canada.

McLeods’ daughter said she knew that the RCMP had started handling the case again in the past two years because she was asked to be interviewed.

Septic Sam is buried in an unmarked grave in Edmonton Cemetery.

If there are unidentified human remains from your town or city living with you, please send an email [email protected]. Fifth Manor A report on the gap in identifying unidentified human remains in Canada is being produced for the upcoming documentary.