Body ID’d as missing Stillman

BY WENDY ELLIOTT

Kings County Register

A man walking a dog along the Cornwallis River near Kentville the evening of April 15 discovered human remains.

Military police called in RCMP and Kentville police after the body was recovered on DND property.

RCMP Cst. Les Kakonyi said the body may have washed up recently, but the partially-clothed man had been dead for some time.

April 21, Kentville Cpl. Ken Reid said the man was identified after forensic testing in Halifax with assistance from the Medical Examiner’s office.

Kentville police and search and rescue volunteers had searched the banks of the river Monday and Tuesday last week for a missing man, but would not confirm until April 22 a renewed search for or the discovery of the remains as those of Owen Stillman.

Stillman, 60, of Canaan, checked out of Soldiers Memorial Hospital in Middleton August 23, 2007 and took a Kings Transit bus to Kentville. He got off of the bus at the transit terminal downtown, the last place he was seen. A memorial service will be held April 27 at 2 p.m. in Cheverie United Church.