Body found on Riverside golf course a woman
Autopsy unable to dermine cause of death
EDMONTON - An autopsy on a woman whose body was found Thursday on a municipal golf course could not determine how she died, police say.
Now, police hope toxicology tests will reveal what caused the death of the unidentified woman, who police initially believed was a man.
“When EPS got to the scene, it appeared that it was a male body that was there, and after the autopsy was concluded it was a female body,” police spokeswoman Noreen Remtulla said Friday.
“Homicide detectives are working on identifying this female ... We don’t know who she is yet.”
Staff at the Riverside Golf Course found the body Thursday around 12:45 p.m. while cleaning the area near the course’s 18th hole. The employees of the golf course located on Rowland Road, east of downtown, alerted police.
The woman was found in a lightly treed area that is not accessible to public vehicles but is near pedestrian pathways.
Police said it appeared the body had come to be there “fairly recently.”
The death is being treated as suspicious, Remtulla said.
