Murders were committed near Connor Road, police say

The murders of Melody Burtis and her son Harley Baxter-Burtis didn't happen at Old Greenwood Cemetery.

Neither did they happen in the four-plex where Melody lived at 113 Salisbury Avenue (shown) near Bruce Street, even though investigators initially thought that might be the case.

When police picked up 33-year-old Albert Francis Ouimet a little after 4 a.m. yesterday, after vigilant patrol officers saw him at the cemetery on Peoples Road running away from a vehicle in which they found Melody and Harley's slashed bodies, they initially had no idea where the crime occurred.

Extensive forensic work at the big house at Salisbury and Laurier Place provided no evidence that it was the scene of the crime.

Yesterday afternoon, more vigilant officers scouring the northern rural areas north of the City uncovered what police now believe is the crime scene, in a remote portion of Connor Road.

City Police deployed their own crime-scene investigators there, with assistance from at staff from the Northern Forensic Lab on Bay Street as well as numerous other searchers.

And they did find evidence there last night that they say points to the Connor Road neighbourhood, nine kilometres from Old Greenwood Cemetery, as the place where Melody and Harley were slain.

Meanwhile, the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service announced this afternoon that more information about the case will be disclosed at a news conference at 2 p.m. Monday.

"With the continuation of the investigation, further charges are expected to be laid against 33-year old Albert Ouimet of no fixed address," a police statement said.

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