Man arrested in connection with suspicious disappearance of woman in Hemmingford, Que.
CBC
Quebec provincial police have arrested a man in his 30s in connection with a missing woman in Hemmingford, Que., whose disappearance is now a criminal investigation.
Search teams have found the body of a woman in the area where police have been looking for 29-year-old Kelsey Watt who was last seen on Saturday.
The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) are not linking the discovery to the missing person's case. Police say an autopsy will be performed to confirm the identity of the body and the cause of death.
The SQ offered few details about the man arrested, saying only that he is being interviewed by investigators to clarify his possible involvement in the case.
The investigation has been transferred to the SQ unit that handles investigations of crimes against a person.
"The more the investigation progresses, the more we are led to believe that she has been the victim of a crime," said Sgt. Audrey-Anne Bilodeau.
Watt was last seen around 12:30 p.m. Saturday on Covey Hill Road in Hemmingford, which is located in southern Quebec minutes away from the U.S. border.
Watt stands five feet six inches tall and weighs 200 pounds. Her eyes are green, and she has red hair. She was wearing a black coat when she was last seen.
Since Saturday, the SQ have set up a command post and deployed ground search teams, ATVs, divers and sniffer dogs. Hundreds of volunteers also helped in the search.
Danielle Daneau joined the search effort a day after Watt went missing. She spent Sunday checking her assigned area with a team and said it was well organized, with an SQ helicopter flying overhead.
"There were a lot of volunteers," she said. "It's just a small help on my part, because I was feeling so bad for the family. That's a nightmare for parents."
Roy Catto said he has known the Watt family for four decades. In Hemmingford, everybody knows each other and the town pulled together to help with the search, he said.
"It's real sad. It's hard to believe," he said.
Anyone with information related to the case is asked to call 911 or contact the SQ at 1-800-659-4264.
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