Northern Ont. murder victim’s family gets closure after 36 years, plans family burial
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After almost four decades, the family of Agnes May Appleyard finally has closure.
After almost four decades, the family of Agnes May Appleyard finally has closure.
As reported by CTV News, Ontario Provincial Police announced this week that a skull discovered 36 years ago has been positively identified as hers.
Appleyard was 71 when she vanished without a trace from her property on Highway 520 in Emsdale on April 29, 1986. Her granddaughter, Teresa Schamehorn, was nine at the time,
“I was really close to her,” Schamehorn said.
“I just loved her to death.”
About a year after she disappeared, a search of the property uncovered a skull, but the limited technology at the time meant police couldn’t determine whether it was Appleyard.
Appleyard’s 82-year-old husband, Sidney, was charged with second-degree murder in her death in 1988. Court records and testimony from doctors and paramedics show he was abusive to his wife over many years.
