Autopsy results expected Friday on head found in Edmonton

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Posted October 25, 2012 4:18 pm.

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EDMONTON (NEWS1130) – Autopsy results are expected to be released Friday on a human head found in an Edmonton alley.
    
City police say the autopsy was delayed Thursday afternoon.
    
A woman found the head while walking in a northeast neighbourhood Wednesday morning.
    
Investigators are trying to determine whether it belongs to the body of a man found in a rural area east of the city on the weekend.
    
Local media say residents of Ranfurly have been talking about how the body was decapitated and found lying in a ditch next to a running pickup truck.
    
An autopsy was performed on that body Monday and the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide.

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