Vancouver Police find the body of Natsumi Kogawa
Posted September 30, 2016 10:45 am.
Last Updated October 1, 2016 10:21 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – A sad end to the search for a Japanese ESL student missing for three weeks.
Her remains are the ones found on the grounds of Gabriola House mansion in Vancouver’s West End Wednesday evening.
Forty-eight-year-old William Schneider is charged with indignity to a body. He has no fixed address.
He is the person in the surveillance footage released by Burnaby RCMP earlier in the search.
He was arrested in Vernon on the same day Natsumi Kogawa’s body was found. Police add there are no other suspects.
RCMP Sergeant Annie Linteau knows there are a lot of questions here still, but this is still an ongoing investigation.
“Our priority is to conduct a thorough investigation and we’re not prepared to jeopardize that. All that I can say is that he was arrested by the Northern Okanagan RCMP.”
We don’t know if Kogawa was murdered – an autopsy will happen Monday.
Kogawa was reported missing September 12th.
Acting Sgt. Brian Montague says there were reasons for the delay in releasing information about this case.
“Her family was notified in Japan. That was part of the delay in the next-of-kin notification.”
Police determined Kogawa was last seen on September 8th in Vancouver.
