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Haunting 911 call plumber made after discovering human flesh in pipes

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Published 11:24 25 Aug 2024 GMT+1

Haunting 911 call plumber made after discovering human flesh in pipes

The 2017 case shocked the community of Oshawa, Ontario and is one of the worst crimes to come out of the country

Britt Jones

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Topics: Crime, True crime, Canada, News

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When plumbers were called out to snake a drain, they couldn’t have imaged that it’d lead to a murder investigation after finding a ‘flesh-like substance’.

There’s nothing gristlier than stumbling upon a crime scene, but it could only be worse if you didn’t even know what it was at the time of handling the strange material.

That’s the unfortunate reality of two plumbers who were called to a home in Oshawa, Ontario on December 29, 2017.

The men, who were tasked with unclogging a drain uncovered between ten to ‘fifteen pounds’ of a fleshy substance and immediately called the cops, explaining that they didn’t know what it was.

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It was thanks to this call that Adam Strong was charged and served justice for his horrific crimes against two young women.

Here’s the chilling conversation the one of the plumbers had with police:

As it turns out, the substance they had been pulling through the drain was in fact, flesh.

When the cops arrived at the scene and were handed a shopping bag full of the ‘fleshy like substance’, Constable Kevin Park was stumped.

He explained to the courts that he’d ‘never seen anything like this before so I wasn’t sure’.

This led him and two other officers to go to the home of Strong, who lived in the basement of the property to find out what he had put down the toilet, after his upstairs neighbors had complained that waste was backing up into their bathroom.

Kandis Fitzpartick. (Durham Regional Police)
Kandis Fitzpartick. (Durham Regional Police)

When Park asked him what the substance was, he allegedly uttered his chilling confession.

“OK, you got me, the gig’s up, it’s a body.

“If you want to recover the rest of her, it’s in my freezer.”

According to identification, what was in the drainpipe was human flesh belonging to an 18-year-old girl who had gone missing from her hometown just months prior to the call out, Canadian Press reported.

Rori Hache was homeless and struggled with drug addiction prior to her gristly fate at Strong’s basement apartment.

She had been taken to the hospital by a friend’s mother after allegedly suffering a mental health crisis, but was left in the waiting room on her own, where she walked out and was never seen again.

However, she wasn’t the only person who had been murdered by the monster as 19-year-old Kandis Fitzpatrick, who disappeared in 2008 was positively identified as having been in the basement, through DNA evidence found on a hunting knife in Strong’s freezer and in his bedroom, according to a report filed in court.

While investigators found the rest of Hache’s remains inside a large freezer, her blood was found in Strong’s bedroom walls and ceiling.

Strong was convicted of murder and manslaughter. (Facebook)
Strong was convicted of murder and manslaughter. (Facebook)

Fitzpatrick’s body was nowhere to be seen, even though her blood was found on items and areas of the bedroom.

Because her body was dismembered and with some parts missing, Hache’s cause of death couldn’t be determined, despite her skull showing two fractures.

The prosecutor disclosed that fishermen found her torso in the Oshawa Harbour on September 11 that year, the Canadian Press reported.

The most heartbreaking part of it all may be that Hache was pregnant at the time of her murder, according to her aunt Michelle Guindon, and she was ‘so loved’ according to her mother, Shanan Dionne.

Fitzpatrick’s dad, William, confirmed that his daughter also struggled with drugs and that he misses her and wants to find her remains.

Strong was convicted of the murder of Hache and manslaughter of Fitzpatrick in 2021, which earned him a life sentence.

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