Vancouver Police: East Vancouver

Forensic Science Dept: On March 8, Vancouver police aided by faculty and students from Simon Fraser University's archeology and forensic science departments broke through the concrete basement floor in the three-storey townhouse at 4842 Rupert Lane and began removing the underlying soil in an effort to find the woman's remains, according to Vancouver Sun. "The whole basement floor was excavated. Every inch of it was dug up and examined from wall to wall," Vancouver police Const. Jana McGuinness said on Tuesday and an extensive seven-day excavation of the basement of an east Vancouver townhouse has failed to find the remains of Catherine Mary Brown, who disappeared in 1977. Her son, Robert Sturcz, 37, had told police that when he was a child he had watched his father Aladar Sturcz, a Hungarian immigrant, bury his mother there after strangling her. He said he helped mix the concrete that was placed over a hole made in the basement floor where she was buried. But as of Monday, investigators had failed to find any trace of the woman. As reported in the news.
@t simon fraser university, hungarian immigrant