Body parts found with bomb matched to torso of teen

Police expect to be poring over a home east of Toronto for the next several weeks after revealing on Friday that body parts found in the residence belonged to an 18-year-old woman whose torso was found in Lake Ontario in the fall.

Durham regional police are treating the case of Rori Hache as a homicide, but have not yet laid murder charges in her death. Adam Jeffrey Strong, 45, of Oshawa, Ont., has been charged in the case with indecent interference to a body and is in custody, police said.

Const. George Tudos said Hache, who was from Oshawa, disappeared in August and her family filed a missing persons report.

A fisherman found a torso in Lake Ontario on Sept. 11, Tudos said, and DNA test results in November matched it to the missing teen. An autopsy on the torso did not determine a cause of death, Tudos said, but there were “obvious signs of trauma.”

Tudos said police were called to an Oshawa basement apartment on Dec. 29 after someone at the home found “something suspicious.” Officers found a woman’s remains and an autopsy matched them to the torso of Hache found months earlier.

In the basement, police also came across a homemade explosive device, Tudos said. Officers called in the bomb squad, which detonated the device last week.

Tudos wouldn’t discuss what body parts police found in the home. Police have not said whether there is any relationship between Hache and Strong.