The Quinte West Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has called off their search for 70-year-old Marjorie Lucas after finding a woman’s body matching her description on the shores of Lake Ontario in the Grafton area.
Lucas of Quinte West went missing on Saturday, March 25th, along with her Springer Spaniel dog. She was last seen driving a 2010 brown Chevrolet Malibu with Ontario licence plate MARJ68.
On Tuesday, March 28th, Lucas’s empty car was located in the parking lot of a business on Harbour Street in Brighton.
On Sunday, April 2nd, police located Lucas’s dog deceased on a shoreline at Presqu’ile Provincial Park in Brighton.
On Thursday, April 6th, the Northumberland detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a deceased person washed up on the shores of Lake Ontario in the Grafton area.
Officers located a deceased female matching the description of Lucas.
On Saturday, April 8th, a post mortem examination was conducted at the Office of the Chief Coroner and Forensic Pathology Service and confirmed the identity of the deceased woman as Marjorie Lucas.
Police say foul play is not suspected.
