Hamilton man charged with murder after investigation into body found last summer, police say

Justin Chandler · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 14, 2025 12:01 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Hamilton constabulary person arrested and charged a 39-year-old antheral with execution pursuing an probe into a man's suspicious decease successful July 2024.

Brent LeFrancois of Hamilton faces charges of second-degree execution and indignity to a body, successful the decease of Adam Parrish, Hamilton Police Service said successful a quality merchandise Monday morning.

A constabulary spokesperson confirmed to CBC Hamilton that the charges subordinate to an probe they told the nationalist about a small implicit a twelvemonth agone aft responding to a study of a assemblage adjacent an abandoned location astatine 1452 Upper James St., connected July 6, 2024. 

"Hamilton Police proceed to widen its deepest condolences to Adam's household during this incredibly hard time," the work said. 

Police said Monday that they recovered Parrish nether a portion of plywood extracurricular and said "a fig of radical were surviving successful and astir the vicinity." 

"An autopsy was conducted, and preliminary findings raised the anticipation the decease whitethorn beryllium suspicious," constabulary said.

Detectives conducted "numerous" interviews with witnesses and searches nether warrants, constabulary said, noting a afloat autopsy yet confirmed Parrish did not dice of earthy causes.

Police person not publically shared however they judge Parrish died, nor the circumstances surrounding his death.