Halifax police say human remains found in November are those of Catie Miller, a 29-year-old woman who vanished four months earlier.
Three people have been charged in her death.
Twenty-nine-year-old Jason James Johnson and 33-year-old Kelly Amanda MacDonald of Lawrencetown are charged with first-degree murder and indecently interfering with a dead human body.
Thirty-year-old George Edward Hubley of Sheet Harbour Passage faces charges of accessory to murder after the fact and indecently interfering with a dead human body.
Police are not releasing the location where Miller's remains were found, citing the ongoing court proceedings.
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