Gruesome indeed. Wondering why if a suspect was identified and some remains were found initially in 2004, there wasn't an arrest and charges back then?

God question Imorge.
I am wondering the same thing?

How perfectly awful. It should'nt happen to a kid. May his soul rest in peace.
metalman.

"A suspect has been identified and investigators are confident the suspect poses no threat to others"

is waht it says above. There is nothing in there to indicate the ID of the suspect happened in 2004 rather than now.

This would only make partial sense if the suspect were a minor. And why were there two searches when in 2004 "most of the remains were recovered"? Did the RCMP not feel confident in 2004 that they got enough evidence? Unless...there has been a second suspect identified?
I assume there was a funeral for Adam. Then approximately five years later, the RCMP go out searching for more remains? Hmmm.

It sounds more like they just recently obtained an inculpatory statement from the suspect, which included a location to look for the missing remains.

Such statements are often obtained from people who are either at the end of their life (from sickness or otherwise) or trying to close it and start a new one.

Especially sad for this kid is that he was so missed by his family, it took 4 years to report him missing.

My condolences to the kid, it's the family that should have gone missing.

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"I assume there was a funeral for Adam."

REALLY ???!!!

That's the first conclusion you reached after reading this story ??

You really think a family that takes 4 years to report him missing, and then reports it in a jurisdiction 700 miles away, actually held a funeral for the kid after the cops dug up his remains ????

More likely....they scattered like cockroaches when the cops came knocking.

My mistake Reasonableman, I was confused about the dates and messed up the chronology. Somewhere in this bizarre story time line I would HOPE Adam's soul was put to rest. This is the second disturbing case of a child's disappearance we've heard about in recent weeks. The other case of course is Tori Stafford in Woodstock Ontario whose disappearance was reported but an Amber Alert was not issued because it wasn't considered serious enough. There are currently online petitions to amend Amber Alert - one in Ontario and in the UK. In Adam's case, Amber Alert hadn't quite been implemented in B.C. but you'd have to report a child missing and meet the criteria before issuing an alert. How many kids have to go missing and murdered before proper mechanisms are put in place to protect and save their lives?

I think everybody knows now that am Amber Alert should have been issued in the case of Victoria Stafford, that's why they are delving into the issue of "Where did this go wrong ?"

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"How do the RCMP know that the person responsible is not a threat to anyone else?"

Likely serving time in jail on other charges, or in a hospital bed, or both.

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The rest of the questions are answered by the fact that the investigation is not yet complete. Many cases are lost by rushing them to court to get charges formalized.

This is likely a case that fills several file boxes full of documents.
Once charges are laid, full disclosure of everything in the investigation (everything in the file boxes) must be made available to defence counsel immediately.

You are well advised to ensure you have all your ducks in a row before swearing the information before the courts, lest a clever defence lawyer find all your mistakes.

Several senior investigators are likely putting together this case, and they will likely have it reviewed by an equally or more knowledgeable third party before making the trip to the Crown Counsel's office, at which time the Crown Counsel will also review it and send it back for more work if it is lacking anything.

Once the process is formalized by the swearing of information and the approval of charges, we will find out more.

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Note:

If the suspect is serving time in jail on other charges, they may have "waived in" this case in order to plead guilty and get it cleared, in which case there won't be a trial.

They would likely get concurrent time, which means they will serve the same sentence they are already serving, but the new case will be added on to the list of convictions that they are serving time for.