
Remains found identified as B.C. woman who went missing in 2017
SALMON ARM — Mounties in British Columbia’s Interior say human remains found last month have been confirmed as being a woman who went missing near Sicamous nearly eight years ago.
They say the remains were discovered on a rural property in Salmon Arm on May 5, and the BC Coroners Service has since linked them to Nicole Bell.
She was 31 when she disappeared in September of 2017, and major crime investigators who took conduct of the case quickly confirmed the woman’s disappearance “was the result of foul play.”
She was one of five women who went missing in the North Okanagan over a 20-month period in 2016 and 2017, but police say it has been established that the disappeareances were not all associated to the same person.