At the Leaside house where investigators found skeletal remains buried inside planters, the owners were briefly allowed back inside Thursday to collect some items and empty their fridges of spoiled food.It’s been two weeks since police arrived at the Mallory Cres. home with a search warrant, forcing Ron Smith and his partner, Karen Fraser, to leave with little more than clothes and toiletries.“We’d like to return back to our normal lives but at the end of the day, it can’t interfere with the investigation. We get that. As tough as it is, we get that,” Smith said.Read more:Waterloo police probe possible links between disappearance of Kitchener man and alleged serial killer Bruce McArthurAs the murder investigation expands, one man says Bruce McArthur sold him planters. ‘God knows what’s inside’Edward H. Royle firm to represent accused serial killer Bruce McArthurHe saw investigators unloading what looked like a radar device used to detect objects underground, and he expects police will soon start excavating the hard clay soil to see if anything is buried on the property.The discovery of skeletal remains in planters at their home has been the couple’s worst fear since police announced their gruesome find Monday. “We just hope the remains are just in the planters so they go away and (are) not in the ground,” Fraser previously told the Star. “If they find something buried in the backyard, that’s a different feeling.”Bruce McArthur performed landscaping work at their home for years after being recommended to Smith and Fraser by McArthur’s sister. They had an arrangement whereby the landscaper could use the couple’s garage to store equipment in exchange for gardening work. Since police executed a search warrant on the home, they have found the remains of three people buried in large backyard planters that were tended to by McArthur. Smith said he and Fraser are still in the ...
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