OPP confirm identities of man, woman found dead in rural home
Brian Williams, Local Journalism Initiative
The OPP confirmed the identities of a man and woman whose bodies were found last week in a rural home in Elgin County
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The OPP confirmed the identities of two people whose bodies were found last week in a rural home in Elgin County but didn't shed any light on how investigators believe the man and woman who had been dating died.

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The OPP confirmed the identities of two people whose bodies were found last week in a rural home in Elgin County but didn’t shed any light on how investigators believe the man and woman who had been dating died.

Tanya Wiebe, 38, of Malahide Township and Kyle Savage, 34, of Central Elgin were the two deceased people found in a home on Roberts Line in Central Elgin at about 8 a.m. on Jan. 31, Elgin OPP said in a release.

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The investigation into their deaths is ongoing, the OPP said, and is being assisted by the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario and the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service.

“Further updates will be provided as they become available,” Const. Brett Phair, a spokesperson for Elgin OPP, said in an e-mail to The London Free Press.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Elgin OPP at 1-888-310-1122.

Property records show the home at 46835 Roberts Line was bought by Savage in 2011. The home is near Sparta, a community about a 40-minute drive south of London.

CTV London reported Feb. 1 the deaths were a murder-suicide, citing multiple unnamed sources.

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Wiebe’s funeral was held Monday at the Bradley Street Church of God in Aylmer.

On Saturday evening, people gathered outside the Kebbel Funeral Home in Aylmer, where Wiebe’s visitation was held, to pay their respects to the 38-year-old who had a son named Chase from a previous relationship.

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“Tanya had this smile that could light up every room that she walked in to, she would never judge anyone and would give you her shirt off of her back if you needed it. She loved her son so much and supported him in everything he wanted to do,” said Trista Curtis, who grew up with Wiebe in Aylmer and has a son who played hockey with Wiebe’s son.

Videos posted to Facebook show Talbot Street lined with hundreds of people who turned up to show their support for Wiebe and her family.

People wearing hockey jerseys and holding hockey sticks tapped the sticks on the ground in unison, in a tribute to the hockey mom.

“At Tanya’s tribute, it was amazing to see the support from our community and Chase’s past hockey teams,” Curtis said.

A visitation for Savage, who worked for Ferguson Family Beans, will be held Wednesday morning at Williams Funeral Home in St. Thomas followed by a private family service, his obituary said.

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