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By SARAH A.
ZIMMERMAN
A BODY found in the Ni-
comekl River in Surrey
fast month has been iden-
tified as that of a former
Terrace businessman and
police are looking for
clues about his murder.
Mark Stuart Twyford,

56, who once co-owned .

Close-Up. magazine and
the now-defunct Terrace
Review newspaper was
discovered Feb. 15 by a
mountain biker.

Police were not able to
identify the body until
March 8 and only then by
using dental records and a
missing person's report
filed from Langley, where
Twyford lived.

Twyford was reported
missing by his family Feb,
9 after they hadn't heard
from him for an extended

period of time, police said,

Surrey police said his
body was wrapped in a
material of some sort so it
would not be easily seen,

“It appears he was dead
before he went in the
tiver,” says Surrey RCMP
Cnst. Tim Shields.

He said pathology re-
ports indicate Twyford’s
body may have been in the
tiver for anywhere from a
week to a number of
months. Police have not
released the cause of
death but did say it
showed signs of trauma.

“An autopsy was per-
formed and it is 100 per
cent confirmed as a homi-
cide,” Cnst. Shields said.

“There have been a few
leads that we've received
and we're following up on
those leads but we're still
asking for help from the
public,” Shields said.

He was unable to say if
investigators are talking to
people from Terrace but he
said if anyone has infor-
mation, police want to
hear from them.

_ Twyford Jived alone .in.,

in a small Sapartniént ‘on

the second floor of a’ com-."'

mercial building in Lan-
gley.

Shields said police
searched the man’s apart-
ment but he would not di-
vulge what, if anything,
was found.

“We are looking into
any and all possibilities in
the case, we’re keeping an
open mind and we're not
ruling anything out,”
Shields said.

Twyford and his then-
wife, Marj, opened Totem
Press with Nelson and Pat

Mark Twyford

Commerce in 1989 for
their work as publishers of
the newspaper and of

Close Up television guide.

oe Ce . eal

Mark Twyford was also
the president of the Ter-
race Rotary Club in 1987-
88.

The Twyfords started
the Terrace Review in
1985 to fill a gap caused
when the Terrace Herald
ceased publication, The
Terrace Review clased
down in 1992. Twyford left
Terrace for the lower
mainland in the mid-1990s.

Anyone with informa-
tion about Twyford’s death
or his activities in recent
months is asked to contact
Cpl. Al Ross at the Surrey
RCMP detachment at
(604) 533-7622.

If you wish to remain
anonymous call Cri-

in Surrey

mestoppers at 1-800-222-
TIPS.

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IT COULD BE a while yet before the province re-
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