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The Oakville Beaver, W e d n e sd a y N o v e m b e r 10, 2004 - A 3 Shoe led to discovery of body in the creek (Continued from page A1) six weeks prior, that searchers returned to the shoe and found Randy's initials in it. With that clue, the first concrete clue anyone had had in the two weeks of exten sive searching, the search again gathered steam, focussing on the muddy bank the shoe was found in. and the creek it led in to. The police had searched the area on several occasions, and had a boat equipped with an underwater camera in the creek over a week beforehand. It was only with the Peel Regional Police Services Underwater Search and Recovery Unit, comprised of several divers, that they found Randy Monday at 12:35 p.m., between 12 and 18 feet below the creek's surface. Late yesterday afternoon, Halton police released the results on Randy's autopsy. `T he coroner reports that there are no signs of traumatic injury to the body of Randy Mogridge," stated the release from the police. Foul play was ruled out. but the cause of death was not released by the coroner, who is still conducting an investigation. "No time lines have been provided with respect to releasing the cause of death as further extensive tests must be conduct ed. "The shoe would not have changed the fate of my brother." Dean said in a tele phone interview Tuesday morning. "I'm more concerned about the organization of the care." Randy had actually left the centre in the afternoon of Oct. 24, and was returned, according to Dean, before leav ing again in the evening. The last time he ran away was when his father died more than 20 years ago. his mother Gloria told The Beaver the Tuesday after his disappearance. It was the reason that Gloria made the difficult deci sion to send him to Oaklands, so hfc could be watched more closely. Since arriving, he didn't leave the grounds unsupervised, though he did freely walk from his house on-site to the main building. He also rode his bike around the property on occasion, and there was no reason to suspect he would leave. Oaklands, which had many staff mem bers searching for Randy, who they con sidered family, wasn't available for com ment, though it did release a statement expressing condolences. As well as the help from staff at Oaklands, the Mogridge family and the police were backed up by hundreds of vol unteers. Even when the family, last Monday, decided not to coordinate a vol unteer search, people showed up to help. "I definitely want to thank the volun teers, the police, and the media," Dean said, adding that the people who came out helped keep his hopes alive, and kept him inspired. "I'd really like to stress that out of this tragedy, there's still 70 people at Oaklands we'd like to help," Dean said. The family is setting up a memorial fund, with donations going to the Parents Association of Oaklands, a group that will use the money to help improve the quality of life at the centre. Donations can be made to the Randy Mogridge memorial Fund at any Royal Bank branch. Tributes and con dolences can be made at www.bringrandyhome.ca. Just as the volunteers kept hopes alive for the Mogridge family, the family was a great help for the police, Corey said, "The family was a source of inspira tion. They are amazing people.. .they were there before and after the searches, thank ing all the searchers." Their strength was commented on throughout their ordeal, but Dean insisted there was nothing extraordinary about it. "What else are you going to do? Every family has a crisis, you just pull together and you get through." Their tireless searching and their pleas for the community to help by checking their own property struck a chord with people, and the weekend after Randy's dis appearance, nearly a thousand people had signed up to help. Even on Saturday, the day Dean said would be the last for any large-scale search, about 400 people signed in at Oaklands to search for a man who was described by his mother as a person who always had a smile for others. A Funeral Mass will be held for Randy Mogridge at 10 a.m. Friday at the Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church, 1694 Upper James St.. Hamilton. Visitation is at Cresmount Funeral Home, 322 Fennell Ave.. E. on Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. and Thursday from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Peter C. McCusker · Oakville Beaver (Clockwise from above) Dean M ogridge addresses the media after his brother Kandy's body was located by two Peel Regional Police divers in Sixteen Mile Creek at 12:35 p.m. Monday, 500 m etres from O aklands Regional Centre. 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