A Mississauga woman missing for a week was found dead in her own driveway Monday morning, March 20, Peel Regional Police have confirmed.

Homicide Bureau detectives are now officially investigating, and police are continuing to deem her death “suspicious.”

The body of Cheryl Mcvarish, 43, was spotted by a man walking his dog just after 9 a.m., partially obscured by a large tree and a red car parked in the First Street driveway. She had been reported missing by her boyfriend last week, last seen around 11:30 a.m. on Monday, March 13 after leaving her house to go to the store. The driveway belongs to a corner house which fronts onto Westmount Avenue, where Mcvarish lived in the area of Lakeshore Road East and Cawthra Road.

Her daughter confirmed earlier she had been found dead on Facebook, where she had been making heartfelt pleas for help in finding her.

Samantha Mcvarish was headed to Mississauga from her Orillia home Monday to meet with Peel police and talk about her mother’s troublesome disappearance.

She had a bad feeling about the unusual and sudden way her mother had just vanished and was worried about her.

Mcvarish, 43, was last seen in the area of Lakeshore Road East and Cawthra Road at 11:30 a.m. Monday, March 13. She hadn’t answered her cellphone or Facebook posts, did not drive, and no one, including her daughter, had heard from her since.

“It's been seven days since we have seen or heard from her and something is seriously wrong as this is very out of character for her,” her daughter wrote on Facebook in one of several heartfelt appeals for help.

Mcvarish’s family and friends had been frantically spreading the word of her disappearance, hoping someone would report seeing her, or she would contact loved ones.

“Every second, minute, hour, day that goes by and we don't hear from you a little more of my heart breaks,” Samantha Mcvarish wrote on Facebook as she asked for friends and others to share the ‘missing person’ poster of her mother as much as possible.