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A notorious Winchester man has been charged with murder in connection with a cold case that has been linked by the Ontario Provincial Police to four other unsolved slayings in a rural county south of Ottawa.

James Henry “Jimmy” Wise, 75, will appear in a Cornwall courtroom Friday to face a single charge of first-degree murder in the death of Raymond Collison.

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“I didn’t think we’d ever get answers in Raymond’s murder,” said Collison’s sister, Daryl Kennedy, of Spencerville, after being informed of the arrest Thursday. “I’m really surprised.”

Collison, 59, was reported missing in September 2009, three weeks after he was last seen getting on his bicycle outside the McCloskey Hotel in Chesterville. His body wasn’t discovered until April 2014 when two people out for an evening walk came across a human skull in a drainage ditch.

DNA testing was required to identify the body.

OPP investigators have never revealed Collison’s cause of death, but their findings triggered a detailed re-examination of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry’s large archive of cold cases.