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Months after his wife drowned in front of his eyes, Ryan Ramgahan was still posting uncaptioned photos of some of their fondest memories on Facebook.

Ramgahan and his wife, Cat Yen, were on a small inflatable boat with their dogs off the coast of Taiwan in Yilan when they ran into a storm that was so powerful the boat capsized. Although a man on a nearby boat was able to rescue Ramgahan, a Canadian who moved to Taipei 10 years ago to teach English, he would never see his wife or his dog, Spongy, again.

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When Ramgahan’s best friend, Tom Bartnik, noticed the pattern in his social media activity, he questioned him.

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“I’m trying really hard to be positive,” Ramgahan told Bartnik. “I’m not in a hurry to go and be with Cat in heaven any time soon.”

On Wednesday, New Taipei City police found Ramgahan’s torso on a river embankment, then minutes later located his severed head, one arm and one leg in three plastic bags nearby. His other two limbs were missing Thursday night, Taiwan foreign affairs police Sub-Lt. Huang Yu-tzu told the National Post in a phone call, but police have located another leg since then.