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KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A man whose dead body was partly eaten by a bear on a remote road near Kamloops, B.C., was a convicted murderer who had been reported missing last week.

The B.C. Coroner’s Service and the RCMP say 53-year-old Rory Nelson Wagner had been living in Kamloops before he vanished.

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The National Parole Board has confirmed Wagner pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 1994.He and two others were charged with killing a Langley, B.C., man in 1993 who they believed had sexually assaulted their family member.

The parole documents show the murder victim was charged with the sexual assault, but was found not guilty shortly before he was killed.

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Authorities say they don’t believe Wagner’s death in his car was a result of suicide. The bear dragged his body out of the vehicle, ate part of it and buried the rest.

He had been reported missing May 23, 2012.

Hunters came across the remains earlier this week after finding an abandoned Volkswagen Jetta on a logging road earlier this week.