Murder police searching for missing man find someone else's body
Officers visited a home in Sticker, a village near St Austell, as part of a missing person investigation.
They arrested a 39-year-old man from Sticker on suspicion of fraud and of murder, as well as a woman in her 30s on suspicion of murder.
While searching for the man on Tuesday, officers were called to woodland between Truro and Probus, roughly 10 miles away from Sticker.
The body of a man in his 40s had been discovered.
But after formal identification was carried out, the body was not that of the missing person, who still hasn't been found.
The force is treating the man's death as suspicious.
Detective Superintendent Jon Bancroft said the separate murder investigations are not linked.
He said: 'Detectives from the major crime investigation team will be considering all possible lines of inquiry and members of the public should be reassured every available resource is being utilised to do so.'
Detective Inspector Neil Blanchard added: 'We appreciate how the unique circumstances surrounding these investigations may be causing the public concern.
'The discovery of a body, the day after a male suspect was arrested, has proven to be unrelated to the initial missing person investigation.'
A woman in her 30s from Newquay was also arrested on suspicion of murder on Wednesday after the body was discovered.
The pair arrested earlier in the week remain in custody.
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