Ontario Town in Mourning After Body Found

'No Foul Play Suspected'

The Ontario Provisional Police, which has jurisdiction over the area where the body was found, is now heading the investigation.

Brandon Crisp ran away Oct. 13 after his parents took away the gaming system they feared he was addicted to.

(Courtesy of the Barrie Police Service/ AP Photo )

Provincial police Sgt. Pierre Chamberland told ABCNews.com today that dental records would be used to help identify the body during the autopsy, but that residents had no reason to fear for their safety.

"We don't have any suspicion of foul play," Chamberland said.

Crisp left home on Oct. 13 after his parents took away his beloved Xbox, and aside from two sightings by area residents that day, police had no leads on his whereabouts.

He apparently took off on a well-traveled trail on his bike, which was found later that day by a passerby. The bike wasn't turned over to police for several days until the person realized who belonged to.

The body was found several kilometers away from where the bike was found, "in a rural area that was both field and a wooded area," Goodbrand said.

Before the body's discovery, Microsoft Canada had chipped in $25,000 Canadian toward a reward for help finding Crisp. The Microsoft donation matched the $25,000 Canadian raised by local organizations. The reward totaled $41,776 in U.S. dollars.

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Goodbrand said that since his disappearance Crisp had become somewhat of an unofficial poster child for missing children in Canada. People flooded police and a Facebook site dedicated to the search with comments and well-wishes.

"He's touched everybody across this country right now," Goodbrand said.

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Legg said Crisp was a quiet teen, but a good student who was well-liked and enjoyed the school's computer and technology courses.

He had once been a competitive hockey player who enjoyed video games with his friends, his father told ABCNews.com Tuesday, and his disappearance on Canada's Thanksgiving holiday left the family sick with worry.

When the family signed up about a year ago for a subscription to Xbox Live, which allows players to interact with gamers all over the world, Crisps' hobby turned into an obsession that ultimately led to his fleeing his Barrie home after his father took away the system for good, his father said.

"We'd be asleep and he'd be up at 2 or 3 in the morning, playing this thing," Steve Crisp said before yesterday's discovery, adding that they also had a hard time getting him to leave the game to eat dinner with the family.

On Friday, Oct. 10, the Crisps decided to take away his Xbox temporarily after learning the boy, whose grades were slipping, had skipped school the day before. Steve Crisp said they had taken similar action about 20 times before. But when he saw that his son had found the system and resumed playing it while his father was out fishing that weekend, he said he decided to take it away permanently.

"He was very angry," Steve Crisp said. When the father and son sat down to talk about Brandon's obsession with the system, the game "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" in particular, Brandon's response was "OK, I'm going to leave home then."

Calling his bluff, Steve Crisp said he advised him to take warm clothes when he saw his son loading things into a backpack. He then watched as his only son rode away on his bicycle. The family, which includes Brandon's twin sister and older sister, figured he'd blow off some steam with friends and be back that evening.

"I didn't think anyone would run off for a game," his father said.