The RCMP believe they have located the remains of a Cape Breton woman whose son admitting to killing her.

Earlier this week, investigators identified a burial site in North Framboise, N.S. The remains were found in the woods off North Framboise Road.

RCMP officers, a forensics team and the medical examiner’s office attended the scene on Wednesday morning.

“At this time, our next step is to confirm the identity of the remains,” said RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Alain LeBlanc.

If confirmed, the discovery would end the more than two-year search for the body of Michelle Demers-Kennedy.

Demers-Kennedy, 58, was reported missing on May 12, 2013 by one of her five children when he couldn’t reach her on Mother’s Day.

RCMP and search crews conducted extensive searches near Michelle’s Three Rivers Road home in Framboise, N.S. but they failed to locate her body.

Michelle’s son, Merlin Demers-Kennedy, was charged with second-degree murder in January 2014, following a seven-month investigation.

He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter in a Port Hawkesbury courtroom on May 20.

The court heard that Demers-Kennedy has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

According to an agreed statement of facts, Demers-Kennedy told investigators that his mother was frequently trying to have sex with him and he wanted to take her to the police so he “could stop her from raping” him.

"Mr. Demers-Kennedy believed he was being assaulted by his mother and ultimately on this day he confronted her with the intention of taking her to the police," said Crown attorney Shane Russell.

"A dispute occurred at that point, a confrontation between him and his mother. Ultimately, Mr. Demers-Kenney struck his mother and used a rope to asphyxiate her."

The court heard that Demers-Kennedy then covered his mother's body in Pine-Sol, placed it into the trunk of his car and buried it in the woods, although investigators failed to locate her body at the time.

The information from the statement of facts surprised neighbours.

“I knew him in his younger days. It's after he returned from being out west that he was unusual, different,” said neighbour John MacQueen.

Demers-Kennedy is due back in court for sentencing on June 19.

With files from CTV Atlantic’s Kyle Moore