Mackenzie Lee Trottier went missing just before Christmas.
Paul Trottier reflects on the search for his daughter Mackenzie, whose body was found in Saskatoon's landfill more than three years after she disappeared, and his hope to help other families of missing people.
"It matters for the sense we don't want this to happen again. What do we have to do to ensure that those things don't happen? Let's try and figure that out, rather than spinning in nastiness." "She had stayed at that residence quite often," and "one person always stood out to investigators as being involved in Mackenzie's disappearance," said Saskatoon Police Service major crimes unit Sgt. Corey Lenius.Calgary police may have more information in disappearance of Saskatoon woman
Paul Trottier says now that his daughter's remains have been found, he wants to help other families of missing people. "Officers basically climbing through piles of trash doesn't produce much, if anything, and it's extremely dangerous to the searchers." Workers sifted through a literal mountain of garbage at the Saskatoon landfill during a search that began on May 1, 2024. Mackenzie's remains were found on Aug. 1. Trucks dump the waste in a designated area. It's compacted and then, at a certain point, the waste is covered with a layer of dirt.
"You want to create what's called a monolayer — you take all the trash and disperse it, you lay it all out so it's not very thick," he said.All that said, the challenges were daunting.Heavy machines were continuously spreading the trash after it was dumped, so where the GPS indicated a load was deposited might not be where it ended up. The garbage slid down into unseen fissures and voids.
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