UPDATE: BODY LOCATED https://missingpeople.ca/mackenzie-lee-trottiers-body-found-at-saskatoon-landfill-after-months-of-searching/
Saskatoon city police said in a news release on Friday that officers will search a specific area of the City of Saskatoon landfill related to the disappearance of Mackenzie Lee Trottier.
Trottier, then 22, was last seen by family on Dec. 21, 2020 in the 300 block of Trent Crescent in Saskatoon’s College Park East neighbourhood. She was reported missing to police on Dec. 30 that year.
For more than three years, her father Paul has said he believes she is alive and was taken.
“We are here to continue our work looking for our daughter, because her story continues,” Paul said during a Friday news conference with police.
“I must stress that Mackenzie is still considered a missing person, and will be until we have direct information otherwise,” Deputy Chief Cam McBride told reporters.
Police said in the release that in late 2023 “a substantial amount of data was collected which identified a specific area” of the landfill may contain evidence in the investigation, adding that 33 days have been set aside for the search if needed.
“Over the course of the investigation, there were several devices that were seized and extraction of information from those devices has led us to the point where we are confident in the location that we’re searching, and confident enough that we can not leave this investigative lead undone,” McBride said.
The area is about 930 cubic metres in size and one metre deep, police said, and SPS will be assisted by dogs from RCMP E Division and Calgary Police Service. The teams will also be consulting with University of Saskatchewan forensic anthropologist Dr. Ernie Walker.
