Members of a team that looks for missing people say they found a hit for the smell of human remains in Etobicoke during a search for Nicole Morin, who went missing in 1985 when she was just 8 years old.
Around 11 a.m. on July 30, 1985, Morin left her apartment on the top floor of 627 The West Mall in Etobicoke to meet her friend at the swimming pool in her building. She was never seen again.
Brett Robinson with Please Bring Me Home tells CityNews 680 they spent several hours Thursday morning in an Etobicoke park with two cadaver dogs and their handlers, covering about 40 to 45 per cent of it.
One dog did pick up a smell of human remains which was then verified by the second dog. “So we marked the spot and continued to search, didn’t have any other hits for the rest of the day. And we intend on going back in a couple of weeks, both to reverify that spot but also to hopefully search the rest of the area,” explained Robinson.
He said the spot was in a place you wouldn’t normally be walking through. “There was a lot of foliage, no trails immediately there so, the undergrowth was pretty dense. I don’t think there would have been a lot of people walking through that specific area.”
The information, Robinson said, has been sent to Toronto Police. “We’ll see if they pursue it or not.”
The group has not released which particular park they were searching in to ensure nearby residents didn’t crowd the area.
Toronto police have been renewing efforts to close her case as part of the new missing persons unit.
As part of digitizing the files and bringing Morin’s case up to “2022 standards,” Acting Det. Sgt. Stephen Smith said they recently found many tips pointing to one location north of Toronto but could not find any new evidence.
Smith tells CityNews they currently have a full-time investigator focused on the Morin cold case and several other investigators assisting the case.
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