Saskatoon police say the remains uncovered in a search of the city’s landfill are Mackenzie Lee Trottier’s.
“On July 30, 2024, members of a search team at the landfill made a partial recovery of human remains; following this finding, the search team continued their efforts where, on August 1, 2024, a full recovery of human remains was made,” a statement from the Saskatoon police on Tuesday said.
Police started the landfill search on May 1.
Trottier, who was 22 when she went missing, was last seen in December 2020. She told her family she was going to get a lift with a ride-booking service when she left her family’s home. She was in good spirits, said her father in a previous interview with APTN News.
According to the police statement, the cause of her death hasn’t been determined. The suspect, according to police, “died in an unrelated incident.”
“Evidence recovered from electronic devices belonging to the suspect supported the search of the landfill. During the police investigation, video surveillance had been released of a man believed to have information regarding Mackenzie’s disappearance. This man is not the deceased suspect and is not believed to be involved in Mackenzie’s death.”
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Investigators, working with landfill engineers, used global positioning system data on garbage trucks to narrow the search to the specific area about 930 cubic metres in size and one metre deep the police said.
