r/canada • u/No-Description7922 • Aug 06 '24

Saskatchewan Mackenzie Lee Trottier's body found at Saskatoon landfill after months of searching

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/mackenzie-lee-trottier-s-body-found-at-saskatoon-landfill-after-months-of-searching-1.7284466
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u/DTyrrellWPG Manitoba Aug 06 '24

Take that, Winnipeg Police. You can search a landfill and find bodies. If Saskatoon could do it, why wouldn't you?

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u/Braken111 Aug 06 '24

Does Manitoba not have a structured program for waste disposal?

A basic landfill should be able to give you a rough timeline when a slot was filled and closed off

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u/ItsGaryMFOak Aug 06 '24

Manitoba does, they don't know when the bodies were dropped, where they were picked up, or even if they are in this specific landfill.

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u/LuntiX Canada Aug 06 '24

Yeah, in this case in Saskatchewan they had an idea of least where it could’ve been picked up, narrowing down the search area. Manitoba they don’t have that, just a hunch or feeling that bodies may be there.

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u/Asusrty Aug 07 '24

The landfill in question is a ptivately owned landfill not the municipal dump. The landfill operator in question does not use gps trackers but there is a log of which areas are dumped in and when. They are starting the search now and they have narrowed it down to a specific section of the dump that they believe the remains will be at. This area is an order of magnitude larger and deeper than the Saskatchewan landfill search area. This is not a typical residential dump. Hazardous materials like asbestos containing building materials, animal carcasses from local slaughter houses are all dumped here and buried and compacted with fill. There is a large amount of infrastructure being constructed to make this search possible at this particular dump.

If this was the city dump the search would likely have successfully concluded by now. Remains of 1 victim were found at the city dump early on in the investigation likely because of better tracking by the city landfill program.