Police have suspended their search at an Ipswich dump for missing Toowong woman Lesley Trotter, whose body is believed to have been put in a wheelie bin outside her home last month.
By April 7, police believed Ms Trotter was dead and the investigation shifted from a missing person to a sudden death.
"After more than a month since commencing the search, police have been unable to locate Ms Trotter's body," Detective Superintendent Andrew Massingham said.Detective Superintendent Massingham, the Regional Crime Coordinator for the Brisbane region, said the decision to suspend the Swanbank landfill search was made after consultation with forensic experts and landfill engineers.
It was anticipated they would sift through 200 tonnes of rubbish a day, in what was described as a "hand-and-eye" search, covering an area described by Detective Superintendent Massingham at the time as "quite enormous".
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