Police continue to comb field for missing woman's body

CBC News

Posted: Nov 24, 2012 9:11 AM ET

Last Updated: Nov 24, 2012 9:10 AM ET

Police and forensic experts spent a second day combing a field near Winona, Ont., on Friday searching for the remains of a Stoney Creek woman.

"They were out searching the field yesterday, but as far as I know they haven't found any remains," said Staff Sgt. Jack Langhorn.

Shirley Treadwell, a 62-year-old who had a mental disability, is believed to have died sometime in 2009. Police were alerted to Treadwell's death in July 2012.

Her niece and caregiver, Melinda Evans, was charged with commiting an indignity to a human body and fraud in September of this year. Evans allegedly disposed of her aunt's body and collected disability cheques, but police have yet to find Treadwell's remains.

An area of about 37 acres is now being searched, from Barton Street to Highway 8 and Glover Road to Jones Road.

Staff Sgt. Paul Evans said Thursday, "we're using a number of techniques because of this field and the terrain. We're moving fairly well through the field, but it is a lot of open field."

Hamilton police also called in University of Toronto forensic expert Dr. Tracy Rogers, director of forensic anthropology, and 14 of her students to help with the search. Rogers told CBC Hamilton that her expertise is in locating and identifying human remains and burial sites, looking for things that police might otherwise miss.

Evans wouldn't say what prompted police to search the fields.

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