Police have wrapped up a two-day search of a wooded area north of Barrie, Ont., saying they have found nothing “conclusive” in the latest hunt for a girl who disappeared 29 years ago.
Police were acting on a tip received after releasing a video re-enactment in July of Nicole Morin's disappearance.
Approximately 50 officers searched ditches along the north side of Horseshoe Valley Road in Springwater Township. They focused on the area between Gill Road and Old Second Road.
On Wednesday, police and cadaver dogs combed the ditches along Old Second Road, but didn't find anything. On Thursday, police were seen carrying shovels into the wooded area to search some mounds.
Police searched the same area when Morin disappeared, but were hoping that new technology may unearth more clues.
Morin was 8 when she disappeared from her west-end Toronto apartment building the morning of July 30, 1985. She left her penthouse apartment at 627 The West Mall in Etobicoke, and headed to the ground floor to meet a friend to go swimming.
Police are unsure whether she made it to the lobby. At the time, she was wearing a coral bathing suit, and was described as 4-foot-2 with brown hair and brown eyes. Her ears were pierced and she had a small birthmark on the upper right side of her forehead. She weighed approximately 60 pounds.
If Morin is still alive, she's now 37 years old.
Anyone with details is asked to call Toronto police at 416-808-2200, or contact Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).
