No leads and overwhelming heat forced a Northern Manitoban woman to call of search efforts for her missing daughter.
Amanda Bartlett went missing from Winnipeg in 1996. Bartlett was 17 years old when she disappeared.
This weekend Helen Bignell came to Winnipeg from The Pas to search for Bartlett. After receiving advice that she may be in the city’s northwest area, Bignell and her family began searching.
They combed through open fields, looking for clues. “It’s so hot – very hot. We have to walk around wetting our hair and clothes,” said Bignell.
Bignell and a team of friends and family members searched an area near King Edward Street and Jefferson Avenue on Saturday and Sunday.
Bartlett’s sister, Janet Lowther, said they wanted to take the search into their own hands after frustratingly little was coming from police.
Lowther said it took police over two years to take the missing person’s report. “We got sent around back and forth between officers. It was just like we were chasing our tails around in circles,” said Lowther.
Since then police said there haven’t been any leads in the case.
Bignell and her team’s two day search turned up nothing and soaring temperatures forced them to call it off Sunday afternoon. But Bignell said she will return later in the summer to pick up where she left off.
