After Leslie Trotter, 78, was reported missing from her Brisbane home by her family in late March and attempts to find her initially focused on nearby bushwalking trails where she enjoyed hiking, the search took another turn, however, when Queensland Homicide detectives revealed that they had evidence of her death and that her body may have been inside a box that had been emptied into a garbage truck.

 Edited by| Christian Megan

Australia  section -  CJ journalist

Queensland- April,29,2023

  Australian police are scouring a dump site in Queensland for the remains of 78-year-old Leslie Trotter, whose body is believed to have been inside a trash can that was emptied into a garbage truck during regular garbage collection.

The truck was one of 23 that took their waste collections to a transfer station, where it was compressed before being distributed to two landfill sites, Queensland Police said in a statement.

On April 18, officers partially cordoned off one of those sites and have been sifting through rubbish for Trotter’s body, or any clues to her whereabouts.

At the time, Detective Acting Superintendent Andrew Massingham described the search area as “quite enormous.” “There is some 3,000 tons of general waste that we need to sort through,” he said.

“The waste will be exhumed from the ground. It will then be tipped into lanes approximately 30 meters deep, at which time our police and Australian Defense Force personnel will sift through by hand and using rakes,” he said.

On Thursday, police said less than 13% of the search area had been covered, and the entire process could take several weeks. Though they said paperwork belonging to a nearby resident had been found, suggesting they were looking in the right place.

Police confirmed they were looking into a possible link between Trotter’s disappearance and her recycling habits – she was known to go through trash cans outside her home and neighboring properties for recycling waste that had been put in the wrong bins.

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