This was happening down the road from CMP headquarters so I ran over with the camera and shot this. pretty exciting! hold on to your hats!
Video of the search for missing Curriers continues and CMP was there!
This is an article from Burlington free press about this happenings: ESSEX — Police plan to return Friday morning to an Upper Main Street site in Essex to continue a search for missing couple William and Lorraine Currier after a daylong dig there Thursday concluded at dusk.
The search ended at about 7:30 p.m. with no word on what, if anything, was found. Police also wouldn’t comment on why they went to the site or what they hoped to find, other than to acknowledge their presence and their daylong efforts were related to the Currier disappearance, almost a year after they vanished.
The new effort began Thursday morning along Vermont 15 to find any trace of William and Lorraine Currier, who went missing last June.
“It’s a search related to the Currier case. It’s based on an investigative lead,” Detective Lt. George Murtie of the Essex police said.
About 20 law-enforcement personnel from Essex police and the Vermont State Police were present, as a mechanized dig with a backhoe gave way to a hand search and work with a smaller excavator.
The digging with the backhoe halted every few minutes so that state police cadaver dogs could sniff the pile of removed soil and smell inside the hole that was being dug.
Shortly after 11:30 a.m. digging stopped, and a half-dozen police personnel donned white hazmat-style protective gear. Authorities brought out sifters for use in the operations. By 1:40 p.m., there were 10 people in white suits working at the site.
At about 1:30 p.m., Ormond Bushey & Sons Inc. brought in a small Bobcat excavator. Later, the company brought in a large sifter about the size of the rear portion of a dump truck. The device, resembling a large Dumpster, rumbled as it sorted through the earth that the heavy equipment deposited into it.
Two state police cadaver dogs worked with their handlers, Detective Sgt. Matt Denis and state trooper James Wright, and had been on the scene throughout the day. At 1:45 p.m., Wright’s dog went into the hole.
The search started at about 9 a.m., Murtie said.
For part of the day, police positioned trucks so that onlookers could not view much of what was happening.
