Police have ended their exhaustive search of a landfill for missing Michigan woman Ashley Elkins, who they believe was murdered, and her family is demanding that her ex-boyfriend now be charged with her murder.
Elkins, 30, vanished on January 2 without a trace until police located her car five days later. Elkins car was found a few miles from the home of her ex-boyfriend, Deandre Booker.
Booker, 32, of Roseville, Michigan, was charged with lying to investigators on Jan. 8, WDIV-4 reported. Police had been searching Pine Tree landfill, which accepts trash from across southeastern Michigan. The search effort had been focused on a 6.5-acre area with volunteers from 14 different police agencies sifting through two inches of trash at at time, making repeated passes over the area.
Despite those efforts, Elkins body was not found.
"To hear that they've concluded the search without success is very disappointing for the family. They were looking for closure," Elkins' Uncle Maurice Morton told WXYZ-7.
"Now we're calling on the prosecutor's office to get the murder charges levied against DeAndre Booker. It's our understanding that there is still plenty of evidence in the case, so we're looking forward to those charges coming hopefully soon. Hopefully, this week," Morton told the station.
Roseville Police Chief Mitch Berlin previously told WXYZ-7 that police were awaiting DNA analysis on some items associated with the investigation.
"This violent act was premeditated. We will seek to enhance the charges once we get there, to exactly that, premeditated," Berlin previously told WXYZ-7.
Elkins' car was found a few miles from Booker's residence on Jan. 7 missing its license plate.
