jgrant posted on June 09, 2011 10:13
PM Environmental, Inc (PME) is currently assisting Livingston County Sheriff Cold-Case Team using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) in the hopes of locating Okemos teacher Paige Renkoski, who has been missing since 1990.
PME and the Cold Case Team used GPR to search potential burial sites for her remains. Bones were found in a pond area off Nicholson Road south of Grand River Avenue in Handy Township - but cold-case team member Mike Frayer said the bones most likely belonged to animals.
"It's not unusual to find stuff like this in an area like this, but I'd rather bag it and tag it and make sure," he said.
Cold-case team member William Lenaghan said a dive team will search the small pond, which has receded from levels indicated on a 1989 map and is snuggled into a small wooded area near the railroad tracks.
Searches at the turnaround at Lake Chemung off I-96 in Genoa Township, commonly known as the Hole in the Wall, and at the area off I-96 near the Fowlerville exit where Renkoski's car was found also yielded no signs of Renkoski, who has been missing and presumed dead since May 24, 1990.
The investigators, however, are not giving up. "Things are coming in we've never heard before," Frayer said. "I won't say we're frozen; we're warming up."
Due to the media attention the case has received, 11 new tips have come in to the team this past week.
Police and PME also plan to use the GPR to search more than 100 acres in Cohoctah Township, which Frayer said were identified in a "very detailed map" that was left anonymously on a Michigan State Police sergeant's desk in 1999.
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