McCann family calls off search for missing couple
Cold weather and snow make it too difficult
EDMONTON — The family of Lyle and Marie McCann have called off their ground search for the bodies of the missing St. Albert couple.
Bret McCann said the cold weather and snow have made search efforts too difficult, and that the family will be relying on the RCMP’s efforts for the near future.
“It’s always been a very daunting thing to do this search,” he said. “I think that we’re just being realistic about it, it’s just not possible to do any kind of search on our own right now.”
Family members have spent the last seven weekends combing the wilderness east of Edson, looking for signs of the couple who disappeared in early June while driving to British Columbia. McCann said the final family-run search was last weekend, when a small group took a cadaver dog to the area around Minnow Lake and the Nojack campground.
A reward of $60,000 is being offered by the McCann family, in conjunction with Crime Stoppers, for information leading to the couple’s whereabouts.
