Boulder investigators are on the third day of a search of an Arkansas landfill looking for evidence related to the grisly February murder of Ashley Mead, who is .
Police spokeswoman Shannon Cordingly confirmed Thursday that investigators are in Morrilton, Ark. — about 50 miles northwest of Little Rock — but she would not reveal any details about what they’re looking for or what brought them there.
Boulder police have said in the past that they’re still looking for human remains, possibly in a purple suitcase discarded somewhere between Louisiana and Oklahoma. The 25-year-old’s following her disappearance in February, but police haven’t been able to locate the rest of her remains.
, Mead’s ex-boyfriend and the father of her child, has been charged with first-degree murder, tampering with a deceased human body, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse. He has been held without bond in the Boulder County Jail since his arrest and is awaiting a preliminary hearing on July 11 and 12.
Mead was last seen Feb. 12 and was reported missing Feb. 14 along with her 1-year-old daughter, Winter Daisy Mead. Densmore and Mead recently had moved to Boulder from Louisiana, and they shared custody of the baby but were no longer dating.
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