Currier searches
Bill and Lorraine Currier were last seen leaving work at about 5 p.m. June 8. Police have said they suspect the Essex couple were at their home at 8 Colbert St. early that evening. At about 10 a.m. the next day, Bill Currier’s sister reported the couple missing. By 10 p.m. that day, Essex police obtained a search warrant for the home and asked the Vermont State Police to check a camp in Norton that the family shared. The Curriers’ car was found June 10 near a Dumpster at an apartment complex at 241 Pearl St. in Essex, about three-quarters of a mile from their home.
Here are searches police have undertaken:
• June 10: A police canine searches the area where the car was discovered.
• June 13: Police conduct searches at Gauthier Park, from Pearl Street west to Susie Wilson Road and the wooded area west of Lowe’s on Susie Wilson Road. New England Canine assisted.
• June 20: Police search the dead end section of Susie Wilson Road by foot.
• June 24: Police search 68 acres on Pearl Street heading east; 199 Old Colchester Road; northern end of the Champlain Valley Fairgrounds; Parizo Drive; South Street; Cascade Street; Lamore Road; the pull-off area of exit 11 on the Circumferential Highway; River Road near Mazza’s; Indian Brook Reservoir; Vermont 15 at the Browns River; Vermont 128 at the Browns River; the Essex side of North Williston Road; Williston Overlook; River Cove Road; Mill Pond Road in Colchester and Colchester Pond parking lot; and the water treatment area behind St. Michael’s College.
• June 28: Cadaver dog searches near an undisclosed South Burlington residence near Burlington International Airport.
• July 14: Three cadaver dogs search Susie Wilson Road, Gauthier Drive and Pearl Street Park.
• Aug. 4: The Vermont State Police lead a search that covers Old Stage, Lost Nation, Colonel Page, Indian Brook and McGee roads.
• Mid-September: Verizon phone carrier provides more information in response to earlier subpoenas, and investigators determine a cellphone tower in Fort Ethan Allen was used to relay a call from Burlington to William Currier’s cellphone at 7:26 a.m. June 9 that went to voicemail. The cellphone is dead and has not been recovered, but the FBI determines the general area for the next search.
• Oct. 13: Cadaver dog searches the north end of Kenyon Road in Richmond.
• Oct. 25: 34 police and rescue personnel — the largest search party in the case — comb woods, fields and along the Winooski River. Some areas are repeats, and police said they could return to some locations.
