Investigators have launched a large-scale search of the Utah desert for the body of Susan Powell, nearly two years after the woman disappeared.
With the help of cadaver dogs, detectives are scouring around the town of Delta, 130 miles southwest of Powell’s home in West Valley City, Utah.
“We’re very hopeful that we’ll come up with something but we just don’t know whether we will or not,” West Valley City police told Fox 13 News.
Searchers on all-terrain vehicles are working a grid-pattern on the ground for signs of her body, with plans to add the assistance of a spotter plane.
The search is at sign that the investigation is at its most active stage since Susan Powell, a married mom with two sons, disappeared in December 2009.
She was 28 at the time.
Last month, police searched the home of her husband, Joshua Powell, who after speaking with investigators early on has stopped cooperating.
Josh, who says he last saw his wife when he took their sons for an overnight camping trip, suggested she may have run off with another man.