Sweater found during search for Garden Hill teen Tammy Nattaway, missing for 2 years
CBC
A sweater believed to belong to Tammy Nattaway was found last month, near the two-year anniversary of the teen's disappearance from her northern Manitoba community.
Nattaway, 16, from Garden Hill First Nation, was last seen there in July 2020. Her family filed a missing persons report, and say they know she would not run away from her fly-in community about 475 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg that has no all-season road access.
Searches have been ongoing in Garden Hill and the nearby community of Wasagamack, where the sweater was found.
"When I see that sweater, I knew it was hers," Tammy's mother Stephanie Harper said.
"Right away I recognized it. I felt it. I knew it was hers. It was one she would wear all the time. I felt kind of at ease when they showed it to me. Kind of a relief. It was a warm feeling. That's how I knew it was hers."
The sweater has been turned over to police. RCMP said Tammy's disappearance is considered foul play and is an active investigation.
"The sweater remains as evidence as part of the RCMP investigation," RCMP media relations officer Tara Seel wrote in an email to CBC News.
"It will be forensically analyzed, which will take some time."
She said RCMP are not a part of the search in Wasagamack, but do stay "plugged in" to what is occurring on the ground in the community.
"We continue to receive tips, and all of those are followed up on," Seel wrote.
"Also, we are pursuing several different investigational avenues that we hope will help progress this investigation and find some answers for Tammy's family."
Search co-ordinator Floyd Mason from Wasagamack said they are working with RCMP and asked where they should be searchng.
"The only response that we got from them, [is] that they can't eliminate both communities," Mason said.
"They told us, searchers here in Wasagamack, to continue searching, and same thing with Garden Hill."
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