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Powell case landfill search completed

GRAHAM, Wash., Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Volunteers found papers and books belonging to Josh Powell and his missing wife at a Washington state landfill where he had dumped items, officials said.

The search of 20,000 pounds of paper at the landfill near Graham, Wash., where Powell was seen the day before he killed his two sons and himself also turned up a map of Utah, where his wife Susan disappeared in December 2009, KIRO-FM, Seattle, reported.

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"It took a lot of people a lot of time to look at every piece of it and pull out whatever we deemed to have any type of evidentiary value," said Detective Ed Troyer of the Pierce County Sheriff's Office.

The volunteers have completed the search.

Troyer said someone who knew Powell had told police he had dropped off a box of items at the landfill before igniting his rental home last weekend with himself and sons inside.

"We'll take what we have and analyze it and determine if it has evidentiary value or if it leads us to another location," Troyer said.

KIRO reported authorities found a blood-stained comforter last week in a storage unit Powell had rented and it was sent to a lab for testing.

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