Search resumes for missing girl in landfill

GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO - Investigators on Monday resumed their search for a missing girl at a landfill where her mother&#39;s body was found last week. <br> <br> Nearly a dozen people endured foul odors, high winds and searing heat as they sifted through tons of garage for 6-year-old Abby Blagg, who disappeared last fall. <br> <br> The search was not affected by a 4,500-acre wildfire burning north of Grand Junction, but officials worried wind gusts of up to 25 mph could cut the search short, as it did on Friday. <br> <br> Investigators remained hopeful but have found no clues since they identified the body of Abby&#39;s mother, Jennifer Blagg, in the dump on Wednesday. Police said she had been shot to death. <br> <br> ``If Abby is in the landfill and was in that same load of refuse, the bulldozers spread it out over quite a large area,&#39;&#39; said Janet Prell, spokeswoman for the Mesa County sheriff. ``Abby could be quite far from her mother.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Jennifer Blagg, 34, and Abby disappeared Nov. 13 from the family&#39;s home in Grand Junction. Michael Blagg told authorities he returned home from work to find a pool of blood in the master bedroom and his wife and daughter gone. <br> <br> Blagg was arrested Wednesday at his mother&#39;s home in Georgia for investigation of the murder of his wife. An extradition hearing was scheduled for Monday. <br> <br> Sheriff Riecke Claussen said trash found near Jennifer Blagg&#39;s body came from the manufacturing company where Michael Blagg used to work. <br> <br> Authorities said it could take weeks to finish sorting through the 7,000 tons of trash in the search area at the landfill. <br>

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