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“It is hard to imagine a greater litany of errors in an investigation,” the family says in the letter.

The family goes on to question the conduct of investigators in dealing with relatives, alleging that when asked by two of the missing woman’s children for an update, a member of Regina Police Service told them the search had been called off, and the body likely consumed by coyotes.

“What child would not want to hear this from a police officer in the middle of this terrible stressful situation?” the letter asks.

At the time she went missing, Alison Campbell, Judy’s daughter, said the family was worried as her mother had been going through a low period, and they had found a note that indicated she might be readying to harm herself.

In Facebook posts the family asked — having been told of the North Battleford phone “ping” — that people keep an eye out for Campbell in North Battleford, Lloydminster, Bonnyville, Meadow Lake and Edmonton (the family has connections in the latter).

The family says that although a text may have been traced to North Battleford around 3 p.m. on the day she disappeared, surveillance footage showed Campbell filling up her vehicle on the east side of Regina at 11 a.m. that morning, and she was in fact on her way to Swift Current. The family also notes an earlier text from 12:49 p.m. returned matches to an area between Regina and Swift Current, but allege that this was initially ignored by authorities as the later North Battleford text was prioritized.