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For six excruciating months family, friends, strangers, and police searched tirelessly for Justin McKinnon-Blomme, a 21-year-old arborist.

After the blond young man got out of a friend’s car at the intersection of Southland Drive and Acadia Drive S.E. and disappeared on Sept. 24, 2014, police combed through hundreds of hours of surveillance videos, conducted formal searches and interviewed witnesses.

Family, friends and strangers distributed missing posters across the country, posted regularly on a ‘Help Bring Justin Home’ Facebook group, and raised thousands of dollars for a reward.

But no one looked up.

Six months and one day after he was last seen alive, McKinnon-Blomme’s body was spotted by a resident in a towering fir tree in the front yard of a home in the 9800 block of Alberni Road S.E., approximately 500 metres from the intersection where he was last seen alive.

Police say his death is not suspicious.

McKinnon-Blomme’s mom is questioning how police, who she said were aware her son worked as an arborist and loved to climb trees, were unable to locate him sooner.

“We went through six months of torture,” said Karleen Thibault on Sunday.

“We went through six months of torture because the police didn’t do their search job properly. I’m hurt. I’m angry. I could have had him home.”