Landfill search connected to missing Clay County woman expands

Jacksonville, FL — In day two of the search for evidence in Susan Mauldin’s disappearance case, the FBI revealed they have concentrated on a baseball diamond size area in the Chesser Island landfill located in Folkston, Georgia.

Dozens of people from the FBI, State Attorneys office, and Clay County Sheriffs office are helping in the search efforts that began Tuesday.

Experts from the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia and tech hazard units are assisting in the search.

The FBI said they preserved an area of the landfill early in the investigation at the request of the Clay County Sheriffs office. The FBI did not allow additional dumping in that area which is now being searched by case detectives.

The landfill is laid out in a grid pattern, trash can be traced back to a specific date, and location.

It has been the center of other local high-profile cases like Joleen Cummings, and Somer Thompson.

The search comes months after Mauldin disappeared in October. Neighbors told Action News Jax the last time they saw Mauldin she had plans to meet with Binderim.

Mauldin moved to the United States from England, neighbors said she had no children and lived alone.

This search is the first major break in the case since Corey Binderim, an unlicensed contractor, was named a person of interest in Mauldin’s disappearance back in November. He’d done work in her home, neighbors say there was a falling out over money.

Binderim was arrested on an unrelated fraud charge in Duval County.