Police search for missing mother

Police are searching for a 26-year-old woman in a forest on Quebec City's south shore. Nathalie Godbout is a mother of two from Saint-Romuald who disappeared without a trace last fall. She has not been seen since September of 2000.

More than 20 Suret du Quebec officers, several police dogs and a few family members spent Thursday looking for the woman in a forest near her home.

SQ spokesperson, Anne Mathieu says police are looking for clues around the woman's house.

"We're concentrating our search near her residence because that's the last place where she was seen," she says. "So we're doing all the woods around the residence, about a few kilometres around the house."

Police have few details about what happened to Godbout before she disappeared. They know she argued with her live-in boyfriend the day she vanished. She left all her personal effects at home.

Mathieu says the police hope their search will turn up clues, but they would welcome outside help.

"We're still looking for information and we're still asking the public to collaborate to help us if they have any information to contact us and give us this information to help us find Godbout," she says.

Mathieu says the police hope their search will turn up clues now that the snow has all melted.