BOULDER, Colo. (KDVR) — The family of Megan Trussell, a University of Colorado Boulder student whose body was found in Boulder Canyon back in February, is now packaging essential hygiene items to distribute to the unhoused community.

They hope it will help advertise a $1,000 reward for any leads or tips on what happened. This comes after the Boulder County Coroner's Office ruled Megan's death a suicide.

Vanessa Diaz, Megan's mother, is challenging that saying she believes her daughter's case has been mishandled. She's hoping the care packages will help raise awareness about the 18-year-old's case and uncover new information she believes could bring her closer to the truth.

In just two hours, the community bought all the items on the wishlist. Originally, the family planned to hand out 50 packages, but now that number has quadrupled to 200.

If you ask Diaz how often she thinks about her daughter, she'll tell you constantly.

“She’s always here, the thought of her is always on my mind," said Diaz.

Life for her family hasn't been the same since Megan went missing from campus on Feb. 9, and then six days later her body was found on Boulder Canyon Drive.

Investigators say she died as a result of the toxic effects of amphetamine and exposure to freezing temperatures for several hours.

‘It's not a place where college girls go. It's not a hangout for them. It's dangerous, so it's baffling how she got there. On top of that, she only had one shoe," said Diaz. “To even get off the path to get to the spot that goes towards the culvert where her body was, next to under the highway, you have to know where you're going. She did not get herself there. There's no way. That culvert is so scary. The detective in charge of that investigation he didn’t go through it. I'm left to wonder if she was carried there.”

She has all of her daughter's information, documents and any updates documented in a binder.

"There's 66 reports altogether. More than 250 pages," she said.

She says every time she reads through them, she finds something new and appalling

“They never tested the fingernail clippings. They never tested the neck swabs. They never tested anything. Nothing so part of our next steps is demand that that be tested," said Diaz.

She's not alone. Sen. Janice Marchman, who represents most of Larimer County as well as Loveland, Estes Park and Berthoud, sent a letter to Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser earlier this month, seeking his office's attention to Trussell's death. She said that the circumstances surrounding the 18-year-old's death are concerning.

"While I recognize that, as a legislator, I do not have oversight over locally elected officials such as sheriffs or coroners, I do believe the state has a responsibility to ensure that forensic standards, investigatory protocols, and access to state-level resources - like the CBI - are equitably applied, especially in cases involving youth, vulnerable individuals, or suspicious circumstances," Marchman wrote to Weiser's office.

She said that the Boulder law enforcement's delay in requesting the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's involvement, despite the requests made by family and the community, in addition to a lack of clear protocols for ensuring minimum forensic procedures before ruling a death a suicide and lack of testing on forensic evidence, including a tarp, bruising and undigested pills, that Marchman said appear to have not been tested nor publicly addressed.

Diaz and her friend Leah Schultz-Bartlett started collecting essential hygiene items to package and give out to the unhoused community. They feel they may hold the answers to what truly happened to Megan.

“Our goal is also to provide information in those bags as well with a picture of Megan and information about the tipline," said Leah. " So, if anyone saw anything, knows anything, to report that and there will be some cash also involved for tips leading to any more information to help with the case.”

“There’s somebody, people out there, that knows what happened," said Diaz.

She says the detectives in the case didn't take the time to learn about her daughter.

"I think they looked at her hair, her eye makeup. She was a very original dresser. She had her own sense of style. I think there was some bias about her thinking, maybe she was a troubled teen and she absolutely was not," said Diaz. "She had no history whatsoever for self-injury or self-harm. She was a well-adjusted kid. She had her favorite thing. She was very close with her family.”

Diaz says the fight doesn't stop until she knows what really happened to Megan.

“That could be a long way off, it's a long wait for sure," said Diaz. "There’s cases that don’t get solved for 10-20 years. I don’t want that to happen. I'm working as hard as I can.”

The family plans to start putting the bags together next week and start distributing them in early July. There is an Amazon wishlist set up. If you also want to donate, you can do so by visiting the GoFundMe started for Megan.