Detectives hopeful of physical evidence in new William Tyrrell searches
Police and external experts will search three new areas in Kendall on the state’s Mid-North Coast in a renewed search effort for missing boy William Tyrrell.
Then aged three, William vanished from his grandmother’s front yard in September 2014. He has never been seen again, and nobody has ever been charged over his disappearance and suspected murder.
William Tyrrell vanished in 2014 dressed in his Spider-Man suit.
“We are looking for the remains of William Tyrrell,†State Crime Commander Detective Chief Superintendent Darren Bennett told reporters on Monday.
On Monday, Strike Force Rosann detectives will begin a “high intensity†search lasting several weeks that will cover an area on the remote Benaroon Drive â€" the street from which William vanished â€" which will begin with officers scouring the area in a grid search and will on Tuesday involve chopping down trees.
Police insist that the new search was facilitated by fresh information, and is unrelated to Cleo Smith’s disappearance.
It is not expected that the little boy’s body will be found in the coming days, and police expect to be in the town for several weeks.
An inquest in the NSW Coroners Court, which has not yet delivered findings, has examined William’s disappearance and suspected death.
In June, on what would have been William’s 10th birthday, detectives pledged to ensure that “no stone is left unturned†in solving the mystery, in what has long been regarded as one of Australia’s most baffling missing persons cases.
No physical evidence of what happened to William has ever been found, although hundreds of persons of interest have been investigated over the years.
In October last year, the police’s lead investigator of William’s disappearance, Detective Chief Inspector David Laidlaw â€" who replaced Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin when he was sensationally stood down for illegally recording a conversation with a person of interest â€" told the inquest that police will “never†give up on finding out what happened to William.
Police suspect William vanished due to human intervention.
It was initially thought that he had simply wandered off. In the hours and days after his disappearance, hundreds of volunteers and emergency services workers searched in forests, creeks and paddocks but found no trace of him.
Strike Force Rosann detectives have combed through vast amounts of information in the years since William disappeared, including searching in bushland and examining multiple persons of interest.
A $1 million reward is in place for anyone who provides information leading to William being found.
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