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On a September day in 2008, a worker stumbles across a body at a Queensland dam. The man’s face is one of many that linger in the dark corners of forensic anthropologist Xanthe Mallett’s mind.
The old Missing Persons Unit was averaging 146 people a year that became long term missing. By last year that was down to 16.
The old Missing Persons Unit was averaging 146 people a year that became long term missing. By last year that was down to 16.
Monday’s This episode is introduced by Loren O’Keeffe, founder of the Missing Persons Advocacy Network. A litany of errors and a blatant lack of investigation by NSW Police has been laid bare during evidence at a recent coronial inquest into the disappearance of Ursula Barwick. The bubbly 17-year-old vanished without a trace in 1987. Her family dropped her to the train station on the NSW Central Coast, where she was headed to Sydney to start a new job. But they never saw her again. Police failures in Ursula Barwick’s case were first raised in an Australian Story program in 2019. Eviden...
News by Perry Duffin Premium Content Subscriber only 'Inexcusable' failures by the NSW Police to properly investigate a missing woman left her grieving family unable to mourn as she lay in a destitute grave under a wrong name for decades, the NSW Coroner has heard. Deputy State Coroner Derek Lee is conducting an investigation into four cases handled by the now-defunct police Missing Persons Unit. The unrelated disappearances of Gary Jones, Lionel Daveson, Christhof Meier and Ursula Barwick took years to resolve because - in at least one instance - there w...