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June 1-12
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1 June - Search
For More Clues In Janine Vaughan Disappearance
Police searched
areas around Bathurst for further clues that might solve the disappearance
of Bathurst woman Janine Vaughan. About 4am on 7 December 2001, 31-year-old
Janine Vaughan was walking in Keppel Street, Bathurst near Machattie Park,
about 40 metres ahead of a group of friends. A bright red four door sedan,
mid to late 1990’s model, of a similar size and shape to a Mitsubishi Magna
or Toyota Camry, did a ‘U’ turn pulled up along side of her. Janine entered
that vehicle and she has not be seen or heard of since. Strike Force Toko
Commander, Detective Inspector Paul Jacob said the inquiry into Janine’s
disappearance has been a difficult and emotional time for Janine’s family
and the investigators. Janine’s uncle, Jeff Vaughan, said all his family
wanted was some information that would allow police to find out what happened
to Janine. “All we ask is that people, who might have been in Bathurst
last December, to think back and if they saw anything out of the ordinary
to contact police,” Jeff said. “We just need to hear something, anything
from anyone to help us through this time in our lives.” Anyone with information
on Janine Vaughan’s disappearance is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on
1800 333 000. All information will be treated in the strictest of confidence.
Source:
Police
Media Release June 1st 2002.
4
June - Missing Townsville boy
Police and
State Emergency Services volunteers searched an area near Townsville for
a six-year-old boy who was reported missing about 6pm on June 3. About
40 volunteers and police, including police dogs, searched near Mt Low,
about 15km north of Townsville, for Tyson Ellevson. Tyson’s
parents noticed he was missing about 5.15pm yesterday and called police
soon after. The searchers worked through the night and continued in the
morning. Tyson was last seen wearing a t-shirt and a pair of shorts and
has a medical condition which may affect the way he communicates. Anyone
who has information about Tyson’s whereabouts is asked to call Townsville
Police on 4760 7777. Source:
Police
Media Release June 4, 6.25am
5
June - Missing Man, Campbelltown
Campbelltown
Police have appealed for public assistance to locate a missing man who
has not been seen since leaving work unexpectedly on Monday morning. Allen
Roy Calderon a 51-year-old Bradbury resident arrived for work at
Chatswood on Monday morning before suddenly leaving again. Police and Mr
Calderon’s family have grave concerns for his welfare as his disappearance
is totally out of character. Inspector Mark Cook from Campbelltown Police
said a car Mr Calderon was driving has been located. “Police from The Rocks
located the missing man’s company car in a Kent Street carpark. There was
no evidence to suggest that Mr Calderone had met with foul play. “Mr Calderone
is described as being of white/European appearance about 180cm tall, 150kg
of heavy build. He has brown hair, going grey and brown eyes. “When last
seen Mr Calderon was thought to be wearing dress pants and a business shirt.
“We urge anyone with information about Mr Calderones’ present whereabouts
to contact Campbelltown police on (02) 4625 7844,” Inspector Cook said.
Source:
NSW
Police Media Release 5/6/02
7
June - Missing Qld Man
Police, State
Emergency Services volunteers and local council workers were searching
an area in the White Rocks Environmental Park for a 50-year-old man who
was reported missing about midday on June 7. Volunteers and police, including
police trail bike riders, searched the park at Redbank Plains for Mr Ken
Ironside. Mr Ironside’s carer noticed he was missing about 10am,
searched the immediate area and called police a short time later. Mr Ironside
was last seen wearing a blue polo shirt with a stripe across the front,
a pair of blue shorts with a stripe and white and blue joggers. Mr Ironside
has a medical condition which may affect the way he communicates. Anyone
who has information about Mr Ironside’s whereabouts is asked to call Goodna
Police on 3288-2999. Source:
Police
Media Release June 7, 3.15pm.
10
June
Missing pair's
car seized.
NewsHC
Police have seized the car of a missing NSW couple Kanniappa Raju
40 and his wife Aruna Verma 35 from Port Kembla, who were
last seen at Browns Plains last week.
Source: The
Courier-Mail 10/6/02 p2
Police to
use mass DNA testing to nab backpacker's killer.
John Taylor,
PM. Source: ABC
News
11
June
Missing children
in Ingham
Police and
SES resumed a full-scale search for three children missing since June 10.
A sister and brother, aged 11 years and 8 years, respectively, and a friend
aged 10 years were last seen at 5.00pm on June 10. A search of nearby Cassidy
Creek and Forrest Beach failed to locate the children. Anyone with information
is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. Source:
Police
Media Release June 11, 2002 6.55am.
Police appeal
for help identifying two NSW men
Fairfield
Police investigating an armed robbery at Smithfield released photographs
of the two men they believe may be able to assist with their inquiries.
A/Crime Manager Sgt Gordon Bullock said the armed robbery occurred at a
tavern on Monday 3 June. Photos of the two men police believe might be
able to assist with inquiries are available by contacting the Police Media
Unit on (02) 9265 4200. Source:
Police
Media Release June 11
The Right
to know who we are
By Professor
Ross Fitzgerald. Families Minister Judy Spence next month will release
a community consultation paper on what her department claims is a
"comprehensive review" of the Adoption of Children Act 1964. Source:
The Courier Mail, 11/6/02, p11
12
June
Police to
DNA test suspect in Falconio case
AM - Wednesday,
June 12, 2002 8:10
LINDA MOTTRAM:
There's been a major development in one of the nation's most baffling police
mysteries. A man being held for murder in New South Wales is to be DNA
tested for a possible link to the abduction and suspected murder of British
backpacker Peter Falconio. The man was arrested earlier this month after
a Sydney man was stabbed to death but while police have gone as far as
arranging permission for the exchange of forensic information between the
Northern Territory and New South Wales, the family of Mr Falconio and of
his girlfriend Joanne Lees who escaped the person who attacked Mr Falconio
remains sceptical about the development. Ms Lees' mother has told a British
newspaper that the suspect looks nothing like the man her daughter described
to police. Rachel Mealey reports.
RACHEL MEALEY:
When Joanne Lees told her distressing tale of a late night abduction on
the lonely stretch of highway in the Northern Territory, the nationwide
search for the suspect began. Today almost a year since the mystery unfolded,
the intrigue has developed once again. It was July last year when the picture
Joanne Lees put together with police of a dark haired Caucasian man with
a thick moustache appeared in newspapers and on television screens across
the country. She told police the man owned a dog and drove a 4-wheel-drive
ute with a covered canopy.
JOANNE LEES:
I am feeling positive and strong and believe it's only a matter of time
now before the man responsible for what has happened to Pete and myself
is caught. I am confident that everything is being done and I'm hoping
one of these leads police are following up will lead to Pete being found.
RACHEL MEALEY:
But the nationwide search came to nothing and the investigation stalled.
Northern Territory police fought the accusation that the case had been
flawed from the start and offered $250,000 for information. This morning
the brother of Peter Falconio remains cautious about the development.
NICK FALCONIO:
Well they're hoping so as we're hoping so as well. We've been waiting now
a year now so you know we do hope that it is him.
RACHEL MEALEY:
Nick Falconio says his family has been waiting on tenterhooks for answers.
NICK FALCONIO:
The uncertainty's terrible. Yes every day there's something appearing in
the newspaper or on the news, just little bits and bats at least once or
twice a week. So every day or every week we're just waiting, it's just
a waiting game all the time.
RACHEL MEALEY:
In the Northern Territory the news has also been met with scepticism by
Les Pilton, the publican at Barrow Creek Hotel where Joanne Lees was taken
after she was picked up by a motorist.
LES PILTON:
There has been disappointments in the past and of course I would not like
to sort of jump to any conclusions straight away because it is an unconfirmed
report from the information and that I have to hand at the moment.
RACHEL MEALEY:
Police in both the Northern Territory and New South Wales says it's too
early to comment on the development. Source:
ABC
Radio
Chopper brings
Missing Kids in from the Cold
NewsHC
A rescue helicopter
plucked three children from the Queensland bush after a cold night in a
tree. The Ingham trio (Emma Van Dartel 11, brother Anthony
Van Dartel 9 and friend Sean Higgs 10) told a friend
they had run away and planned to walk more than 100km to Townsville. They
became lost soon after leaving home. Source:
Sholtz, N: The Courier-Mail 12/6/02 p10
Police have
released photos of Missing NSW couple
Fast News
NewsHC
Police have
released photos of NSW couple Kanniappa Raju 40 and his wife
Aruna
Verma 35 from Port Kembla. They were last seen on Sunday
June 2. Police said Mr Raju and the couples children drove to Queensland
in his Maroon Ford Raider four-wheel-drive. Police don't belive Mrs Verma
travelled with them. The children were left with a family friend at Marsden
in Brisbane's south but Mr Raju has not been seen since. Source:
The Courier-Mail 12/6/02 p8
No DNA match
for Falconio suspect
Northern Territory
police have confirmed a DNA test on a New South Wales murder suspect does
not match a DNA sample taken from the clothing of Peter Falconio's girlfriend,
Joanne Lees. New South Wales police carried out tests on a swab from a
man in custody in Sydney. He is on remand over another murder and was also
questioned over the disappearance of Mr Falconio. Source:
ABC NewsMail 12/6/02
NSW law delays
Falconio cross-check
Northern Territory
Police Minister Syd Stirling has revealed that foreign DNA samples taken
from Joanne Lees' clothing were distributed to all states for future matches
last August. But Mr Stirling says the laws dealing with forensic data in
New South Wales prohibit that state's police exchanging information with
Territory police. He says the law is a relevant factor in the case of the
man on remand for murder in Sydney, who has been linked to the disappearance
of British tourist Peter Falconio.
Mr Stirling
says an agreement between the Territory and New South Wales that will enable
the exchange of forensic data will be in place within two to three days.
He says the anomaly seems to concern DNA gained without permission and
the suspect in Sydney did not voluntarily surrender a DNA sample.
"There's nothing
the Northern Territory can do," he said. "It's a question at the New South
Wales end of them complying with the legislation that they have in place
in order to be able to check and match and double-check this DNA sample
from the Territory against the sample.
"This is particularly
the case where the sample has been gained on a non-voluntary basis, which
I understand it has." Source:
ABC NewsMail 12/6/02
International
News:
3 June - UK:
Australia agrees to inquest on Briton missing since 1970
By Kathy Marks
in Sydney. Billy Day was 23 when he sailed to Australia on
a £10 assisted passage in 1969. Billy Day was 23 when he sailed to
Australia on a £10 assisted passage in 1969. He planned to work his
way around the country and then return to England. But a year after landing
in Perth, he vanished. Thirty-two years later, Australian authorities have
finally agreed to hold an inquest, which Mr Day's family hope will shed
light on his fate. Due to be held in Sydney later this month, it will hear
that the Briton disappeared after meeting a man who went on to carry out
Australia's most audacious extortion. In a letter to his family in Ipswich
in 1970, Mr Day told them he was heading to Brisbane in a camper van with
an English friend, Peter Brown. They never heard from him again. Police
assumed he was one of countless foreigners who arrive in Australia and
lose touch with relatives. Brown's real name was Peter Macari. In May 1971,
he telephoned the Australian airline Qantas and said there was a bomb aboard
a Boeing 747 that was en route between Sydney and Hong Kong. He threatened
to activate it unless he was paid A$500,000 (then £234,000), and
said an identical bomb was hidden in a locker at Sydney airport. Army experts
found the airport bomb, which they said was capable of blowing up a plane.
Qantas paid the ransom in A$20 notes, a decision made without consulting
police. Macari then telephoned again and said there was no bomb on the
747. Police found a third of the ransom money hidden in an old butcher's
shop in Sydney. Macari and his Australian boyfriend, Raymond Poynting,
were arrested and pleaded guilty. Macari was deported to Britain after
serving nine years of a 15-year term. It was only when Mr Day's parents,
Jim and Betty, read a newspaper report about Macari's release that they
realised he was the man referred to in their son's letter. When interviewed
by Australian police, who flew to Britain at the family's request, Macari
denied having met Mr Day. In fact, he virtually assumed Mr Day's identity
before he was arrested, buying a Jaguar and plane tickets and opening bank
accounts in his name. Mr Day's family are convinced he was murdered because
he found out about the extortion plot. However, police never found enough
evidence to charge Macari. Jim Day died last year, aged 80, without finding
out what happened to his son. Billy's brothers, Trevor and Tony, who have
carried on the search begun by their parents, want the mystery solved for
the sake of their 79-year-old mother. "She's waited 30 years and deserves
to know one way or the other," said Trevor, who lives in Perth. Tony Day,
who lives in Ipswich, remembers his brother as quiet and hard-working.
"Bill was a good boxer too, so he could certainly handle himself," he said.
Billy travelled to Australia with a friend, David Burt. They explored Western
Australia for six months, then split up. Macari arrived in Australia a
few months later on a false passport, having served jail terms in Britain
for stealing cars and possessing unlicensed guns. A friend of Macari's,
Ivan Jay, later told police that Mr Day had been dropped off in Brisbane
to go his own way. The extortion case was later made into an Australian
film called Mr Brown. The coroner has decided not to call Macari, now 67
and living in Hampshire. Tony Day hopes the inquest may prompt witnesses
to come forward. He said: "Somebody knows something. You don't just vanish
off the face of the Earth." Source:
UK Independent 5/6/02
5 June, USA:
Salt-Lake City 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was taken from her home at gunpoint.
A $250,000 reward is being offered for information about her disappearance.
Victim Description:
14 year old girl, Hair: Blonde, Eyes: Blue, Clothes: red pyjamas, Height:
5'6" - 168 cm, Weight: 100 lbs - 45 kg.
Family, Searchers
Urge People Around Nation to Look for Missing Utah Girl http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,54851,00.html
Utah Police
Question, Release Man
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,54816,00.html
Search Widens
for Kidnapped Utah Girl
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,54710,00.html
$250,000 Reward
for Kidnapped Utah Girl
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,54600,00.html
11 June
Progress in
Search for Missing US Girl
FOX
News Police say they may already have interviewed a suspect.
Official
Family Web Site
UK: Two stabbed
as father 'snatches girl'
UK: Two men
are in hospital with knife wounds after a father snatched his daughter.
Two men are in hospital with knife wounds after a father snatched his daughter
in Nottinghamshire. The incident occurred on Tuesday when the man took
the three-year old girl from her mother's house in Calverton. He was chased
by two men on to the playing fields of the nearby Colonel Frank Seeley
School where a fight broke out. As a result, a 27-year old man has been
airlifted to hospital with serious knife injuries while another is being
treated for slash wounds. 'Life threatening A police spokesman said: "The
man ran off with the girl from her mother's house."
Source: BBC
News 11/06/02
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