Good find Tracecomp!
This is why the Ross' should contact the Morcombes'. They're very cluey hands on people and they would have compassion, answers and good advice.
The Morcombes have contacted many grief stricken families. They care.
DETECTIVES investigating the 19-year-old murder mystery of WA schoolboy Gerard Ross have been reinterviewing witnesses in recent months, The Sunday Times can reveal.
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A WA Police spokeswoman said Gerards abduction and murder was an active investigation with the Special Crime Squad, but refused to say whether a cold case review had taken place.
To protect the integrity of that investigation WA Police wont publicly discuss current lines of inquiry, she said.
The spokeswoman said police would only consider handing a homicide case over to the Coroner when all investigative opportunities had been exhausted or if the coronial inquest process would assist in providing other investigative strategies.
That is not the situation with this investigation at this point in time, she said
STANDING up in the stirrups atop a little chestnut colt, Mick Miller was trotting along a trampled path through the pines at Baldivis, south of Perth, when he saw something unusual out of the corner of his eye.
It was the morning of October 29, 1997 and business as usual for the horse trainer who had saddled up to take the first of five horses for their daily run around the plantation.
But this day, he took a track he rarely rode and cantered across “the last thing you’d ever want to see”.
“Seeing as I was a bit higher, you could pick that there was something to your right there, probably 100 yards away, that was a bit different to what you normally see with the branches and sticks and different things out that way,” he said.
When three officers arrived, he climbed into the back of the patrol car and directed them to the site where he had stumbled across a little boy’s barely concealed body, off to the side of the limestone track.
It was that of 11-year-old Gerard Ross, who had been abducted from Rockingham, 47km south of Perth, 15 days earlier.
Search title: No killer, no clues and no inquest into the murder of Gerard RossOne person of interest was written off early but came under renewed scrutiny when new information came to light. News.com.au does not know the nature of that information.
Police were ready to charge one local man after they found blood traces in his car and evidence that blood had been washed off a wall in a room at his home where he kept model aeroplanes. But the cleaning agent used prevented DNA from being extracted. Blood traces were also found at the suspect's parents' house.
The Director of Public Prosecutions wasn't satisfied there was enough proof to proceed with charges.
Detectives re-examined their suspect "with fine tooth comb multiple times" but couldn't find that extra skerrick of evidence they needed to get the DPP across the line.
The case was complicated by the fact that there'd been a murder at the house previously, even though it had occurred on the grass outside.
Police also made mistakes. DNA at that time was still a reasonably new investigative tool and samples were contaminated.
I wonder if they are looking at the claremont setial killer for this ! Happened only 5 months after Ciara Glennon and sane brutality
I guess we will find out today:
http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/p...-gerard-ross-murder-case-20170117-gtsvgh.html
I guess it will be the afternoon for those of us in the Eastern States. Nevertheless, it will be interesting to hear about any progress police have made in the investigation into Gerard's disappearance and if, or when, an inquest will be held.
Interesting timing IMO in light of increased WAPOL interest in areas well-known by POI for JR and CG
The timing is very interesting imo...You think they could be linked?
The timing is very interesting imo...
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