Thanks for the links, SA and soso. Subsequent MSM articles (post-April 2015):
William Tyrrell: Police work on 600 persons of interest in suspected abduction investigation
Ava Benny-Morrison
The Sydney Morning Herald
September 11 2016
'Last year a photo came across the desks of NSW detectives showing a young boy and a woman in a McDonald's in Central Queensland.
The boy looked eerily similar to William, and the woman he was with looked like his grandmother, Natalie Collins.
William's complicated background prevents reporting of certain aspects of his family life. However Ms Collins is not the grandmother who lived at the Kendall house where William disappeared from.
Fairfax Media reported last year that the hopes of detectives were dashed when police on the ground in Queensland confirmed the mother and boy were not who they hoped.
Ms Collins had already been tagged as a person of interest in the investigation, a suggestion she strenuously disputes.
The Sydney woman said she didn't know where William was staying at the time he disappeared or that he was going to be in Kendall.
"I didn't know, I wouldn't have a clue," she said.
"Who would have known what day he was going to be there and when he was playing outside?"
Ms Collin's friend, Kim Loweke, told A Current Affair in August that police visited her and asked if she was hiding William after they found out she intended to move into a three-bedroom house with Ms Collins.
"Why would I do that, seriously? If someone had him, I wouldn't hide him, I would show the world," Ms Collins said.'
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William's parents have been previously ruled out of their son's disappearance as has his grandmother, who moved out of the Kendall area after the unfathomable crime was carried out in her backyard.'
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/william-t...-abduction-investigation-20160906-gr9n80.html
and:
William Tyrrell investigation: highs, lows and false hope 12 months on
Ava Benny-Morrison
The Sydney Morning Herald
September 6 2015
'After months chipping away with no breakthrough, a photo came across the desks of Strike Force Rosann detectives.
It was well-focused and sharp, despite being hastily captured by a member of the public.
There was no denying the baby face in the image looked heart-stoppingly similar to William Tyrrell.'
'
With the child was a woman with a chilling resemblance to someone police investigating three-year-old William's abduction had been interested in.
The photograph, captured in central Queensland, filled investigators with hope.
Detectives had finally found the little boy in the Spiderman suit whose disappearance had captivated Australia, they thought.
They went to sleep that night in
June [2015], comforted by the thought they were about to pluck the boy from harm and place him back into his parents' arms.'
'The next day detectives on the soon-to-be 12-month investigation and senior police were briefed at the State Crime Command in Parramatta.
They were liaising with their Queensland counterparts about how William's extraction would play out.
Flights were about to be booked.
Then at the last minute, word from the ground reached investigators and obliterated their hope –
it wasn't William.'
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/william-t...-false-hope-12-months-on-20150903-gjenjz.html